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Tech Moves

Serial entrepreneur David Bluhm returns to Medio

Typically, when founders leave companies, they never return. Or, if they do, they come back as CEO as was the… Read More

EA CEO John Riccitiello to resign as game maker seeks new leader amid weak results

Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello announced today that he’s stepping down from the game maker effective March 30. The company, which… Read More

Tech Moves: Opscode hires former Likewise CEO Barry Crist; Hulu changes; etc.

Barry Crist, the former CEO of Likewise, has joined Opscode as vice president of enterprise. He will report to CEO… Read More

Kate Matsudaira departs Decide, starts Pop Forms

Kate Matsudaira has left Decide.com, and started a new  company called Pop Forms that’s developing software to help employees and… Read More

Vittana founder Chakrabarti steps down as Lovell takes the helm

Kushal Chakrabarti is stepping down from the educational microloan non-profit Vittana, handing the reins of the organization over to Rebecca Lovell… Read More

Todd Sawicki’s next gig: Slovenian startup Zemanta

We’ve been wondering where Todd Sawicki would land ever since he stepped down from the chief revenue officer post at… Read More

F5 CEO John McAdam joins the board of Apptio

John McAdam is a man in high demand. The CEO of F5 Networks, the Seattle networking and software powerhouse, joined… Read More

Tech Moves: Drugstore.com vet takes helm at Allrecipes; Cascadia hires investment banking vet; etc.

Former drugstore.com vice president of e-commerce Stan Pavlovsky has been named president of Allrecipes.com, an appointment that comes after longtime… Read More

Marc Barros steps down from wearable camera maker Contour, says it’s time for ‘fresh legs’

Marc Barros is stepping down as CEO of Contour, the fast-growing Seattle maker of helmet-mounted cameras used in action sports… Read More

RealNetworks shakes up mobile business, hires former Dada CEO as division president

RealNetworks this morning announced a new president and a broader strategy for its newly renamed Mobile Entertainment Division. Max Pellegrini,… Read More

Report: Lisa Sharples to leave AllRecipes.com in March

Lisa Sharples is stepping down as the top chef at AllRecipes.com, the popular online recipe service that was acquired 13… Read More

Amazon Kindle VP Mike Nash makes leap to HP

Mike Nash, a former vice president at Amazon.com’s Kindle unit, has made the leap to HP where he’s now working… Read More

Startup incubator Upstart Labs adds new partners, looks to fill series A funding crunch

It sometimes feels like there’s a bit of incubator mania going on. In the past two weeks alone, we’ve written… Read More

Citing favorable tax rates, Flowroute moves HQ to Seattle from California

Flowroute, which provides wholesale voice-over-Internet services to businesses, has moved its headquarters from Southern California to Seattle. The company cited… Read More

OncoGenex finance chief resigns after ‘personal relationship’ develops with CEO

Michelle Burris, the chief financial officer at Bothell biotechnology company OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals, has resigned from her post after disclosing a “developing… Read More

Microsoft ‘data chief’ Ted Kummert leaves after 23 years, joins Madrona Venture Group

After more than two decades at Microsoft, Ted Kummert is leaving the software giant to join Seattle venture capital firm… Read More

B2B startup accelerator 9Mile Labs taps Microsoft VP, veteran VC to lead the charge

Sanjay Puri thinks more needs to be done to help entrepreneurs in the Seattle region — one of the reasons… Read More

After Symform stint, Matthew Schiltz takes charge at cloud startup Tier 3

Seattle technology executive Matthew Schiltz has landed a new startup gig — just a week after he left cloud storage… Read More

The cat’s out of the bag: Former Cheezburger CTO Scott Porad joins dog sitting service Rover.com

In his previous life, Scott Porad ran the technical operations for one of the world’s largest cat blogs: I Can… Read More

Tech Moves: Hark hires a Bing vet; Vertafore bulks up; IV adds Duke scientist; etc.

Rajeev Chand has been named director of product development at Hark, the Seattle startup that distributes hundreds of thousands of sound… Read More

Venture capitalist Mark Ashida takes reins at cloud storage startup Symform

Well, here’s one job you can score if your venture capital firm starts to wind down: Take over the CEO… Read More

Tech Moves: Blake Cahill departs Banyan Branch; Red Russak joins Apptentive; and more

Blake Cahill has stepped down as president of Seattle social media agency Banyan Branch to take a new job at Royal… Read More

E-commerce vet Michael Smith named CEO of Full Circle organic food delivery service

Well, it is not quite an episode of Green Acres. But Michael Smith, the longtime e-commerce and Internet executive who… Read More

F5 names two new board members

F5 Networks has named Sandra Bergeron — a former executive at McAfee — and Steve Smith — the CEO of Equinix… Read More

Shares of Coinstar fall after CEO announces retirement

Shares of Coinstar, the Bellevue operator of the coin-counting kiosks and Redbox movie rental service, fell more than four percent… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow hires VP; Zac Cohn joins Liffft; Black Pixel rehires Square vet; etc.

Zillow has hired Chris Crocker as vice president of strategic partnerships, bringing 16 years of experience to the online real… Read More

Report: Microsoft buys Slingbox founder’s home entertainment startup

The tech press loves a good mystery. And one that we’ve been wondering about since news broke last week is… Read More

Update: Slingbox co-founder abruptly exits Amazon board as his new startup is sold

Updated at 2:56 p.m. with Amazon comment. Technology entrepreneur Blake Krikorian, best known for co-founding Slingbox maker Sling Media, has left the… Read More

Amazon is growing so fast it just hired a former member of the Presidents of the United States of America

Nope, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton aren’t joining Amazon.com. But the fast-growing Seattle tech juggernaut recently hired another former President.… Read More

Deutsche Telekom boss to step down at end of next year

Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of Bellevue-based T-Mobile, announced today that CEO Rene Obermann plans to step down by the end… Read More

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