Tech Moves: B.C. startup Thinkific adds CMO from Hootsuite; Amplero founder departs Zulily — Vancouver, B.C.-based online education company Thinkific announced former Hootsuite executive Henk Campher as chief marketing officer. Based in Seattle,… Read More
Tech Moves: David Shim to lead Foursquare-Factual merged company; former Gates Foundation CEO joins Pfizer board; and more — Location data companies Foursquare and Factual are merging. The combined company will be led by Placed founder David Shim… Read More
Gates Foundation CEO stepping down from $47B philanthropy, handing reins to internal successor Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the physician and scientist who led the world’s largest philanthropy as CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates… Read More
Gates Foundation CEO donates her 5-year bonus to community center project run by ex-Seahawks star As CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann has seen firsthand how philanthropy can… Read More
Interview: Gates Foundation CEO on global progress in 2018, and the biggest threat to the world’s future As the CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sue Desmond-Hellman oversees the world’s largest philanthropy, on a mission… Read More
Gates Foundation announces $15M commitment to map neighborhoods that help kids out of poverty The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will commit $15 million to get a new initiative called Opportunity Insights off the ground.… Read More
Gates Foundation commits $158M to new 4-year effort to reduce U.S. poverty The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says it will commit $158 million over the next four years to fund research,… Read More
Podcast An ‘awesome year’? Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann has a radical view on 2017 It would be easy for Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to look back on 2017… Read More
Why a sewage survey gives the Gates Foundation’s CEO new hope for eliminating diseases through innovation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann thinks a Nigerian health officer’s work collecting sewage is “a thing of beauty.”… Read More
