— Sanjay Parthasarathy, a longtime Seattle tech executive who was most recently chief product officer at Avalara, has stepped down from the tax software giant.
Parthasarathy joined Avalara in 2019 after the company acquired his product data startup Indix.
Avalara, which went public in 2018, was acquired late last year by Vista Equity Partners in a $8.4 billion deal. The company reportedly went through layoffs last month.
Parthasarathy was previously a longtime exec at Microsoft, where he held a corporate vice president role.
In a blog post, Parthasarathy said he now has “some time now to do what I want” and plans to write about memories from his days playing cricket.
— Sanjay Puri, another exec at Avalara, also recently left the company.
Puri joined Avalara in 2017 as a vice president in marketing. He was most recently managing the integration of the company’s acquisition of Transaction Tax Resources.
Puri previously spent time at Microsoft, HP, and Edifecs. He helped launch the 9Mile Labs startup accelerator in 2012.
“I learned more about sales tax than I ever thought I wanted to know … in a company that grew from $150M to a $1B+, went from private to IPO to private … through a pandemic then a recession,” Puri wrote on LinkedIn.
Other recent personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry:
— Ratnakar Lavu, Nike’s top tech exec, resigned on Monday, according to a report from Business Insider. Lavu was previously CTO at Redbox and Kohl’s.
— Tom Schultz, former chief growth officer at Evariant and sales leader at Inovalon, joined Bellevue, Wash.-based healthcare software company Edifecs as chief revenue officer.
— Craig Smith, chief commercial officer at Vacasa and former president at ANGI Homeservices, is stepping down March 13. The vacation rental giant promoted John Banczak from chief operating officer to principal operating officer, a role Smith previously held.
— University of Washington assistant professors Leilani Battle and Jonathan Zhu were named Sloan Fellows.
— GM Ogle, a former hardware leader at Microsoft and COO at MetaPower, joined Seattle product design and development company Product Creation Studio as director of electrical and firmware engineering.
— Donn Dimond, a venture partner at Elevate Capital Fund, was named president of TiE Oregon, replacing Nitin Rai, according to the Portland Business Journal.
— Trevin Chow, a former product leader at Axon, Nike, and Sketchy, joined e-commerce startup Big Cartel as chief product officer.
