— Health benefits platform Accolade named Cindy Kent to its board of directors. Kent is currently EVP and president of senior living at Brookdale Senior Living. She previously served on… Read More
Kathy Savitt is leaving Yahoo. The tech giant’s chief marketing officer announced today that she is taking a new role at STX Entertainment as president of the motion picture and television studio’s digital arm. Savitt was not… Read More
Alaska Airlines is getting a little more geeky in the board room. The Seattle airline today announced the appointment of Kathy Savitt and Dhiren Fonseca to the board. Savitt currently serves… Read More
The story of Lockerz — the battered and bruised Seattle upstart that sold earlier this year to a Chinese e-commerce company at a fire sale price — is one of the more… Read More
Seattle startup Lockerz lost its founder and CEO — retail and PR vet Kathy Savitt — to an executive role at Yahoo in August. But that’s not slowing the company’s enormous appetite… Read More
Sometimes you run into stories in the strangest places. On an elevator ride in Pioneer Square this morning, I bumped into Wishpot founder Max Ciccotosto who let me in on a… Read More
Anyone trying to get a sense for where Marissa Mayer hopes to take Yahoo should take a look at the background of Kathy Savitt, the Seattle-area tech executive who was… Read More
Marissa Mayer continues to put her mark on Yahoo, announcing today that Seattle public relations veteran and entrepreneur Kathy Savitt has joined the company as chief marketing officer. Savitt previously… Read More
In what could best be described as a “talent acquisition,” Seattle startup Off & Away has been purchased by fast-growing social networking company Lockerz, GeekWire has learned. Eleven of the… Read More
Some of the biggest names in venture capital are putting their faith in Lockerz, a Seattle upstart that came on the scene in a big way in 2011. The company,… Read More
Last week, I moderated a panel discussion at the TechNW event in which panelists Andy Sack of TechStars, Glenn Kelman of Redfin and Kathy Savitt of Lockerz suggested that Seattle needs… Read More
Overdone. Counterproductive. Tired. Whiny. Those are some of the words I’ve heard in the past few weeks as the Seattle startup community looks itself in the mirror, debating our standing… Read More