Tech Moves

Tech Moves: Convoy co-founder lands new trucking gig; Shipium names CFO; Graham & Walker grows

— Grant Goodale is jumping back into trucking. The Convoy co-founder announced Tuesday that he is now chief product and technology officer at Ryder, a Florida-based logistics giant. Goodale previously served… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Expedia CTO joins Varo Bank; Point B gets CEO; and more

— Rathi Murthy, former chief technology officer for Expedia, is now CTO for Varo Bank, a digital financial institution based in San Francisco. Murthy was previously a CTO at Verizon… Read More

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff rejoins Amazon in new VP role

Jamie Siminoff has returned to Amazon as a vice president of product overseeing the company’s home security camera arm and related businesses. Siminoff, the Ring founder and longtime CEO, left… Read More

Tech Moves: Gennev founder steps down; Aurion Biotech CEO is out; Temporal adds president

— Jill Angelo, founder and CEO of Seattle menopause startup Gennev, announced that her chapter with the business is ending. Florida-based women’s health company Unified Women’s Healthcare acquired Gennev in… Read More

Tech Moves: Amazon leaders depart; Zenoti adds CCO; Seattle U names business dean; and more

— Dr. Vin Gupta, chief medical officer for Amazon Pharmacy, has resigned after five years in his role. Gupta is now a managing director at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, an… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft CVP leads new ‘Trusted Technology Group’; MicroVision adds CTO

Microsoft’s Teresa Hutson has taken the role of corporate vice president for the company’s newly created Trusted Technology Group. “We believe — I believe — AI can change the world.… Read More

Longtime Microsoft HR chief Kathleen Hogan shifts to corporate strategy role for CEO Satya Nadella

Microsoft named Kathleen Hogan, its longtime chief people officer, to the new role of executive vice president of strategy and transformation, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella. Hogan will focus on… Read More

Tech Moves: Logixboard names new CEO; consulting vets launch Built for Leaders; and more

Agasthya Upadhya is the new CEO of Logixboard, a Seattle startup that sells software to freight forwarding companies. Upadhya was previously chief product officer for the company, where he started… Read More

Tech Moves: Rad Power Bikes names former Bartell Drugs leader Kathi Lentzsch as its new CEO

Seattle-based e-bike maker Rad Power Bikes named Kathi Lentzsch as its new CEO. Lentzsch previously ran Bartell Drugs as CEO before the company sold to Rite-Aid in 2020. She also… Read More

Tech Moves: Longtime Google leader Umesh Shankar joins Microsoft as new corporate VP

After nearly 19 years at Google, Umesh Shankar has joined Microsoft AI as a corporate vice president of engineering. Shankar, based in New York City, has focused his career on… Read More

Longtime tech leader Dawn Lepore named board chair at Seattle startup Amperity

Seattle-based customer data startup Amperity named veteran tech leader Dawn Lepore as its new board chair. Lepore has more than four decades of experience in the tech industry, including board… Read More

Rad Power Bikes CEO Phil Molyneux is out in latest shakeup at Seattle e-bike maker

Phil Molyneux is no longer CEO of Rad Power Bikes, more than two years after the former Sony president took over the Seattle-based e-bike maker. A spokesperson for Rad confirmed… Read More

Former Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom named CFO of industrial giant Fortive

Former Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom is taking the role of chief financial officer for Everett, Wash., manufacturing conglomerate Fortive. Okerstrom is a longtime Seattle-area tech leader who spent 13 years… Read More

Internal memo: Amazon One Medical CEO Trent Green leaving to lead publicly traded NRC Health

Trent Green, the CEO of Amazon’s primary healthcare company, One Medical, is leaving to take a job as CEO of publicly traded National Research Corp., which does business as NRC… Read More

Tech Moves: Starbucks names CFO; Avanade bolsters C-suite; Tune Therapeutics gets CEO

— Starbucks announced Cathy Smith as its chief financial officer. Smith was most recently at Nordstrom for two years, and has held CFO roles at Bright Health, Target, Express Scripts,… Read More

Tech Moves: UW professor wins prestigious honor; T-Mobile board shuffle; and more

— Mary-Claire King, a groundbreaking innovator in genetics, has received The National Academy of Sciences’ most prestigious metal, the Public Welfare Medal. King is a professor of medicine with the… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow promotes execs; ZoomInfo CTO resigning; ESS CEO steps down

— Seattle’s Zillow Group promoted two leaders to senior vice president positions. Michael Sherman is now SVP of Zillow Rentals. Sherman joined Zillow in 2012 and has led the real… Read More

Former Cruise CEO Marc Whitten joins Meta to run new group focused on humanoids

Marc Whitten, a longtime tech executive with roots in the Seattle region, has joined Meta to lead a new team working on AI-powered humanoid robots. Bloomberg first reported the news.… Read More

Tech Moves: Smartsheet names CTO; Outreach appoints CFO; Concord’s new CEO; and other hires

Cynthia Tee is now chief technology officer for Smartsheet. Tee was previously senior vice president of engineering at the Bellevue, Wash., company for nearly three years. Tee worked at Microsoft… Read More

Convoy co-founder Dan Lewis joins Microsoft in exec role leading work on enterprise AI

Dan Lewis, the former CEO of shuttered Seattle trucking startup Convoy, has joined Microsoft in a chief product officer role. Lewis left Convoy last year after the one-time unicorn company… Read More

Tech Moves: Google Cloud hires Microsoft exec Hayete Gallot in new president role; Impinj CRO retires; WSU names president

— Google named Hayete Gallot, most recently Microsoft’s corporate vice president of commercial solutions, to the newly created position of president of customer experience for Google Cloud, with plans to… Read More