Mike Ensing. (RealNetworks Photo) — Mike Ensing, president and COO of RealNetworks, resigned this week. Ensing joined the publicly traded Seattle software company in 2020 as interim CFO, and was named president and COO later that year. He’ll remain a strategic advisor through Aug. 19....
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Alicia Boler Davis. (Alto Photo) Alicia Boler-Davis, previously a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team, will become CEO at Alto Pharmacy in September. Boler Davis spent 24 years at General Motors and in 2019 joined Amazon, where she led several e-commerce teams including Worldwide...
Maggie Brady. (Convoy Photo) — Maggie Brady, previously a human resources group leader at fintech company Fiserv, is now head of people at trucking marketplace Convoy. Brady previously also led human resources teams at GE Healthcare, HD Supply and Anthem. Convoy raised $260 million this...
Tech Moves: Expedia hires chief security officer; Microsoft technical fellow departing; and more
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Expedia global chief security officer Kurt John. (Expedia Photo) — Kurt John, former chief cybersecurity officer for Siemens USA, joined Expedia as global chief security officer. John will be responsible for IT security, physical security and privacy. John spent nearly six years at...
Shawn Bice, Microsoft corporate vice president of cloud security. (Microsoft Photo) — Shawn Bice returned to Microsoft to serve as corporate vice president of cloud security. Bice left a general manager position at Microsoft in 2016 to become vice president of databases at Amazon....
Palak Goel. (Madrona Photo) — Palak Goel, a former product manager at Microsoft, has joined Madrona Venture Group as its newest investor. Goel previously spent nearly three years at Microsoft, most recently working on the company’s Microsoft Turing team. He graduated from Brown...
Tech Moves: Blue Origin hires Air Force vet to lead foundation; ‘grandfather’ of VR retires; and more
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John Hyten. (Blue Origin Photo) — 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 to senior leadership at the Seattle-area space company founded by...
Katrina Lane (left) and Lauri Metrose. (Expedia Photos)— Expedia Group announced two hires to its executive team. Katrina Lane, former vice president at Twitter, and Lauri Metrose, former executive vice president at CBS Studios, joined as senior vice president of global customer engagement and...
Tech Moves: Peloton hires AWS exec as CFO; Uplevel co-founder lands at Microsoft; and more
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Peloton CFO Liz Coddington. (Peloton Photo) — Liz Coddington, former vice president of finance at Amazon Web Services, joined Peloton as chief financial officer. Coddington worked at Amazon for more than six years. She was previously chief financial officer for Walmart.com and vice...
Tech Moves: Former Expedia exec named Remitly CFO; Beckett hires Seattle exec as CEO; more
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Hemanth Munipalli. (LinkedIn Photo) — Hemanth Munipalli, a longtime finance exec most recently at Expedia Group, joined Remitly as CFO effective July 18. Munipalli joined Expedia in 2016 and was CFO of Egencia before becoming senior vice president and CFO for the travel giant’s...
Sheryl Sandberg. (Meta Photo) — Longtime Meta leader Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down this fall. Sandberg, chief operating officer and the No. 2 in charge behind CEO Mark Zuckerberg, joined Meta (formerly known as Facebook) more than 14 years ago. “When I took this job in 2008, I...
Brian Hook. (LinkedIn Photo) Brian Hook joined Seattle startup Mason as chief technology officer after nearly eight years at Meta. Hook was most recently a senior director of engineering at Meta, and previously led Oculus virtual reality teams. Founded in 2015, Mason provides clients...
Elizabeth Scallon. (LinkedIn Photo) Elizabeth Scallon, a Seattle tech veteran who was most recently at Amazon, is now at HP as director of Incubation enablement. Scallon joined Amazon in 2020 and helped connect entrepreneurs to the company’s Alexa Startups and Alexa Fund programs, and most...
Tech Moves: Flying Fish adds investor to lead new Canada office; Panopto, magniX hire CEOs
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Tiffany Linke-Boyko. (Flying Fish Photo) — Flying Fish hired Tiffany Linke-Boyko as principal to lead a new Alberta hub, its first office outside of Seattle. The firm also revealed Tuesday that it landed $7.5 million from Alberta Enterprise Corporation, formed by the Government of Alberta...
Marcelo Calbucci. (Photo courtesy of Calbucci)— Seattle tech vet Marcelo Calbucci is heading to Amazon after a 4-year stint as CTO at Whitepages spinout Hiya. Calbucci is joining Amazon’s People Experience Team. He told GeekWire that it’s a new group within the tech giant that is...
