—It has been a wild few weeks for HasOffers, which was removed from Facebook’s mobile measurement program after it ran afoul of the social networking giant’s privacy policies related to data collection. But the Seattle analytics startup is still growing, announcing that it has named Raif Hirt as chief revenue officer.
“HasOffers’ wild growth and success in the market makes (is) ripe for fast global expansion,” said Hirt. “It fills an extremely unique position as an unbiased 3rd party and pure technology play —really helping to scale this evolving mobile ecosystem.”
Hirt previously worked at DoubleClick where he held the title of vice president of operations and strategic partnerships and Glam Media where he served as vice president of global business development
“I see so many of the early indicators that I saw at DoubleClick here, and I can’t wait to bring more scale and operational strength to what are already phenomenal products,” Hirt added. HasOffers raised $9.4 million in venture funding from Accel Partners and others last year.
—New York-based Mycroft has established a new product innovation center in the Seattle area under the direction of Sebastien Fouillade, a former program manager at Microsoft. “As one of the technology hubs of the country, Seattle was an obvious choice to execute our vision for XSpectra,” said Mycroft CEO Jonathan Freeman in a press release. Mycroft, with operations in New York, St. Louis and Detroit, is a maker of IT security products. The new Seattle offices are located at 5400 Carillon Point in Kirkland. It marks the company’s first West Coast location.
—T-Mobile announced that James Perry, managing director of Madison Dearborn Partners, will not stand for reelection to the board at the company’s annual shareholders meeting. He made the decision after Madison Dearborn distributed all of its remaining shares of T-Mobile to limited and general partners.
—Globys, which specializes in data analytics and contextual marketing technologies, has named Jose Rojas as senior vice president of products and Joe Ollis as vice president of product development.
“We’re looking forward to tapping these innovative minds as we continue to address the big data needs across a variety of functional groups, including marketing, sales, and billing, by productizing the power of advanced data sciences, machine learning, and predictive analytics,” said CEO Derek Edwards in a release.
Rojas most recently served as head of operations at Seattle mobile startup Solavei, and before that worked at JPMorgan Chase as a payments executive. Ollis previously worked at Vest Me, Microsoft and INRIX.
—Hulu has named another former Microsoft vet as its chief technology officer. Tian Lim, a former senior vice president of product engineering at Sony Network Entertainment International who spent eight years at Microsoft Xbox, will lead the online video giant’s technology operations as it looks to grow its base of five million subscribers.
“Tian’s depth of experience working on the leading technology platforms and devices in the marketplace, will be invaluable as we scale and, simultaneously, continue to provide the best user experience possible across every platform – living room, mobile and web,” Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins said in a blog post.
Hulu maintains development offices in Seattle, but Lim will be based at the company’s headquarters in Santa Monica, California. Richard Tom, another former Microsoftie, previously held that role. He’s now working on a stealthy startup by the name of The Fremont Project, alongside former Hulu boss and Amazon.com vet Jason Kilar.
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