— Jon Jones, a former Amazon Net Companies vp, is now chief income officer for CoreWeave, the New Jersey-based AI computing firm that went public earlier this 12 months.
Jones joined AWS in 2017 and left the place of VP of world startups and enterprise capital. He’ll stay in Seattle.
Jones’ three-decades lengthy profession consists of roles from startup founder to enterprise govt management.
“I’m thrilled to affix CoreWeave at such an necessary second,” Jones stated in an announcement. “AI adoption is advancing at a rare tempo, and lasting success will depend on pairing world-class know-how with the best go-to-market technique to maneuver new concepts from inception to implementation and scale-out.”
— Michael Montoya is now chief know-how operations officer for F5, taking the function the identical week that the Seattle firm disclosed a serious safety breach linked to nation-state hackers.
F5, whose {hardware} and software program sit in the midst of a lot of the world’s web visitors, reported the breach on Wednesday, saying the attackers maintained “long-term, persistent entry” to a few of its product improvement and engineering techniques earlier than the incident was contained.
To take the F5 function, Montoya resigned as chief working officer on the cybersecurity firm BlueVoyant and left the F5 board of administrators, which he joined in 2021. Earlier in his profession, Montoya labored for Microsoft throughout two stints that collectively spanned practically 13 years. He additionally beforehand served a chief info safety officer for Equinix and Digital Realty.
— Longtime Expedia Group govt Umang Choudhary is now vp of product for Traveloka, a Singapore-based journey platform.
Choudhary was with Seattle-based journey large Expedia for greater than 14 years, leaving the place of VP of product and content material in 2022. He then took a task at logistics startup Convoy and served as a contractual chief product officer for Moxee Applied sciences for lower than a 12 months.
— Seattle College President Eduardo Peñalver — credited with “a legacy of progress and innovation” — is leaving to grow to be president of Georgetown College. Peñalver, has led the Jesuit college since 2021 and can step down in March. He begins his new function at Georgetown in Washington, D.C., on July 1.
Peñalver holds a legislation diploma from Yale Legislation Faculty and clerked for former U.S. Supreme Court docket Justice John Paul Stevens. Previous to becoming a member of Seattle U. he was dean of Cornell Legislation Faculty.
— Phil Gousman, a former director at advertising and marketing firm Tune, is now head of product operations for Casium, a Seattle-based immigration tech startup that launched final 12 months out of the AI2 Incubator.
Gousman joins Casium from LSEG (London Inventory Alternate Group) the place he led technique and operations for knowledge merchandise associated to fraud prevention and identification verification. Gousman is an legal professional and supplied in-house counsel at Tune, later shifting to the function of director of company and enterprise operations the place he managed partnerships and acquisitions.
Casium expedites the immigration course of, utilizing algorithms to evaluate the perfect visa and inexperienced card choices for an applicant after which gathering info and serving to prep required paperwork.
“[W]e’re going to make ‘immigration’ and ‘pleasant person expertise’ belong in the identical sentence,” Gousman stated on LinkedIn.
— Simran Suri has been promoted from senior affiliate to principal on the enterprise capital agency Maveron, which has places of work in Seattle and San Fransisco. Suri joined the agency final 12 months and was beforehand a senior affiliate at Equal Ventures.
— Joel Beherndt is the top of market improvement and shopper technique for the Bellevue, Wash.-based workplace of SEI Seattle. SEI, which operates nationally, offers consultancy companies for AI functions; knowledge and analytics; and safety, danger and compliance. Beherndt was beforehand with Level B for 14 years.
“[Beherndt’s] confirmed capability to drive progress by way of prime tier supply, govt relationships, and model enlargement makes him the best chief to assist develop our presence right here. We’re thrilled to welcome him to the crew,” Bonnie Coté, SEI Seattle’s managing director, stated in an announcement.
