— General John Hyten, a 40-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, was named executive director of Blue Origin’s foundation, Club for the Future. Hyten was also appointed as strategic advisor… Read More
— T-Mobile appointed former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director Letitia Long to its board. Long served as the director of the NGA from 2010 until her retirement in 2014. She… Read More
— The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce announced Rachel Smith as the business association’s new CEO. She starts in January. “The jobs, prosperity, and community solutions that our region’s employers… Read More
Skytap today announced a partnership with Microsoft Azure as the company continues its shift to becoming a capability within public cloud providers. Founded 12 years ago, Skytap helps companies migrate… Read More
Enterprise cloud services company Skytap is laying off 25 employees, or around 12 percent of its workforce, in an effort to “optimize” its operations, the company said Wednesday. The cuts… Read More
Thor Culverhouse is no longer the CEO of enterprise cloud services company Skytap, and former chief technology officer Bradley Schick will lead the company going forward, GeekWire has learned. “I… Read More
Deadlines have a way of getting your attention. On January 14th, 2020, Microsoft will stop providing security updates for Windows Server 2008, almost nine years after the last major update… Read More
Seattle’s Skytap signaled earlier this year it was going to be working much more closely with public cloud providers in the near future, and as part of that shift the… Read More
Raksha Balasubramanyam is a first-generation technology professional, artist and “connector of poeple” whose interest in tech was sparked in part by the travels of her father when she was a kid.… Read More
Former Expedia and Zulily executive Justin Richmond joined athletic clothing retailer Lululemon as the company’s chief strategy and digital officer, according to his LinkedIn profile. Richmond left his position as the SVP and… Read More
Fast-growing Seattle startup Skytap will now offer its customers the choice of running their workloads on Amazon Web Services in addition to Skytap’s own cloud, as it looks to build… Read More
Seattle’s Skytap has raised a big funding round to help companies that never thought they’d be able to take advantage of cloud services move their applications out of their data… Read More
Enterprise cloud company Skytap has hired a former Microsoft vice president, Wayne Morris, as its new chief marketing officer in an effort to further boost its growth in the market for running legacy business… Read More
Seattle-based Appuri, a startup using big data in an attempt to predict customer dissatisfaction, has appointed a new CEO: former Talentwise CEO Todd Owens. Owens replaces Appuri co-founder Damon Danieli, who… Read More
uZoom, an on-demand, one-to-one live video streaming service, announced this week that CEO Dean Graziano is stepping down from his role, to be replaced by Seattle tech veteran John Kueber. Graziano co-founded… Read More
—Redfin has promoted Bridget Frey to CTO, replacing Sasha Aickin who stepped down from the position last December. Frey joined the Seattle-based online real estate company in 2011, previously serving… Read More
—Telecommunications entrepreneur Vern Fotheringham has been named CEO of Leosat, an Arlington, Virginia-based company developing a constellation of low-earth orbit satellites. Fotheringham, a veteran of the telecom business who previously… Read More
Skytap is flying high. The Seattle cloud computing startup today is announcing that it has raised $35 million in new funding in a deal led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation… Read More
—Mixpo, the six-year-old online video advertising startup, has named former Razorfish and aQuantive executive Jeff Lanctot as CEO. He replaces founder Anupam Gupta, who will remain on the board of… Read More
Thor Culverhouse is more than just an impressive name. He’s also the CEO at fast-growing cloud company Skytap. Although new to the company, having joined in July, Culverhouse has has… Read More
—Seattle cloud automation startup Skytap has named Thor Culverhouse as CEO. Culverhouse is the former president of Stratavia, which was acquired by HP in August 2010. He replaces Scott Roza who has… Read More
Brett Goodwin, a former marketing executive at Isilon Systems and RealNetworks, has joined fast-growing Seattle cloud computing startup Skytap as vice president of marketing and business development. Goodwin was employee… Read More