— Hootsuite appointed Elina Vilk as chief marketing officer. Vilk previously worked as CMO at Woocommerce, an open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress sites. She also held marketing leadership roles at… Read More
— Hootsuite hired two new execs: Chief Revenue Officer Jessica Hartigan and Chief Customer Officer Ellen Terchila. Hartigan previously worked at the job-seeking platform CareerBuilder for more than a decade,… Read More
— Vancouver, B.C.-based social media management platform Hootsuite hired Antonis Papatsaras as its new chief technology officer. Papatsaras was previously chief technology officer of the contract lifecycle management product suite… Read More
Hootsuite told employees on Tuesday that it would lay off 30% of its staff, becoming the latest tech company to reduce costs and extend runway amid the broader market downturn.… Read More
— Seattle tech vet Marcelo Calbucci is heading to Amazon after a 4-year stint as CTO at Whitepages spinout Hiya. Calbucci is joining Amazon’s People Experience Team. He told GeekWire that… Read More
— Gavriella Schuster, a former Microsoft vice president, joined Nerdio’s board of directors. Schuster spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, where she most recently led the One Commercial Partner… Read More
— Tomo, a new real estate startup led by ex-Zillow leaders, announced Sarah Makar as CMO. She is also a Zillow alum and was most previously SVP of marketing at… Read More
— RealSelf CEO James Coyle stepped down and Jeff Kizilbash has been named interim CEO of the cosmetic review platform. Kizilbash is a recent hire at the Seattle-based company, joining… Read More
Hootsuite, the Vancouver, B.C.-based social media management platform, announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Heyday, a conversational AI platform, for about $48 million USD. The acquisition will enable Hootsuite users… Read More
— Life Science Washington President and CEO Leslie Alexandre will retire at the end of the year. She has led the life sciences trade association since 2016. Alexandre will retire… Read More
— DefinedCrowd founder and CEO Daniela Braga and Allen Institute for AI CEO Oren Etzioni are part of the newly formed National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force. The task… Read More
— Starbucks announced the retirement of its chief financial officer and named a successor. Rachel Ruggeri, a 16-year veteran of the company, will take over for the retiring Patrick Grismer,… Read More
— Seattle-based consulting firm Slalom announced Iesha Berry as its first chief inclusion and diversity officer. Based in the Dallas area, Berry was most recently SVP of human resources and… Read More
— Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The notoriously secretive Silicon Valley… Read More
Tagboard and Hootsuite are teaming up to help brands and media companies display a group of social posts in an easier, more efficient manner. Hootsuite enterprise customers will now be able… Read More
Hootsuite, the Vancouver, B.C.-based startup that helps organizations better manage social media efforts, has pulled in another $60 million in venture funding that values the fast-growing company at about $1… Read More
Seattle super angel Geoff Entress told me a few months ago that HootSuite, the B.C.-based maker of social media analysis tools, may turn into one of his best investments of… Read More
Social media has revolutionized the way we communicate. With the revolution has come insane amounts of data, analytics and information about customers, followers and users. How can companies leverage this… Read More