— Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems.
Bahadur was previously chief technology officer at freelancing platform Upwork and a general manager for Alexa at Amazon. Bahadur also worked at Microsoft for a decade years and helped develop the Windows mobile operating system. He also spent ten years at Intel in engineering and management roles.
Sydney, Australia-based Appen has about 2,000 employees worldwide and its U.S. headquarters is in Kirkland, Wash. Bahadur will be based in the Seattle area.
–— Gennev, a virtual healthcare company for women in menopause, hired three new leaders.
- Penny Allen joins as vice president of product and engineering. She was previously vice president of engineering at REMAX and also worked at Keller Williams, REI and Nike.
- Alexandra Walton will be vice president of clinical operations. She is currently chief operating officer for telemedicine at Sound Physicians.
- Devon McGill joins as director of partnerships, moving from Amazon Care, where she was manager of client implementations. McGill was also a senior benefits manager at Expedia and a global benefits manager at PATH.
Gennev, which launched as Genneve in 2016, was acquired by Florida-based women’s healthcare company Unified Women’s Healthcare in October. Gennev provides telehealth services and products for women going through perimenopause and menopause and operates as its own health unit within the larger company.
Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry:
- DocuSign hired Marcello Majonchi, previously a general manager at Amazon, as vice president of product management. He is also a veteran of Facebook and Microsoft and a co-founder of 42N Advisors, a benefit corporation that supports Italian entrepreneurs building businesses in the U.S.
- Kate Winkler is no longer CEO of Ruby, a Portland-based virtual receptionist company that was recently sold to an undisclosed private company, Portland Inno reported.
