Tech Moves – Page 7 of 38

Adam Wiener, Redfin president of real estate services, is departing

Longtime Redfin executive Adam Wiener is leaving the Seattle-based real estate giant, nearly 16 years after he joined the company.… Read More

Tech Moves: Seattle tech vet joins insurance tech company; Cyemptive Technologies adds exec

— Sonny Patel was hired by San Francisco-based insurance information technology company Socotra as CTO and CPO. She spent eight… Read More

Former Starbucks engineering exec joins education-focused AI startup that just raised $4M

Seattle-area entrepreneur and tech vet Ryan Bruels joined education-focused artificial intelligence startup Atypical AI as founding head of engineering. The… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Salesforce exec joins e-commerce startup Fabric as CEO

— Seattle e-commerce startup Fabric named veteran tech leader Mike Micucci as CEO. Micucci founded GroupSwim, a business networking startup… Read More

Tech Moves: Absci chief legal officer to depart; Cajal Neuroscience hires exec

— Sarah Korman, chief legal officer at Vancouver, Wash.-based biotech company Absci, will depart Sept. 15, according to a regulatory… Read More

Seattle tech exec Gordon Gardiner will face challenging task as OceanGate’s new CEO

A veteran of Seattle’s startup and investment scene, Gordon Gardiner, has been given the task of leading OceanGate through the… Read More

Tech Moves: Hootsuite adds CMO; Flexe appoints COO; Absci names CFO

— Hootsuite appointed Elina Vilk as chief marketing officer. Vilk previously worked as CMO at Woocommerce, an open-source e-commerce plugin… Read More

Tech Moves: Graham & Walker exec joins Seattle Storm; Union Bay founder lands new role

Rohre Titcomb scored a new role. Titcomb, previously COO and venture partner at Seattle venture capital firm Graham & Walker,… Read More

Industrial headset company RealWear names CEO

RealWear, a Vancouver, Wash.-based headset maker that serves frontline workers at industrial companies, named Chris Parkinson as CEO. Parkinson has… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft vet named CEO at EnterpriseDB; Adaptive CCO departs; Temporal hires ex-Hashicorp EVP

— Kevin Dallas, a longtime Seattle-area tech and finance executive, was named CEO and board member of Bedford, Mass.-based enterprise… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft president joins Google Cloud as VP; iSpot hires research chief; and more

— James Phillips, a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. Phillips… Read More

Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds IBM CFO to board; Tencent data science leader joins Seattle startup

—T-Mobile announced Thursday that IBM CFO James Kavanaugh joined its board of directors. Kavanaugh joined IBM nearly three decades ago… Read More

Tech Moves: Amazon names new leader of Amazon Music; Zendesk hires Google vet as CMO

— Amazon appointed Ryan Redington as GM of Amazon Music, leading the tech giant’s streaming audio business. Redington, a 15-year veteran… Read More

Autonomous vehicle startup Waabi hires another Seattle tech vet

Longtime entrepreneur and tech leader Joseph Sunga will join autonomous vehicle startup Waabi, part of a growing cohort of Seattle… Read More

Xbox’s Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb ‘taking a step back’ from Microsoft

Larry Hryb, better known to the Xbox player community by his gamer tag “Major Nelson,” announced Friday that he’s “taking… Read More

Tech Moves: SoundCommerce vet launches startup; Microsoft Federal leader departs; and more

— Diena Lee Mann, former senior vice president at Seattle startup SoundCommerce, launched a startup that aims to help business… Read More

Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud

Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.… Read More

Amazon Web Services hires former Flex and Intel exec Raejeanne Skillern as new CMO and VP

Raejeanne Skillern, a former executive at Flex and Intel, joined Amazon Web Services as its new chief marketing officer and… Read More

Tech Moves: Allen Institute for Immunology hires EVP; Microsoft CVP to depart; and more

— Allen Institute for Immunology hired Ananda Goldrath as executive vice president. The University of California San Diego professor of… Read More

Tech Moves: Madrona adds three new venture partners; DexCare hires exec; and more

— Seattle venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group announced it added three new venture partners: Loren Alhadeff, Mark Nelson, and… Read More

Tech Moves: Open-source software company Expanso names CEO; Highspot adds exec; and more

— Seattle tech veteran David Aronchick is the new CEO of Expanso, the company he co-founded to promote adoption of the… Read More

Convoy co-founder Grant Goodale to step down from trucking marketplace startup after 8 years

Grant Goodale, the co-founder of Seattle-based trucking marketplace startup Convoy, will step down from his position as chief experience officer… Read More

Former Spaceflight CEO Curt Blake joins law firm to focus on new space ventures

Spaceflight Inc.’s former CEO, Curt Blake, is joining the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati at a time… Read More

Tech Moves: Seattle startups hire new execs; board shuffles at Adaptive and Porch

— Seattle-area cybersecurity company Cyemptive named Ray McCay as its new chief revenue officer. McCay spent 25 years at Hitachi… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Philips CEO joins Absci board; AWS exec departs; and more

— Vancouver, Wash.-based AI drug design and development company Absci named Frans van Houten to its board of directors. A… Read More

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman leaves Expedia Group board ‘to focus on his other business interests’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped down from the Expedia Group board effective June 1, after helping the company get a… Read More

Tech Moves: Washington STEM names CEO: Former Nike exec joins Nordstrom board

Washington STEM, a nonprofit focused on statewide STEM education and social change, named Lynne K. Varner as its new CEO,… Read More

Tech Moves: Amazon fulfillment VP departing; former Pillpack co-founder joins VC firm

— Melissa Nick, a vice president of North America fulfillment at Amazon, is leaving the company after more than nine… Read More

Amazon confirms abrupt departure of AWS data center chief Chris Vonderhaar

The Amazon Web Services executive who oversaw the cloud giant’s massive network of data centers is suddenly gone, without explanation.… Read More

Tech Moves: Madrona investor joins Trilogy; Gamesight adds revenue leader: UW names provost

— Elisa La Cava joined Seattle-area venture capital firm Trilogy Equity Partners as principal. La Cava spent the past five… Read More