Tech Moves – Page 7 of 42

Sep 10, 2024, 6:00 AM

Microbiome and diagnostics startup Viome lands $25M and hires former Amazon leader as COO

Viome, a company selling microbiome products and health diagnostics, announced Tuesday that it raised $25 million from investors and hired… Read More

Sep 6, 2024, 7:58 AM

Tech Moves: Microsoft vet joins UiPath board; Trupanion names COO; and more

S. “Soma” Somasegar, a longtime former Microsoft leader, joined the board of directors at robotic process automation company UiPath. Somasegar,… Read More

Sep 3, 2024, 8:47 AM

Tech Moves: F5 chief product officer Kara Sprague named CEO at security company HackerOne

Kara Sprague, chief product officer at F5, was named CEO at San Francisco-based cybersecurity company HackerOne. Sprague spent the past… Read More

Aug 28, 2024, 9:41 AM

Tech Moves: Microsoft leader joins Shopify as CTO; StraighterLine taps Seattle tech vet as CEO

— Shopify hired one of Microsoft’s top engineering leaders as its new chief technology officer. The Toronto-based e-commerce giant called Mikhail… Read More

Aug 27, 2024, 6:00 AM

Tech Moves: Seattle tech vet named CEO at Vouched; Sana hires chief scientific officer

— Peter Horadan, a seasoned Seattle tech executive who was an executive at Avalara and later founded an accounting software startup… Read More

Aug 22, 2024, 1:26 PM

Tech Moves: Remitly’s new CFO; Zillow adds SVP; Aquagga CEO steps down; Proprio hires exec

Vikas Mehta knows how to assess the financial health of a business, having been a finance leader at companies including… Read More

Aug 22, 2024, 12:58 PM

Former Living Computers Museum director returning to Seattle to lead National Nordic Museum

Lāth Carlson, the former executive director of Seattle’s Living Computers Museum + Labs, is returning to the city to head… Read More

Aug 19, 2024, 6:00 AM

Gaming startup Mudstack raises $4M from top VCs, taps industry vet James Gwertzman as CEO

Mudstack is adding a veteran Seattle-based gaming exec as its new leader and raising capital from top venture capitalists as… Read More

Aug 16, 2024, 9:01 AM

Tech Moves: Avanade CEO to join Microsoft; Seattle gaming vet’s new project

— Pamela Maynard, the longtime CEO of IT services and consulting firm Avanade, is joining Microsoft in a new role… Read More

Aug 14, 2024, 10:49 AM

Tech Moves: TerraClear’s new CEO; CoreWeave hires ex-Oracle SVP; Amperity adds revenue chief

Devin Lammers, a longtime leader in the agriculture technology industry, joined rock-mapping and picking technology startup TerraClear as its new… Read More

Aug 13, 2024, 3:15 PM

Meet Margi Tooth, the new CEO at Seattle-based pet insurance giant Trupanion

We’re loving our pets more than ever. Driven in part by a pandemic boom in pet ownership, spending on animal… Read More

Aug 5, 2024, 1:54 PM

Tech Moves: Former GitLab exec Chris Weber joins Amazon’s Project Kuiper team

Chris Weber, former chief revenue officer at GitLab, has joined Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite business as its new vice president… Read More

Aug 2, 2024, 9:16 AM

Tech Moves: AI researcher Yejin Choi leaves Univ. of Washington and Allen Institute for AI

Yejin Choi, who was named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow and one of Time’s Most Influential People in AI for her… Read More

Aug 1, 2024, 8:00 AM

Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs recruits tech experts for new advisory board

Pioneer Square Labs is tapping some of Seattle’s leading technology researchers and innovators with the creation of a new advisory… Read More

Jul 31, 2024, 4:55 PM

Tech Moves: CFO shuffles at Remitly and F5; Flexport exec joins DoorDash; and more

Seattle-based digital financial services firm Remitly hired Vikas Mehta as its new chief financial officer, the company announced Wednesday. Mehta… Read More

