— Longtime tech chief Lisa Gurry is now chief enterprise officer for GeneDx.
Gurry spent greater than 23 years at Microsoft earlier than serving to launch Seattle well being tech startup Truveta as its chief advertising and marketing officer in 2020. She later led operations and development at Truveta, which reached unicorn standing earlier this 12 months after raising $320 million. The corporate’s expertise aggregates medical file information to be able to reveal connections between remedies and well being outcomes.
Maryland-based GeneDx has created an enormous uncommon illness dataset that hyperlinks sufferers’ genomic data with diseases.
By combining the dataset “with the urgency of our mission, we will speed up diagnoses for households, gasoline drug discovery for biopharma, and ship data-powered worth to well being methods,” Gurry mentioned in a statement.
— Healthcare chief Kim Baggett is now director of operations on the Most cancers AI Alliance (CAIA), a consortium led by Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Most cancers Middle that features Dana-Farber Most cancers Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Most cancers Middle, and Johns Hopkins College.
Baggett was with Seattle Youngsters’s for greater than 15 years, together with as vice chairman of middle enterprise operations. She joins CAIA from Sage Bionetworks the place she was chief working and monetary officer.
— Microsoft board member Carlos Rodriguez will resign following the tech big’s annual shareholder assembly in December. He joined the board in 2021. Rodriguez was beforehand CEO of Computerized Information Processing (ADP), a worldwide human assets and payroll firm, for 12 years.
— Bellingham, Wash.-based Bible research and sermon preparation platform Logos named Chris Migura as its new CEO, succeeding Bill McCarthy. Migura, who relies in Dallas-Fort Price, was beforehand chief monetary officer at Logos starting in 2023.
Logos, based in 1992 and beforehand often called Faithlife, has greater than 6 million customers globally.
McCarthy led Logos for greater than a 12 months and is now chair of the group’s board of administrators.
— Temporal, a developer instruments startup based mostly in Seattle, named two new appointments:
- John Bonney is now chief monetary officer, becoming a member of the corporate from Harness. He beforehand held senior finance management roles at FinancialForce, SAP and elsewhere.
- Jonathan Chadwick, a veteran of VMware joined Temporal’s board of administrators, whereas additionally holding board seats with Confluent, Databricks, ServiceNow and Zoom.
Temporal additionally this week closed a $105 million secondary transaction led by GIC, pushing its valuation to $2.5 billion.
— Jennifer Prenner joined the information infrastructure firm NetApp as senior vice chairman of product advertising and marketing. Prenner has held advertising and marketing management roles at corporations together with Amazon, Rivian, Meta, Verizon and others.
“What excites me most is shaping the story: turning breakthrough expertise into clear, inspiring narratives that spark creativeness about what is feasible,” Prenner mentioned on LinkedIn.
— Justine Hastings joined Bellevue, Wash.-based logistics startup Auger as chief AI economist.
Hastings beforehand spent seven years at Amazon, most lately in a chief scientist position overseeing human assets information. She’s additionally an affiliate professor of economics on the College of Washington.
“Justine builds the fashions that flip macroeconomic and geopolitical indicators into clever provide chain choices,” Auger CEO Dave Clark wrote on LinkedIn.
Clark, the previous Amazon Worldwide Shopper CEO, has recruited a number of former Amazon leaders to Auger, which announced a $100 million Collection A spherical in December.
— Stephen Jenkins, a former director and normal supervisor at Amazon Internet Companies, joined Rowan Digital Infrastructure as chief improvement officer. Denver-based Rowan designs and builds sustainable hyperscale information facilities for world tech giants. Jenkins labored at AWS with Rowan CEO Charley Daitch.
“Jenkins’ management in constructing new AWS areas, coupled along with his monitor file in designing and deploying hyperscale information facilities all over the world is unmatched,” Daitch mentioned in a press release.
— Bill Platt, former chief of Amazon Internet Companies’ agentic AI division, joined San Francisco-based Alchemy as COO. Platt’s mandate is “to weave AI brokers deeply into blockchain infrastructure,” in keeping with the corporate. Platt was with AWS for almost 12 years over two stints, most lately based mostly within the Boston space.
— Make clear co-founder Austin Hay has left the Seattle startup, which launched final 12 months to construct an AI-powered buyer relationship administration platform that automated busy work.
“Persistently, I felt myself pulled down a distinct path than I envisioned once we began Make clear,” Hay mentioned in a LinkedIn submit. “And more and more these days, that left me feeling torn about my position as we grew, and at odds with the altering nature of the beast we created.”
Hay shared his gratitude for his co-founders and his satisfaction in what the corporate has constructed. The startup in June announced $15 million in new funding.
— Chris Duranti joined Govstream.ai as a founding engineer. Duranti was at Socrata for seven years, leaving the position of principal software program engineer. He was most lately at Protection Cat. Govstream.ai makes use of synthetic intelligence to assist authorities leaders enhance allowing and concrete improvement processes. Socrata exec Safouen Rabah launched the Seattle-area startup final 12 months.
— Zachary Cohn joined Wizards of the Coast as principal technical product supervisor for Dungeons & Dragons. Cohn is a serial entrepreneur and involves Bellevue, Wash.-based Wizards from client tech startup Tomorrow. Different previous roles embody jobs at Spark Rent, Cephalofair Video games, DemandStar and others.
— Washington Analysis Basis appointed Sen. Jamie Pedersen to its board of administrators. Pedersen, the Washington Senate majority chief, has served as a Democratic chief in Olympia for almost 20 years — initially as a state consultant earlier than turning into a senator 12 years in the past. Early in his profession, Pedersen was an lawyer at Preston Gates & Ellis, now named Ok&L Gates.
