Tech Moves – Page 44 of 44

Jul 1, 2014, 8:09 AM

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

Jun 26, 2014, 7:29 AM

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

Jun 10, 2014, 8:47 AM

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

Jun 4, 2014, 9:06 AM

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

May 29, 2014, 5:00 AM

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

May 27, 2014, 8:00 AM

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

May 7, 2014, 12:12 PM

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

May 1, 2014, 12:42 PM

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

Apr 14, 2014, 11:39 AM

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

Apr 8, 2014, 11:48 AM

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

Mar 31, 2014, 4:33 PM

Tech Moves: INRIX names new board member; Juno taps investment banker as CFO; etc.

—INRIX, the Kirkland company that uses data to reduce traffic congestion, has named Mike Gerling to the board. He previously… Read More

Mar 20, 2014, 10:42 AM

Tech Moves: Tiwary tapped at AWS; Moz’s Dumont headed to NYC; Nausin joins Trover

—Ashutosh Tiwary, the co-founder and former CEO of Bellevue data backup startup Doyenz, has been named general manager of tools… Read More

Mar 11, 2014, 5:03 PM

Tech Moves: Microsoft gains activist board member; Ex-Apple VP becomes first female director at GoDaddy; etc.

—Mason Morfit, president of ValueAct Capital, has joined Microsoft’s board and will also serve on the board’s audit committee. Morfit’s appointment is part… Read More

Mar 4, 2014, 12:48 PM

Tech Moves: Apple CFO to retire; Vijay Vashee joins Versium board; and more

—Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer will retire at the end of September, the company announced today. Oppenheimer has served as the… Read More

Feb 26, 2014, 8:49 AM

Tech Moves: Paul Allen names space chief; Bsquare’s new CEO

—Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has named a new space commander to lead the charge on his ambitious Stratolaunch project. He’s… Read More

Feb 23, 2014, 7:29 AM

Tech Moves: HasOffers adds DoubleClick vet; Globys bolsters team; Hulu picks Microsoftie as CTO; etc.

—It has been a wild few weeks for HasOffers, which was removed from Facebook’s mobile measurement program after it ran afoul… Read More

Feb 14, 2014, 8:29 AM

Tech Moves: Ex-Amazon vet Holden lands at Bezos-backed Uber; Trulia hires CMO for ad war with Zillow; and more

—Uber is zooming ahead with a new chief product, one who helped drive Amazon.com’s growth in the early days. Jeff… Read More

Feb 10, 2014, 8:41 AM

Tech Moves: Ex-Zynga GM Jim Veevaert joins DoubleDown as co-founders leave; Jon Gelsey now CEO at Auth0; and more

— Jim Veevaert, a 20-year industry vet who previously held executive positions at Zynga and Microsoft, has joined IGT’s DoubleDown Casino… Read More

Jan 28, 2014, 7:42 AM

Tech Moves: Stealthy startup Qumulo bolsters exec ranks with Isilon vets; and more

—Qumulo, the data storage company led by former Isilon exec Peter Godman, still hasn’t told the world what it’s building.… Read More