Jul 31, 2024, 10:39 AM

Boeing chooses its next CEO — and he will reportedly be based back in Seattle

Opening up a new chapter in its century-long history, Boeing says its next CEO and president will be Kelly Ortberg,… Read More

Jul 24, 2024, 12:22 PM

Tech Moves: Impinj promotes execs; Zendesk hires comms vet; Qumulo founder leads new startup

Seattle RFID-maker Impinj announced new promotions and additions to its executive leadership team. Impinj on Wednesday reported revenue of $102.5… Read More

Jul 18, 2024, 8:09 AM

Longtime World of Warcraft leader John Hight named president at Wizards of the Coast

John Hight, a longtime exec at Blizzard Entertainment who led the Microsoft-owned gaming giant’s World of Warcraft arm, has joined… Read More

Jul 17, 2024, 3:13 PM

Tech Moves: Syndio hires LinkedIn product vet; Microsoft chief scientist joins Shutterstock board

— Mitali Pattnaik, a former head of product management and senior director at LinkedIn, joined Seattle startup Syndio as its new… Read More

Jul 9, 2024, 8:58 AM

Tech Moves: TiE Seattle names leader; ex-Flexport president joins General Catalyst in new role

— Prashant Mishra, a longtime Seattle-area tech leader and founder of Click2Cloud, was named president of TiE Seattle. Mishra founded Click2Cloud… Read More

Jul 9, 2024, 6:00 AM

Former Arista and Cisco exec Douglas Gourlay named CEO of data storage company Qumulo

To help settle into Seattle, Douglas Gourlay spent this past weekend watching Boys in the Boat, the movie depicting the… Read More

Jul 1, 2024, 1:53 PM

Tech Moves: Tomo co-founder steps down; Usermind co-founder joins Ironclad; ex-Google director back at Microsoft

— Carey Schwaber Armstrong, the former Zillow exec who co-founded real estate startup Tomo four years ago, has stepped down… Read More

Jun 27, 2024, 12:58 PM

Tech Moves: Google exec departs; Syndio adds engineering leader; JPMorgan CTO leaves F5 board

— Nimrod Vered, a longtime engineering leader in Seattle, joined Syndio as senior vice president of engineering. Vered was most recently… Read More

Jun 26, 2024, 12:57 PM

Microsoft chief brand officer, Xbox CMO departing; Google, Amazon execs join Redmond giant

Kathleen Hall, who spent 16 years at Microsoft and was most recently the tech giant’s chief brand officer, announced Wednesday… Read More

Jun 25, 2024, 2:02 PM

Former Amazon and Microsoft exec Marc Whitten named CEO at self-driving company Cruise

Marc Whitten, a longtime Seattle-area tech executive, was named CEO at Cruise, the GM-backed self-driving company. Whitten was most recently… Read More

Jun 20, 2024, 12:46 PM

Tech Moves: Superhuman hires CTO; Getty Images founder departs board; Xbox vet joins Unity

Chris Bee, a tech exec who previously worked at Lessen, Zillow, and Uber, joined AI email startup Superhuman as chief… Read More

Jun 14, 2024, 9:15 AM

Tech Moves: Former Amazon Prime Air leader lands at Torc Robotics; Microsoft vet joins Meta

Eric Berlinberg, who spent the past decade at Amazon and was a key leader on the company’s Prime Air team,… Read More

Jun 11, 2024, 9:00 AM

Tech Moves: Microsoft CVP joins Google; Remitly hires compliance chief; and more

— Digital remittance company Remitly hired Spyro Karetsos as its new chief compliance officer. Karetsos previously held the same role at… Read More

Jun 6, 2024, 1:58 PM

Tech Moves: Lexion leaders start new roles at Docusign; Spectrum Effect hires president

Docusign officially completed its acquisition of Seattle startup Lexion last week, and several former leaders at Lexion have new roles… Read More

Jun 3, 2024, 10:09 AM

Tech Moves: SheerID names new CEO; Pinecone adds COO; legal vet joins Docusign; and more

Portland, Ore.-based marketing verification startup SheerID named Stephanie Copeland Weber as the company’s CEO on Monday. She succeeds SheerID co-founder Jake… Read More