Tech Moves – Page 13 of 38

Tech Moves: Accolade HR chief departs; Seattle startup Membrion adds advisor; and more

— Seattle HR executive Britt Provost departed health benefits platform Accolade and joined marketing software company Siteimprove as its first… Read More

Gregory Davis becomes Eviation’s interim CEO with electric aircraft’s first flight coming up

Arlington, Wash.-based Eviation says Gregory Davis is assuming the role of interim CEO as part of a planned succession process… Read More

Tech Moves: Indeed hires Zillow economist; Impinj names COO; Amazon vet joins Fabric; more

— Former Zillow Chief Economist Svenja Gudell is now chief economist at Indeed, leading the job search engine’s research team.… Read More

Amperity CEO Kabir Shahani steps down

Amperity CEO Kabir Shahani has relinquished the CEO title at the fast-growing Seattle startup, a move that comes seven months… Read More

Wizards of the Coast taps former Microsoft and Amazon leader Cynthia Williams as president

Hasbro announced on Thursday morning that it has appointed Cynthia W. Williams as the new president of its Wizards of… Read More

Electric aviation pioneer Roei Ganzarski plots a new course as CEO at Alitheon digital ID venture

Less than a month after announcing his departure from leadership roles at two electric aviation companies, Roei Ganzarski is embarking… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft finance leader joins EA; Greater Seattle Partners hires CEO; and more

— Electronic Arts (EA) announced Chris Suh as its new CFO effective March 1. Suh is currently CVP and CFO… Read More

Tech Moves: Qualtrics adds new board members; Adaptiva names CPO and CFO; and more

— Publicly-traded software company Qualtrics added Omar Johnson and Ritu Bhargava to its board of directors. Johnson is a marketing… Read More

CytoDyn CEO ousted after year of lawsuits, FDA rebuke, ongoing investigations

Nader Pourhassan has been ousted as CEO and president by the board of directors of embattled Vancouver, Wash.-based CytoDyn, the… Read More

Tech Moves: Tableau’s new data chief; Outreach, Trulioo add CPOs; Gemini recruits CTO from AWS

— Microsoft alum Wendy Turner-Williams is now chief data officer at Tableau. She joined from Tableau’s parent company Salesforce where… Read More

Tech Moves: Washington STEM names new CEO; Conversica and Iterable hire marketing vets

— Washington STEM announced Milton Lang as the education nonprofit’s new CEO. He has a doctorate in higher education administration… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Lyft, Remitly exec named PCC CEO; Leafly adds engineering leader; and more

— PCC Community Markets announced Krishnan “Krish” Srinivasan, a former finance executive at Lyft and Seattle startup Remitly, as its… Read More

Tech Moves: OfferUp names new CTO; Amazon data center leader departs; and more

— Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. Binde previously held senior… Read More

Tech Moves: Life Science Washington names new CEO; AWS exec departs; Vizio CTO retires

— Life Science Washington announced Marc Cummings as its new CEO and president. He was most recently the trade association’s… Read More

Tech Moves: Adaptive CFO to resign; Meta comms exec departs; AI vet joins Absci board; new Zymeworks CEO

— Chad Cohen will step down as CFO of Adaptive Biotechnologies on Feb. 15. Prior to joining Adaptive in 2015,… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow hires Nike exec as first design chief; Allen Institute has new CEO; and more

— Zillow Group named Jenny Arden as the Seattle-based real estate company’s first chief design officer. She was most recently… Read More

Tech Moves: Leafly announces new board ahead of SPAC merger; Amazon vets depart; and more

— Leafly announced its new six-member board of directors whose appointments will be effective after its pending SPAC merger with… Read More

Tech Moves: Highspot adds executives; Blue Origin vets depart; Disney hires former Microsoft exec

— Enterprise sales startup Highspot appointed four new executives: Arvind Prakash as VP of product management. Most recently VP of… Read More

Amazon consolidates healthcare groups under veteran exec, shakes up pharmacy leadership

Amazon senior executive Neil Lindsay, a key figure in the growth of the company’s Kindle and Prime businesses, has been… Read More

Senate confirms longtime Microsoft leader Kurt DelBene as CIO at Dept. of Veterans Affairs

— Former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene was confirmed on Thursday by the Senate as the CIO and assistant secretary for information… Read More

Tech Moves: Madrona adds strategic directors; ex-Amperity CMO joins Tenable; Discord hires Microsoft gaming exec

— Seattle startup vet Brian Goldfarb was named chief marketing officer at Tenable, a Columbia, Md.-based cybersecurity company. He was… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Outreach CMO joins Fastly; SmartRecruiters adds ex-Tableau SVP; and more

— Fastly named Margaret Arakawa as chief marketing officer of the publicly traded San Francisco-based cloud network provider. Arakawa spent nearly 20… Read More

Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

— Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade… Read More

Social TV platform Scener adds Hulu’s David Baron as CEO and filmmaker J.J. Abrams as investor

Scener, the Seattle-based startup that adds a social layer to the viewing of streaming television content, has named David Baron… Read More

Seattle startup 98point6 appoints Jeff Greenstein as permanent CEO following leadership shuffle

98point6 chairman Jeff Greenstein is now the company’s permanent CEO after taking over interim leadership duties following the departure of… Read More

Tech Moves: Lyft hires CFO from Amazon; Tomo adds CMO; Gopuff taps more Seattle talent

— Tomo, a new real estate startup led by ex-Zillow leaders, announced Sarah Makar as CMO. She is also a… Read More

Longtime Amazon retail exec joins REI as its first chief commercial officer

REI Co-op on Wednesday announced the hiring of Amazon veteran Cameron Janes as its new senior vice president, chief commercial… Read More

Tech Moves: Accolade appoints execs; Vacasa adds board member ahead of SPAC deal; and more

— Health benefits platform Accolade hired Carolina Lobo as chief marketing officer and Eve Stacey as chief customer officer. Lobo… Read More

Tech Moves: Booster hires ex-UberEats leader; First Mode expands C-suite; and more

— Booster, previously known as Booster Fuels, hired former Amazon and Uber VP Adrian Agostini as chief revenue officer. He… Read More

AI2 CEO Oren Etzioni to chair UiPath’s new AI advisory board

UiPath, a publicly traded “robotic automation process” company, announced that Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) CEO Oren Etzioni will… Read More