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Tech Moves: UW professor wins prestigious honor; T-Mobile board shuffle; and more

— Mary-Claire King, a groundbreaking innovator in genetics, has received The National Academy of Sciences’ most prestigious metal, the Public… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow promotes execs; ZoomInfo CTO resigning; ESS CEO steps down

— Seattle’s Zillow Group promoted two leaders to senior vice president positions. Michael Sherman is now SVP of Zillow Rentals.… Read More

Former Cruise CEO Marc Whitten joins Meta to run new group focused on humanoids

Marc Whitten, a longtime tech executive with roots in the Seattle region, has joined Meta to lead a new team… Read More

Tech Moves: Smartsheet names CTO; Outreach appoints CFO; Concord’s new CEO; and other hires

Cynthia Tee is now chief technology officer for Smartsheet. Tee was previously senior vice president of engineering at the Bellevue,… Read More

Convoy co-founder Dan Lewis joins Microsoft in exec role leading work on enterprise AI

Dan Lewis, the former CEO of shuttered Seattle trucking startup Convoy, has joined Microsoft in a chief product officer role.… Read More

Tech Moves: Google Cloud hires Microsoft exec Hayete Gallot in new president role; Impinj CRO retires; WSU names president

— Google named Hayete Gallot, most recently Microsoft’s corporate vice president of commercial solutions, to the newly created position of… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft poaches 3 AI experts from Google DeepMind; Rover names COO; and more

— Microsoft hired three former members of Google DeepMind, which was originally co-founded as a startup research lab by Microsoft’s… Read More

Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff is new CEO of Match Group family of dating apps

Spencer Rascoff, the tech veteran who co-founded and led Seattle-based real estate company Zillow Group, has been named CEO of… Read More

Tech Moves: F5’s first chief digital officer; Seattle-area EV charging startup acquired; and more

— Alvina Antar is the first chief digital officer for Seattle-based networking and security giant F5. Antar comes to the… Read More

Tech Moves: T-Mobile names COO; Algorithmia co-founders team up again; and more

— T-Mobile announced Srinivasan Gopalan as its new chief operating officer beginning March 1. Gopalan is a telecom vet who… Read More

Tech Moves: IMDb taps new CEO; Tagboard adds COO; SingleFile gets CFO; and more

— IMDb, the juggernaut of entertainment information, has a new CEO. Nikki Santoro has taken the helm from founder Col… Read More

JPMorgan Chase names new Seattle Tech Center leader as engineering hub grows to 380 people

JPMorgan Chase named a new leader of its Seattle Tech Center: Mamtha Banerjee, a computer scientist, business leader, and Seattle… Read More

Filing: Microsoft executive Chris Young resigns as business development and strategy leader

Chris Young, a tech industry veteran who joined Microsoft to lead its business development initiatives in 2020, turned in his… Read More

Tech Moves: ExtraHop’s new CEO; Gates Foundation shuffles its C-suite; Amazon vet joins CreatorsAGI

— Rob Greer is now CEO of Seattle cybersecurity company ExtraHop. Greer is ExtraHop’s third CEO since Patrick Dennis took… Read More

Tech Moves: Outreach adds CMO and CRO to C-suite; AWS vet joins Synthesia; and more

— Seattle sales automation company Outreach added two leaders to its C-suite: Chief Revenue Officer Nadia Rashid and Chief Marketing Officer… Read More

Microsoft’s former head of Windows and Devices design to lead Amazon Devices & Services design

Ralf Groene, a key figure in the design of Microsoft’s devices for more than 17 years, has emerged from a… Read More

Tech Moves: Smartsheet and Zillow add VPs; Zenoti hires CFO; Meta taps product leader

Eva Schoenleitner joined enterprise software giant Smartsheet as vice president of partner. Schoenleitner has extensive experience working in Europe and… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft chip VP goes to Google; WTIA gets exec chair; Era Software founder departs

— Rehan Sheikh, Microsoft’s vice president of silicon manufacturing, has left the company for rival Google. Sheikh called his almost… Read More

Tech Moves: Washington senator with Microsoft roots to lead Commerce Dept.; Remitly VP retiring

State Sen. Joe Nguyễn will become the next director of the Washington state Department of Commerce. Commerce manages economic and… Read More

Tech Moves: Expedia names CFO; former Microsoft AI VP leads new startup; Avante gets sales VP

Expedia Group has appointed Scott Schenkel as its new chief financial officer, effective in early February. Schenkel was at eBay… Read More

Tech Moves: Allen Institute names new VP; Nordstrom board member steps down; and more

Julie Harris has been appointed vice president of The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group at the Seattle-based Allen Institute. Harris… Read More

Cloudflare VP joins Statsig as chief revenue officer at fast-growing Seattle startup

William da Cunha, a longtime tech exec who was most recently a vice president at Cloudflare, joined Seattle startup Statsig… Read More

Former Amazon leader’s supply chain tech startup Auger names 11 execs after $100M Series A round

Dave Clark isn’t fooling around. Auger, the supply chain technology startup founded by the former Amazon Worldwide Consumer CEO, named… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft vet joins Expedia as new product chief; Avanade names president

Shilpa Ranganathan is back at Expedia Group as its new chief product officer. Ranganathan spent the past 16 years at… Read More

Tech Moves: F5 and Esper hire marketing leaders; Amperity adds chief revenue officer

— Seattle-based networking and security giant F5 hired John Maddison as chief product marketing and technology alliances officer. Maddison was… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Google director unveils investment management firm; Treasury4 names new CFO

— Manish “Manny” Sainani, a former Google product management director, recently launched Hushh Technologies, a startup that uses artificial intelligence,… Read More

Julie Sandler, managing director at Pioneer Square Labs, will shift to venture partner role

Longtime tech startup investor Julie Sandler plans to transition away from her role as managing director at Pioneer Square Labs,… Read More

Tech Moves: Former leaders at Qualtrics and AWS land CEO roles; VertueLab adds board member

— Jay Choi is now CEO of Typeform, a San Francisco startup helping companies create digital forms. Choi joins Typeform… Read More

WTIA CEO Michael Schutzler retiring after 11 years leading Washington state tech group

Michael Schutzler, CEO of the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), is retiring at the end of this year after more than a… Read More

Amazon hires former Microsoft and SAP exec Julia White as new AWS marketing chief

Julia White, a longtime Microsoft executive who spent the past four years at SAP, has been named the chief marketing… Read More