Tech Moves – Page 19 of 44

Mar 7, 2022, 9:48 AM

Tech Moves: Burke Museum appoints executive director; Boundless names product VP; and more

— Dr. Gabriela Chavarria has joined Seattle’s Burke Museum as the new executive director. Chavarria brings more than 20 years of… Read More

Mar 3, 2022, 8:04 AM

Tech Moves: Xamarin co-founder leaves Microsoft; OfferUp adds execs; and more

— Miguel de Icaza, who joined Microsoft after the tech giant acquired Xamarin in 2016, is leaving the company, according to… Read More

Mar 2, 2022, 8:58 AM

Tech Moves: T-Mobile taps new CMO; Bezos Earth Fund adds senior staff; ex-Drugstore.com CEO joins SecureSave board

— Mike Katz, a longtime T-Mobile executive, is now chief marketing officer of the Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier. “This is an… Read More

Feb 28, 2022, 12:16 PM

Microsoft keeps expanding ranks of climate leadership, announces new hire from Shell

Microsoft is adding to its climate leadership ranks by hiring Elisabeth Brinton as corporate vice president of sustainability. The software… Read More

Feb 17, 2022, 6:50 AM

Tech Moves: Amazon product vet joins IoT startup; Amazon comms leader moves to Lyft; Doxo adds execs; and more

— San Diego, Calif.-based company Wiliot named Manish Bansal as chief product officer. He joins the IoT startup from Amazon,… Read More

Feb 16, 2022, 2:50 PM

Acumatica names former Unify Square leader John Case as new CEO; Jon Roskill shifts to EQT role

Business technology company Acumatica, maker of cloud-based enterprise resource planning software, named John Case as its new CEO effective March… Read More

Feb 16, 2022, 2:14 PM

Google Maps veterans hired by Microsoft as new VPs in Maps and Local team

Two former members of the Google Maps team have navigated their way to Microsoft, joining the Redmond company as corporate… Read More

Feb 16, 2022, 6:00 AM

Tech Moves: Accolade HR chief departs; Seattle startup Membrion adds advisor; and more

— Seattle HR executive Britt Provost departed health benefits platform Accolade and joined marketing software company Siteimprove as its first… Read More

Feb 14, 2022, 12:01 PM

Gregory Davis becomes Eviation’s interim CEO with electric aircraft’s first flight coming up

Arlington, Wash.-based Eviation says Gregory Davis is assuming the role of interim CEO as part of a planned succession process… Read More

Feb 11, 2022, 1:26 PM

Tech Moves: Indeed hires Zillow economist; Impinj names COO; Amazon vet joins Fabric; more

— Former Zillow Chief Economist Svenja Gudell is now chief economist at Indeed, leading the job search engine’s research team.… Read More

Feb 4, 2022, 10:57 PM

Amperity CEO Kabir Shahani steps down

Amperity CEO Kabir Shahani has relinquished the CEO title at the fast-growing Seattle startup, a move that comes seven months… Read More

Feb 3, 2022, 2:00 PM

Wizards of the Coast taps former Microsoft and Amazon leader Cynthia Williams as president

Hasbro announced on Thursday morning that it has appointed Cynthia W. Williams as the new president of its Wizards of… Read More

Feb 2, 2022, 10:50 AM

Electric aviation pioneer Roei Ganzarski plots a new course as CEO at Alitheon digital ID venture

Less than a month after announcing his departure from leadership roles at two electric aviation companies, Roei Ganzarski is embarking… Read More

Feb 1, 2022, 7:51 PM

Tech Moves: Microsoft finance leader joins EA; Greater Seattle Partners hires CEO; and more

— Electronic Arts (EA) announced Chris Suh as its new CFO effective March 1. Suh is currently CVP and CFO… Read More

Jan 26, 2022, 5:51 PM

Tech Moves: Qualtrics adds new board members; Adaptiva names CPO and CFO; and more