Former Microsoft Viva and Teams leader Vineet Taneja joins Brex as vice president of product
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Vineet Taneja. (Brex Photo)Vineet Taneja, former general manager at Microsoft, joined fintech giant Brex as vice president of product. Taneja worked at Microsoft in Seattle and India for more than 13 years in a variety of management roles, most recently leading product for Microsoft Viva, the...
James Phillips. (Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips is stepping down as president of financial services at Stripe, just one month after joining the company. Phillips landed at Stripe in April after a decade-long stint at Microsoft, where he was most recently president of the...
James Phillips. (Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips is stepping down as president of financial services at Stripe, just one month after joining the company. Phillips landed at Stripe in April after a decade-long stint at Microsoft, where he was most recently president of the...
James Phillips. (Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips is stepping down as president of financial services at Stripe, just one month after joining the company. Phillips landed at Stripe in April after a decade-long stint at Microsoft, where he was most recently president of the...
James Phillips. (Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips is stepping down as president of financial services at Stripe, just one month after joining the company. Phillips landed at Stripe in April after a decade-long stint at Microsoft, where he was most recently president of the...
(LinkedIn Photo)Ariel Dos Santos, former vice president of product and technology at Peloton, has joined Seattle real estate giant Redfin as vice president of product. “Redfin is a product that I’ve absolutely LOVED for many many years and I’m excited to work with some brilliant folks to...
(LinkedIn Photo)Ariel Dos Santos, former vice president of product and technology at Peloton, has joined Seattle real estate giant Redfin as vice president of product. “Redfin is a product that I’ve absolutely LOVED for many many years and I’m excited to work with some brilliant folks to...
(LinkedIn Photo)Ariel Dos Santos, former vice president of product and technology at Peloton, has joined Seattle real estate giant Redfin as vice president of product. “Redfin is a product that I’ve absolutely LOVED for many many years and I’m excited to work with some brilliant folks to...
(LinkedIn Photo)Ariel Dos Santos, former vice president of product and technology at Peloton, has joined Seattle real estate giant Redfin as vice president of product. “Redfin is a product that I’ve absolutely LOVED for many many years and I’m excited to work with some brilliant folks to...
Tech Moves: SoundCommerce adds CRO after acquiring Outlier.ai; Qumulo hires execs; and more
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SoundCommerce CRO Steve Davis. (SoundCommerce Photo) — Seattle startup SoundCommerce acquired Outlier.ai and brought on its founder Steve Davis as chief revenue officer. Founded by Amazon vets in 2018, SoundCommerce aims to help online retailers improve operational efficiency by gathering...
Tech Moves: SoundCommerce adds CRO after acquiring Outlier.ai; Qumulo hires execs; and more
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SoundCommerce CRO Steve Davis. (SoundCommerce Photo) — Seattle startup SoundCommerce acquired Outlier.ai and brought on its founder Steve Davis as chief revenue officer. Founded by Amazon vets in 2018, SoundCommerce aims to help online retailers improve operational efficiency by gathering...
Tech Moves: SoundCommerce adds CRO after acquiring Outlier.ai; Qumulo hires execs; and more
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SoundCommerce CRO Steve Davis. (SoundCommerce Photo) — Seattle startup SoundCommerce acquired Outlier.ai and brought on its founder Steve Davis as chief revenue officer. Founded by Amazon vets in 2018, SoundCommerce aims to help online retailers improve operational efficiency by gathering...
Tech Moves: SoundCommerce adds CRO after acquiring Outlier.ai; Qumulo hires execs; and more
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SoundCommerce CRO Steve Davis. (SoundCommerce Photo) — Seattle startup SoundCommerce acquired Outlier.ai and brought on its founder Steve Davis as chief revenue officer. Founded by Amazon vets in 2018, SoundCommerce aims to help online retailers improve operational efficiency by gathering...
Susanna Morgan. (Remitly Photo) — Susanna Morgan is stepping down as CFO of Remitly. Morgan joined the Seattle-based digital remittance company in 2018, following finance exec roles at Apptio, Concur, and Vertafore. Remitly announced Morgan’s departure as part of its first quarter...
Susanna Morgan. (Remitly Photo) — Susanna Morgan is stepping down as CFO of Remitly. Morgan joined the Seattle-based digital remittance company in 2018, following finance exec roles at Apptio, Concur, and Vertafore. Remitly announced Morgan’s departure as part of its first quarter...