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Tech Moves: RealNetworks director resigns; Lovell takes new startup role with City of Seattle; Alice in Chains rocker joins Smashing Ideas; and more

— RealNetworks announced this week that John Cunningham has resigned from the company’s board, effective Sept. 2. The decision to leave… Read More

Tech Moves: Airbnb hires former Clinton adviser; Auth0 adds new board members

—Airbnb appointed Chris Lehane as head of policy. Lehane served in the White House for six years as an advisor to Bill Clinton… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Microsoft exec steps down from Tinder as founder Sean Rad returns as CEO; REI names CIO; and more

—Founder Sean Rad is returning to his role as CEO of Tinder, replacing current CEO Chris Payne, a Microsoft and eBay veteran.… Read More

Former Zillow CFO Chad Cohen lands at Adaptive Biotechnologies

Chad Cohen, who left the CFO gig at Zillow last month after nine years at the online real estate company, has… Read More

Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. names former Google exec as new technology chief

Vulcan Inc. has named a former Google executive, Ravi Jain, as its new chief technology officer, responsible for leading technology… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow promotes Kathleen Phillips to CFO, Amy Bohutinsky to COO; Shauna Causey joins Galvanize; and more

— Zillow Group today announced two executive promotions, naming Kathleen Phillips as Chief Financial Officer and Amy Bohutinsky as Chief Operating Officer.… Read More

After reorganization, Microsoft’s Teper and Treadwell take new roles

There are still some moving parts in Microsoft’s senior leadership team one month after the company announced a major reorganization… Read More

Tech Moves: Cyanogen snags Amazon exec; Veghte named SurveyMonkey CEO; Ossia expands; and more

—Cyanogen, the makers of modified versions of Android for mobile devices, has snagged two executives from Amazon and Qualcomm to expand international… Read More

Expedia has a president again: Tech leader Aman Bhutani elevated to big role at online travel giant

Expedia today named engineering leader Aman Bhutani as the new president of its flagship Expedia brand and related businesses, taking over… Read More

Dave Parker takes reins at Seattle coding academy Code Fellows

Startup veteran Dave Parker is taking the reins of Code Fellows, the Seattle-based educational organization that teaches folks to code.… Read More

Facebook Seattle leader departs as company’s presence in city booms

Paul Carduner, the Facebook Seattle site lead, has left the company, just as Facebook gears up for a major expansion… Read More

Context Relevant CEO steps down as VC board member takes reins

Context Relevant CEO Stephen Purpura has stepped down from the heavily-funded big data analytics startup that he founded three years… Read More

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo steps down, Jack Dorsey back as interim CEO

Dick Costolo will be stepping down as CEO of Twitter on July 1. Cofounder and chairman Jack Dorsey will replace… Read More

Looking to spin off more startups, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center names new commercialization chief

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center helped spark a number of groundbreaking spin-off companies in recent years, from publicly-traded Juno… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Impinj CEO tapped for top post at AnswerDash; Microsoft marketing vet named Acumatica CMO

—AnswerDash, a spin-out from the University of Washington formerly known as Qazzow, has named former Impinj CEO William Colleran as… Read More

Porch hires new CFO, Bob Barton, who helped Drugstore.com go public

Home improvement data startup Porch has hired a new chief financial officer, Bob Barton, whose experience includes helping Drugstore.com go… Read More

Tech Moves: Foursquare exec Rob Wilk named Microsoft search sales VP; VoiceBox adds speech recognition experts; etc.

—Rob Wilk, who previously served as vice president of sales at Foursquare, has joined Microsoft as vice president of search sales and… Read More

Susannah Malarkey setting sail after 20 years at the helm of the Technology Alliance

In 1995, Bill Gates Sr. asked Susannah Malarkey to lead an effort to study the health and vibrancy of the… Read More

Tech Moves: Tableau taps statistician to bolster R&D push; WildTangent picks CEO

—Tableau, the Seattle-based maker of visual analytics software, named Leland Wilkinson as vice president of statistics. “Lee is one of… Read More

Tech Moves: Startup vet Zachary Cohn joining 18F in D.C.; Rightside taps former Socrata exec as marketing VP; etc.

—Arriving in Seattle five years ago, Zachary Cohn plugged himself into nearly every facet of the startup community. A past GeekWire… Read More

Tech Moves: Frey named CTO at Redfin; Skytap taps HP vet to lead London office

—Redfin has promoted Bridget Frey to CTO, replacing Sasha Aickin who stepped down from the position last December. Frey joined… Read More

Seattle cloud startup Azuqua inks lease in Pioneer Square, taps new marketing chief

Azuqua, a fast-growing Seattle startup that helps businesses connect different cloud services to each other, has inked a lease for… Read More

Longtime exec Kurt DelBene returns to Microsoft, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella

Kurt DelBene, the former Microsoft Office Division president, is returning to the Redmond company. Microsoft just announced the news. DelBene will… Read More

Ex-Amazon exec Brian Valentine leaves Ivy Softworks, looks for big impact at food waste startup

Brian Valentine was at the forefront of two of the most important technological waves of the past 30 years, serving… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Nike CIO joins bitcoin startup; Qumulo, Zumobi, LiquidPlanner add sales leaders; and more

— Qumulo, the Seattle enterprise data storage startup that raised $40 million in February, today appointed Mark Bennetts as the… Read More

Former Twitter developer relations head Jeff Sandquist returning to Microsoft as a GM

Jeff Sandquist, who recently left his job as Twitter’s head of developer relations, is returning to Microsoft, where he will… Read More

Google hires new CFO: Morgan Stanley’s Ruth Porat, ‘the most powerful woman on Wall Street’

Google filled the position of chief financial officer this morning with a big name in the world of finance: Ruth… Read More

Microsoft hires Forrester analyst James Staten as chief strategist in Cloud & Enterprise group

James Staten, a veteran industry analyst who covered the cloud computing market for Forrester Research, is joining Microsoft as chief strategist… Read More

Amazon hires former White House press secretary Jay Carney as senior exec, reporting to Jeff Bezos

Amazon has hired Jay Carney, the political commentator and former White House press secretary, as senior vice president for Worldwide… Read More

Twitter developer relations head Jeff Sandquist leaving company, returning to Seattle area

Jeff Sandquist, who joined Twitter a year-and-a-half ago to head up the social network’s developer relations initiatives, is returning to… Read More