— Sanjay Parthasarathy, a longtime Seattle tech govt who was most just lately chief product officer at Avalara, has stepped down from the tax software program large.
Parthasarathy joined Avalara in 2019 after the corporate acquired his product information startup Indix.
Avalara, which went public in 2018, was acquired late final yr by Vista Fairness Companions in a $8.4 billion deal. The corporate reportedly went via layoffs final month.
Parthasarathy was beforehand a longtime exec at Microsoft, the place he held a company vp function.
In a weblog put up, Parthasarathy stated he now has “a while now to do what I would like” and plans to put in writing about reminiscences from his days taking part in cricket.
— Sanjay Puri, one other exec at Avalara, additionally just lately left the corporate.
Puri joined Avalara in 2017 as a vp in advertising and marketing. He was most just lately managing the combination of the corporate’s acquisition of Transaction Tax Assets.
Puri beforehand frolicked at Microsoft, HP, and Edifecs. He helped launch the 9Mile Labs startup accelerator in 2012.
“I realized extra about gross sales tax than I ever thought I needed to know … in an organization that grew from $150M to a $1B+, went from non-public to IPO to personal … via a pandemic then a recession,” Puri wrote on LinkedIn.
Different current personnel adjustments throughout the Pacific Northwest tech trade:
— Ratnakar Lavu, Nike’s high tech exec, resigned on Monday, in keeping with a report from Enterprise Insider. Lavu was beforehand CTO at Redbox and Kohl’s.
— Tom Schultz, former chief development officer at Evariant and gross sales chief at Inovalon, joined Bellevue, Wash.-based healthcare software program firm Edifecs as chief income officer.
— Craig Smith, chief business officer at Vacasa and former president at ANGI Homeservices, is stepping down March 13. The holiday rental large promoted John Banczak from chief working officer to principal working officer, a job Smith beforehand held.
— College of Washington assistant professors Leilani Battle and Jonathan Zhu have been named Sloan Fellows.
— GM Ogle, a former {hardware} chief at Microsoft and COO at MetaPower, joined Seattle product design and improvement firm Product Creation Studio as director {of electrical} and firmware engineering.
— Donn Dimond, a enterprise companion at Elevate Capital Fund, was named president of TiE Oregon, changing Nitin Rai, in keeping with the Portland Enterprise Journal.
— Trevin Chow, a former product chief at Axon, Nike, and Sketchy, joined e-commerce startup Large Cartel as chief product officer.