Ada Developers Academy, the Seattle-based non-profit coding bootcamp, is getting a new leader: Nicole Buchanan. Buchanan joins Ada from Consulting Engagements, where she spent four years as a technology marketing consultant and executive.… Read More
Amperity, an AI-fueled marketing startup that recently launched from stealth mode and announced a partnership with Microsoft, is adding some horsepower to its board of directors. The Seattle-based company announced Thursday that… Read More
For the past six years, Paul Stephen has held leadership roles in Zillow Group’s corporate technology department so the rest of the company could focus on shaking up the real… Read More
Peter Wilson, the former Google and Facebook engineering director who joined mobile marketplace OfferUp last year to lead its engineering team, is no longer with the company, GeekWire has learned.… Read More
Fresh off of stints as an executive for Microsoft and Dropbox, Thomas Hansen is joining cyber security firm Carbon Black. Hansen is Carbon Black’s new chief revenue officer and executive… Read More
Microsoft announced Monday that Kate Johnson, currently an executive with GE, will join the Redmond tech giant as president and corporate vice president of the company’s U.S. division. The announcement… Read More
John Case, the former corporate vice president of global marketing, product management, and business teams for Office and Office 365, has been named CEO of Unify Square, according to his LinkedIn… Read More
Smartsheet has some serious momentum. Fresh off a $52 million funding round, the Bellevue-based collaborative work management technology company brought in Gene Farrell to be its senior vice president of… Read More
— Apptio, the Bellevue, Wash. company that makes software to help CIOs better understand spending in IT departments, has added Zillow Chief Financial Officer Kathleen Philips to its board. According to a… Read More
As it continues to grow, OfferUp will have another guiding voice in its corner with experience building a fast-growing retail operation in the Pacific Northwest: Darrell Cavens, co-founder and CEO of… Read More
Richard Tait, one of Seattle’s most accomplished entrepreneurs, has landed an interesting gig at the world’s largest coffee retailer. Tait, who previously co-founded game maker Cranium and launched a series… Read More
Jeff Bezos has a new “shadow.” According to his LinkedIn bio, former VP of Kindle Jeffrey Helbling has taken over the role of technical advisor to Amazon‘s CEO, a coveted… Read More
Startup incubator TechStars announced late last year that it is partnering with Amazon for the Alexa Accelerator, an incubator specifically for startups that want to build products based on Alexa’s… Read More
Wellness technology company Limeade announced this morning that former Microsoft exec Lee Rossini is joining the company’s leadership team as VP of product and marketing. Rossini previously served as the VP… Read More
Seattle online real estate powerhouse Zillow Group announced today that Slack executive April Underwood has joined the company’s board of directors. In addition, former Trulia CEO Pete Flint said that he’d not… Read More
—Apple and Amazon are on a collision course in many industries, but the battle for tech talent looks to be heating up in the TV space. According to a report… Read More
It’s been a busy year at Qumulo: the data storage and data informatics company announced a new CEO in November, and capped $100 million in funding last summer. Now the company… Read More
Donuts, the Bellevue, Wash.-based domain registry, announced a change in leadership on Thursday with the appointment of Bruce Jaffe as chief executive officer. Jaffe takes the reins from Paul Stahura, the company’s… Read More
In some ways, James Newell is a hometown Seattle boy. He was born and raised on the Kitsap Peninsula, just an hour’s ferry ride from downtown Seattle, and attended the University… Read More
In October of 2015, DocuSign CEO Keith Krach announced he would be stepping down from the top job at the digital signature giant as soon as the company found a replacement.… Read More
The Washington Technology Industry Association‘s Board of Directors has a new chairman: John Suk, a Harvard and University of Chicago graduate with a 20-year career in tech leadership in the Seattle… Read More
Cray, the Seattle supercomputer maker, announced a new addition to its leadership team: tech veteran Stathis Papaefstathiou has joined the company as its senior vice president of research and development.… Read More
Russ Mann, a longtime fixture in Seattle’s tech scene, is taking on another leading role. He was announced this morning as the new CEO of Seattle-based Onvia, a Seattle-based government… Read More
Seattle-based Avalara, a cloud-driven tax automation startup, announced today that former Microsoft and T-Mobile exec Jeremy Korst will join the company as its new chief marketing officer and executive vice president. Korst… Read More
PayScale, a fast-growing, Seattle-based company that offers online salary comparison services, announced the promotions of two new vice presidents this week: Lydia Frank was promoted to Vice President of Content… Read More
Peter Godman and Bill Richter have known each other for 10 years, dating back to the time when the two tech executives worked together at Seattle-based Isilon Systems. That data… 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
Seattle tech vet and talent expert Kerry Van Voris has left her position as director of talent at Madrona Venture Group, GeekWire has learned. Van Voris came to the position in… Read More
It’s been a big year for sales technology startup Outreach — the company raised $17.5 million in new funding in June and has also brought on a slew of notable investors… Read More
Seattle entrepreneur Ford Davidson has been around the startup block a few times, selling his phone backup service Dashwire to HTC in 2011 and then raising cash for enterprise software… Read More