— Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll, the previous chief expertise officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO.
D’Ambrosio-Correll joined dwelling health startup Mirror in 2018 and led engineering. The corporate, which bought a wall-mounted mirror that streams exercise courses, was acquired by Lululemon for $500 million in 2020. A 12 months later D’Ambrosio-Correll grew to become CTO of Mirror, which was rebranded to Lululemon Studio.
Based in 2020, Littlebird sells a wearable and app for toddlers that goals to offer peace of thoughts for his or her mother and father. The service lets mother and father know when their children run away from a caregiver on the playground, the place they’ve been in the course of the day, whether or not they’ve been getting sufficient sleep or exercise at daycare, or in the event that they’re operating a temperature, amongst different helpful data.
The corporate is asserting a seed spherical and strategic partnerships “quickly,” CEO and founder Monica Plath mentioned in a press launch. D’Ambrosio-Correll was additionally named a co-founder of the corporate as a part of her rent.
— Mira Lane, a longtime Microsoft chief who was most lately a associate director for the corporate’s Ethics and Society arm, joined Google as a senior director on the expertise and society group. Lane spent 18 years at Microsoft, engaged on Bing, food and drinks apps, MSN, and Microsoft Groups. She joined the Ethics and Society group in 2017 and specialised in cloud and AI.
“E&S started with an acknowledgement that creating superior applied sciences necessitates an ethical accountability,” Lane wrote in a LinkedIn put up. “We approached product growth with the mindset of expertise stewards and the conclusion that selections taken at present have penalties for folks and societies. It was a vessel for aspiration and standing up for human dignity.”
— John Smedley, who ran the Amazon Video games Studios workplace in San Diego, is departing after six years, in keeping with a report from Bloomberg. Smedley is a gaming veteran and beforehand spent greater than a decade at Sony On-line Leisure. He additionally ran a web-based gaming developer/writer referred to as Pixelmage Video games. Smedley didn’t ship any video games at Amazon, Bloomberg famous.
— David Howard, former company vice chairman and authorized chief at Microsoft, joined Seattle agency Morgan, Lewis & Bockius as associate. Howard, a former federal prosecutor, was deputy normal counsel for litigation, competitors legislation, and compliance worldwide at Microsoft, which he joined in 2010. Philadelphia-based Morgan Lewis opened its Seattle agency final 12 months.
— James Gwertzman, normal associate at a16z and former Microsoft gaming exec, is stepping away from his function on the Silicon Valley enterprise capital agency. Gwertzman, who bought gaming infrastructure startup PlayFab to Microsoft in 2018, joined a16z’s shopper investing group in November 2021.
— John McHutchison, former CEO at Meeting Biosciences and exec at Gilead Sciences, joined the board of Tune Therapeutics, a biotech firm with places of work in Durham, N.C., and Seattle. Tune, which raised $40 million in December 2021, is deploying expertise to fine-tune the exercise of genes in cells.