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Tech Moves

Tech Moves: Gates Foundation CFO steps down; Urban Airship hires new execs after CEO leaves; and more

— Two top execs at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are stepping down: Dick Henriques is leaving the organization… Read More

Cray execs leave supercomputer maker to pursue new entrepreneurial opportunities

Two top Cray executives are leaving the Seattle-based supercomputer maker. The company announced today that Bill Blake, CTO and senior vice president,… Read More

Tech Moves: Joanna Lord jumps to Porch; Maggie Finch joins Mixpo board; and more

—Porch continues to pack in the entrepreneurial talent. The latest to join the fast-growing Seattle online home improvement startup is… Read More

Tech Moves: Rosenthal returns to Madrona: Aronchick lands at Chef; and more

—David Rosenthal is returning to Madrona Venture Group. Rosenthal, a former investment banker at UBS and a member of The Wall… Read More

Amazon payments engineering director leaves for health-care tech company

Doug Hebenthal, who left Microsoft in 2012 to become engineering director for Amazon’s e-commerce payments platform, is leaving Amazon to take a job as senior… Read More

Tech Moves: Julep nabs Blue Nile operations whiz; Salesforce.com and Twitter change CFOs; etc.

—Julep, the Seattle cosmetics startup backed by Maveron, Andreessen Horowitz, Jay-Z and others, has named Dwight Gaston as chief delivery… Read More

Tech Moves: Cyanogen hires mobile vets; Blucora taps ex-Buy.com exec; Ben Elowitz leaves Wetpaint; and more

—Cyanogen, which is looking to disrupt the mobile operating system market, has named former Amazon and Hulu employee Dave Herman… Read More

Linden Rhoads leaving University of Washington tech transfer post

Linden Rhoads, who helped boost the number of startups coming out of the University of Washington over the past six… Read More

Seattle startup Porch hires Paul Allen’s former tech advisor

Parag Garg, the former Amazon architect who worked briefly as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s top tech adviser, has landed at Porch, the fast-growing… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow CMO named to Avvo board; Blue Box bolsters team; Dendreon CEO out; Snap Skout’s new COO and more

—Zillow Chief Marketing Officer Amy Bohutinsky has joined the board of Avvo, the Seattle company that’s building an online marketplace… Read More

Big data startup SpaceCurve cuts staff, CEO departs

SpaceCurve, a big data startup specializing in building a platform that stores and analyzes streaming data tied to sensors and… Read More

NetMotion Wireless taps former Clearwire execs as president, CFO

Former Clearwire CEO Erik Prusch appears to be assembling the old band together at NetMotion Wireless. Six months after joining… Read More

Former Skype CEO Tony Bates lands at camera maker GoPro

Former Skype executive Tony Bates is joining GoPro as president after getting passed over for the top job at Microsoft… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft taps Teper to lead corporate strategy; WhitePages lands ex-Wetpaint exec; Lovering leaves Splunk

—Microsoft tapped Jeff Teper to lead the company’s corporate strategy group. The promotion occurred last month, with Teper previously serving as… Read More

Tech Moves: Redfin names chief economist; Ex-Apple vet named CEO of X2Biosystems

—Redfin is following in the footsteps of Zillow and Trulia, appointing the Seattle online real estate company’s first-ever chief economist.… Read More

Tech Moves: Godreau heading to NYC with UP Global; Chef opens in Europe; and more

—UP Global continues to expand, and this time the Seattle non-profit has picked an experienced venture capitalist to help lead… Read More

Watchguard CEO Joe Wang resigns; Michael Kohlsdorf named interim replacement

Watchguard, a Seattle-based network security company, announced today that Joe Wang as stepped down after serving as CEO for the… Read More

Digital trade school Code Fellows names Amazon vet CEO

Kristin Smith, a former vice president at Zulily who previously spent eight years at Amazon.com, has been appointed CEO of… Read More

Tech industry vet Matthew Schiltz named CEO of Blue Box

Matthew Schiltz has been named CEO of cloud hosting startup Blue Box, assuming the duties from founder Jesse Proudman who is… Read More

Key Nokia camera engineer hired by Apple following Microsoft acquisition

Nokia’s smartphones are known for their cameras and imaging technology, but a key engineer on the team won’t be joining Microsoft as… Read More

ThePlatform co-founder Ian Blaine to step down after 14 years, new co-CEOs named

Typically, founders stick around for just a few years after their companies are acquired. Ian Blaine, who co-founded the online… Read More

Tech Moves: Porch poaches engineering lead Nakhuda from Amazon; Apple’s PR chief retires; Twilio taps director; and more

—Seattle home improvement startup Porch has hired Daryn Nakhuda to be its director of growth engineering. Nakhuda will be charged with… Read More

Amazon picks customer service VP to run expanding grocery delivery business

Tom Weiland, Amazon’s head of global customer service, has been put in charge of managing Amazon Fresh, according to his… Read More

Tech Moves: Snapchat adds execs; TrueSample expands; HasOffers goes to South Korea

—Snapchat hired Jad Boutros from Google to serve as its head of Information Security, according to Boutros’s Google+ page. It’s… Read More

Dashwire founder Ford Davidson leaving HTC, kicks around new startup idea

Seattle entrepreneur Ford Davidson is leaving HTC nearly three years after selling startup company Dashwire to the smartphone maker. “HTC recently… Read More

Microsoft hires key HP exec Tony Prophet as new Windows marketing leader

Microsoft has hired Tony Prophet, a longtime HP exec who oversaw operations in the computer maker’s key Printing and Personal Systems group. Prophet… Read More

Chase Jarvis named CEO of CreativeLive, Mika Salmi moves to board role

Mika Salmi is stepping down as CEO of fast-growing online education company CreativeLive, handing the reins to co-founder Chase Jarvis.… Read More

Tech Moves: Amazon exec leaves for Square, Edifecs expands leadership team, and more

—Alyssa Henry has joined Square as its head of Engineering, the company announced today. Prior to her work at the payments… Read More

Report: Paul Allen’s tech advisor leaves after four months

Parag Garg, who was hired as a technology adviser to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has left the job after just… Read More

Tech Moves: Apple poaches Amazon A9 VP to head up search products, Modumetal names CFO, and more

—Benoit Dupin, previously Vice President of Search Technology for Amazon A9, has left the company to go work for Apple. His… Read More

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