— Former Amazon Web Services and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. She is currently vice president of worldwide public sector and industries at AWS.
Carlson was promoted last year, following the departure of another AWS vice president Mike Clayville. At Amazon she oversaw the worldwide public sector business, along with sales to the healthcare and financial industries. Prior to AWS, she spent nine years at Microsoft leading sales to federal government agencies.
Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. The company’s revenue for the full year ended Jan. 31 was down 5% to $2.23 billion.
— Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis.
Burns served as CEO of Xerox for seven years and as chairwoman for another seven, stepping down in 2017. During the Obama administration, she helped lead the White House’s national STEM program.
Headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., Icertis is valued at $2.8 billion and sells its contract management software in 90 countries.
— Amazon’s former Head of Global Private Brands Marketing Elizabeth Solomon is now CMO at Overstock.com. Prior to Amazon, Solomon was vice president of marketing for Samsung Electronics America and held marketing roles at Walmart and Cadbury. She is based in Seattle.
“I’m excited about the opportunities ahead and helping further amplify Overstock’s reputation as the premier online shopping destination for home furnishings,” Solomon said.
— D2iQ, a San Francisco-based hybrid cloud startup, appointed former AWS executive Karl Triebes as VP of product.
Triebes is based in Kirkland, Wash., and was previously a vice president and general manager at Amazon Web Services. He was also previously CTO at network infrastructure and security technology company F5 Networks.
— Healthcare data startup Truveta, which emerged from stealth mode last year, announced Dave Heiner as chief policy officer and general counsel. Led by former Microsoft executive Terry Myerson, the Seattle-area startup also announced CMO Lisa Gurry will now be chief operating officer.
Heiner is the latest Microsoft veteran to join Truveta. He spent more than 25 years at the Redmond, Wash.-based company, most recently as a strategic policy advisor. He co-founded Microsoft’s internal AI advisory board.
“I’m grateful for the opportunity to help Truveta become a leader in ethical healthcare innovation,” said Heiner.
Truveta is building a platform with de-identified U.S. health data from its health provider partners including Providence St. Joseph Health. Myerson previously led Microsoft’s Windows and Devices Group before departing in 2018 after a 21-year career at the company.
— AI messaging platform LivePerson hired Monica Pool Knox as SVP and chief people officer. Pool Knox was most recently head of human resources for Microsoft’s global cloud and AI workforce. She previously held senior HR roles at Twitter, CBS Interactive and Sony.
— Investment data company Clearwater Analytics appointed Microsoft vet Suraj Poozhiyil as SVP of product. Poozhiyil spent two decades at Microsoft, most recently as partner director of product management for the Dynamics 365 Connected Store.
Based in Boise, Id., Clearwater Analytics currently has more than 1,100 employees. Poozhiyil is one of 25 employees who will be based out of the company’s Bellevue, Wash., office.
— Warehousing tech platform Flexe named Ian Charles as the Seattle startup’s first CFO. Charles most recently served as CFO for carpooling network Scoop Technologies.
Earlier this year the company extended its Series C round and is seeing huge tailwinds from an increase in online sales amid the pandemic.
— Seattle event technology company eventcore announced Tim Schmanski as vice president of product and alliances.
Schmanski was most recently the chief solutions architect at Certain, an events automation platform for marketers. In this new role, he will be responsible for technical and agency partnerships as well as eventcore’s product roadmap.
“As companies begin to bring in-person events back into their schedules, we know that all of the proper pieces need to be in place to ensure that the event management solutions behind them exceed expectations,” said Schmanski.
— Mapping startup Unearth Technologies hired Kristine Hopkins as VP of sales and marketing. She most recently was a VP at Bluebeam, a construction collaboration technology company, where she worked for more than a decade.
— Cloud services provider BitTitan hired Khan Klatt as director of engineering. He was most recently VP of technology for global nonprofit Committee for Children and previously a senior director of web application engineering for McGraw-Hill Education.
— Bellevue, Wash.-based Blueprint Technologies promoted Melissa Benton to chief of staff. Benton joined the technology consulting firm last year as managing director of operations.