— Publicly-traded software company Qualtrics added Omar Johnson and Ritu Bhargava to its board of directors. Johnson is a marketing… Read More

Jan 26, 2022, 1:57 PM

CytoDyn CEO ousted after year of lawsuits, FDA rebuke, ongoing investigations

Nader Pourhassan has been ousted as CEO and president by the board of directors of embattled Vancouver, Wash.-based CytoDyn, the… Read More

Jan 26, 2022, 11:58 AM

Tech Moves: Tableau’s new data chief; Outreach, Trulioo add CPOs; Gemini recruits CTO from AWS

— Microsoft alum Wendy Turner-Williams is now chief data officer at Tableau. She joined from Tableau’s parent company Salesforce where… Read More

Jan 19, 2022, 5:29 PM

Tech Moves: Washington STEM names new CEO; Conversica and Iterable hire marketing vets

— Washington STEM announced Milton Lang as the education nonprofit’s new CEO. He has a doctorate in higher education administration… Read More

Jan 14, 2022, 2:53 PM

Tech Moves: Former Lyft, Remitly exec named PCC CEO; Leafly adds engineering leader; and more

— PCC Community Markets announced Krishnan “Krish” Srinivasan, a former finance executive at Lyft and Seattle startup Remitly, as its… Read More

Jan 13, 2022, 7:05 AM

Tech Moves: OfferUp names new CTO; Amazon data center leader departs; and more

— Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. Binde previously held senior… Read More

Jan 11, 2022, 6:00 AM

Tech Moves: Life Science Washington names new CEO; AWS exec departs; Vizio CTO retires

— Life Science Washington announced Marc Cummings as its new CEO and president. He was most recently the trade association’s… Read More

Jan 10, 2022, 10:52 AM

Tech Moves: Adaptive CFO to resign; Meta comms exec departs; AI vet joins Absci board; new Zymeworks CEO

— Chad Cohen will step down as CFO of Adaptive Biotechnologies on Feb. 15. Prior to joining Adaptive in 2015,… Read More

Jan 7, 2022, 12:16 PM

Tech Moves: Zillow hires Nike exec as first design chief; Allen Institute has new CEO; and more

— Zillow Group named Jenny Arden as the Seattle-based real estate company’s first chief design officer. She was most recently… Read More

Jan 6, 2022, 1:23 PM

Tech Moves: Leafly announces new board ahead of SPAC merger; Amazon vets depart; and more

— Leafly announced its new six-member board of directors whose appointments will be effective after its pending SPAC merger with… Read More

Dec 23, 2021, 6:00 AM

Tech Moves: Highspot adds executives; Blue Origin vets depart; Disney hires former Microsoft exec

— Enterprise sales startup Highspot appointed four new executives: Arvind Prakash as VP of product management. Most recently VP of… Read More

Dec 17, 2021, 10:41 AM

Amazon consolidates healthcare groups under veteran exec, shakes up pharmacy leadership

Amazon senior executive Neil Lindsay, a key figure in the growth of the company’s Kindle and Prime businesses, has been… Read More

Dec 17, 2021, 8:12 AM

Senate confirms longtime Microsoft leader Kurt DelBene as CIO at Dept. of Veterans Affairs

— Former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene was confirmed on Thursday by the Senate as the CIO and assistant secretary for information… Read More

Dec 17, 2021, 7:00 AM

Tech Moves: Madrona adds strategic directors; ex-Amperity CMO joins Tenable; Discord hires Microsoft gaming exec

— Seattle startup vet Brian Goldfarb was named chief marketing officer at Tenable, a Columbia, Md.-based cybersecurity company. He was… Read More

Dec 14, 2021, 11:30 AM

Tech Moves: Former Outreach CMO joins Fastly; SmartRecruiters adds ex-Tableau SVP; and more

— Fastly named Margaret Arakawa as chief marketing officer of the publicly traded San Francisco-based cloud network provider. Arakawa spent nearly 20… Read More

Dec 9, 2021, 4:15 PM

Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

— Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade… Read More