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Tech Moves: Hootsuite founder returns as interim CEO; Scowtt adds CFO; new role for former Edifecs CEO

Ryan Holmes returns to Hootsuite as interim CEO; Scowtt adds a CFO; and Edifecs’ Venkat Kavarthapu takes new CEO role. 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: Hootsuite adds execs; Institute for Protein Design names new leader

— Hootsuite hired two new execs: Chief Revenue Officer Jessica Hartigan and Chief Customer Officer Ellen Terchila. Hartigan previously worked… Read More

Tech Moves: Hootsuite hires CTO; Cascadia Capital CEO moves to Austin; and more

— Vancouver, B.C.-based social media management platform Hootsuite hired Antonis Papatsaras as its new chief technology officer. Papatsaras was previously… Read More

Hootsuite lays off 30% of staff, says it’s focusing on ‘financial sustainability’ amid downturn

Hootsuite told employees on Tuesday that it would lay off 30% of its staff, becoming the latest tech company to… Read More

Tech Moves: Hiya CTO lands at Amazon; ex-Splunk president joins Karat board; and more

— Seattle tech vet Marcelo Calbucci is heading to Amazon after a 4-year stint as CTO at Whitepages spinout Hiya. Calbucci… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Amazon product manager joins Shelf Engine; Nerdio adds former Microsoft exec to board; Hootsuite hires CPO

— Gavriella Schuster, a former Microsoft vice president, joined Nerdio’s board of directors. Schuster spent more than 25 years at… Read More

Tech Moves: Lyft hires CFO from Amazon; Tomo adds CMO; Gopuff taps more Seattle talent

— Tomo, a new real estate startup led by ex-Zillow leaders, announced Sarah Makar as CMO. She is also a… Read More

Tech Moves: RealSelf appoints interim CEO; Hootsuite hires CFO; ex-Tune CEO lands at Roku

— RealSelf CEO James Coyle stepped down and Jeff Kizilbash has been named interim CEO of the cosmetic review platform.… Read More

Social media manager Hootsuite acquires conversational AI-platform Heyday for $48M

Hootsuite, the Vancouver, B.C.-based social media management platform, announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Heyday, a conversational AI platform, for… Read More

Leslie Alexandre

Tech Moves: Life Science Washington CEO to retire; Hootsuite hires new CMO; and more

— Life Science Washington President and CEO Leslie Alexandre will retire at the end of the year. She has led… Read More

Tech Moves: Seattle AI experts join national task force; Boundless co-founder departs; and more

— DefinedCrowd founder and CEO Daniela Braga and Allen Institute for AI CEO Oren Etzioni are part of the newly… Read More

Tech Moves: Starbucks names new CFO as pandemic fuels mobile ordering; Panopto adds IBM exec; F5’s new security leader; and more

— Starbucks announced the retirement of its chief financial officer and named a successor. Rachel Ruggeri, a 16-year veteran of… Read More

Tech Moves: Slalom and WTIA add diversity leaders; Seattle mayor won’t seek re-election

— Seattle-based consulting firm Slalom announced Iesha Berry as its first chief inclusion and diversity officer. Based in the Dallas… Read More

Spencer Rascoff

Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

— Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed… Read More

Hootsuite partners with hashtag aggregator Tagboard to help brands display social media posts

Tagboard and Hootsuite are teaming up to help brands and media companies display a group of social posts in an easier,… Read More

Social media manager Hootsuite raises $60 million at valuation near $1 billion

Hootsuite, the Vancouver, B.C.-based startup that helps organizations better manage social media efforts, has pulled in another $60 million in… Read More

Why super angel Geoff Entress is smiling: HootSuite just scored a whopping $165M VC round

Seattle super angel Geoff Entress told me a few months ago that HootSuite, the B.C.-based maker of social media analysis… Read More

The 10 social media tools that every startup must have

Social media has revolutionized the way we communicate. With the revolution has come insane amounts of data, analytics and information… Read More

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