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India’s Flipkart recruits three high-level execs from Amazon, Microsoft and Google

Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce site founded by two former Amazonians, has hired three top executives, including one from Amazon, to continue… Read More

Getty Images taps former Yahoo exec and media veteran Dawn Airey as CEO

Getty Images has named Dawn Airey as its new CEO, replacing co-founder Jonathan Klein who is moving to the role… Read More

Tech Moves: Marchex bolsters executive lineup; IP law firm expands; and more

—Marchex expanded its executive team to include a new chief revenue officer, Gary Nafus, and new senior vice president of customer… Read More

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: Paul Maritz steps down as Pivotal CEO; Reddit hires its first CTO from Pinterest and more

—Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz is stepping down, with Pivotal Labs co-founder Rob Mee succeeding him in the position. The data analytics, cloud… 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

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

Former Clearwire CEO Erik Prusch takes top job at Outerwall, owner of Redbox

Outerwall, the company known for operating Coinstar and Redbox kiosks, announced on Friday it has named former Clearwire chief Erik… Read More

Tech Moves: Marcelo Calbucci departs EveryMove; Microsoft Azure vet joins satellite imaging startup

—EveryMove co-founder Marcelo Calbucci has stepped down as CTO of the Seattle health and fitness company nearly five years after… 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

Tech Moves: Fred Hutch names new CIO; Startup vet John Pollard lands at Amazon

—The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center continues to add heft to its management ranks, announcing today Matthew Trunnell has joined as vice… 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

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

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: LiquidPlanner co-founder leaving to join startup, Conversica adds engineering head, and more

—Charles Seybold will be joining Academy.IO, a new early-stage business e-learning startup. He’s the co-founder of LiquidPlanner, and has worked at… Read More

Tech Moves: True Ventures founder named NVCA chair, F5 names HR head, and more

—True Ventures founder Jon Callaghan has been appointed the chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. Callaghan, who currently serves… 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

Tech Moves: Brian Goldfarb leaves Google for Salesforce, Kymeta names CEO and CFO, and more

—Brian Goldfarb became the senior vice president for platform marketing at Salesforce, where he will oversee marketing efforts for products… 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

Tech Moves: Intel VP Hank Skorny joins Neustar; Mike Foley’s new Bluetooth gig; Amazon hires Alaska Air pilot; and more

—Long-time Seattle executive Hank Skorny has joined Neustar as SVP of the Internet of Things (IoT). Previously, Skorny was at Intel in the Seattle… Read More

Tech Moves: Sandell leaves Tableau’s board; Lisa Chin to depart Year Up; and more

—Tableau Software revealed in a regulatory filing that Scott Sandell will not stand for re-election to the company’s board of directors. Sandell, a… Read More

Apptio CFO departing for new gig at Fortune 50 tech company

Apptio CFO Sean Boyle is stepping down after 16 months on the job, leaving for an undisclosed finance executive position… Read More

Tech Moves: LivingSocial adds former eBay exec to board; TV news anchor joins Amazon; INRIX taps CMO; etc.

—LivingSocial, the Washington, D.C.-based daily deals company, has appointed former eBay executive Lorrie Norrington to its board, where she will serve as an… Read More

Tech Moves: Vern Fotheringham named CEO of satellite venture; Paul Shoemaker leaving SVP after 17 years; and more

—Telecommunications entrepreneur Vern Fotheringham has been named CEO of Leosat, an Arlington, Virginia-based company developing a constellation of low-earth orbit… Read More

Tech Moves: Trulia’s Chief Economist Departs; eBay names new Seattle GM; etc.

—Trulia Chief Economist Jed Kolko has left the company following its acquisition by Zillow last week. According to an internal email… Read More

Tech Moves: Tune gets new engineering VP; Flock founder lands at Whitepages; Skytap taps HR vet

—Fresh off last month’s $27 million venture capital round, Seattle mobile marketing analytics startup Tune has named Steve McQuade as… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Microsoft exec takes U.S. CIO job, Placed gets new engineering VP, and more

—Tony Scott has been named the Chief Information Officer of the United States. He was most recently the Chief Information Officer… Read More