— Stanford professor Susan Athey, a former consulting chief economist at Microsoft, will be a part of the U.S. Division of Justice as its high antitrust economist, Bloomberg reported. Athey consulted with Microsoft from 2007 to 2013, the place her experience included large knowledge analytics, antitrust and coverage regarding web search and internet advertising. Her regulatory efforts on the tech big included antitrust investigations towards Google.
Athey joins the Justice division because it prepares for a trial towards Google and investigates Apple. Bloomberg reported that she is more likely to be recused from these circumstances due to her earlier work, which incorporates serving as an knowledgeable in an antitrust swimsuit towards Apple.
Athey’s transfer additionally comes because the U.S. Federal Commerce Fee and different regulators scrutinize Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of online game firm Activision Blizzard. Amazon can also be dealing with antitrust investigations within the U.S., U.Ok., and E.U.
Athey not too long ago resigned from the Expedia board of administrators, and introduced plans to step down from the board of Seattle pet sitting firm Rover in August.
— Jody Bailey left Amazon Internet Companies, the place he was director of software program growth, for a place as chief know-how officer at Stack Overflow.
Bailey spent greater than three years at AWS, and beforehand was head of know-how at Pluralsight. He additionally held engineering management positions at AtTask, Vovici, VeriSign, and Vastera.
Bailey, based mostly in Seattle, will lead product engineering, platform engineering, data safety, and IT groups at Stack Overflow, a developer useful resource. The corporate raised a $85 million Collection E spherical in July 2020.
Different personnel modifications throughout the Pacific Northwest tech trade:
- Jennifer Mullin, previously vice chairman of promoting at cybersecurity agency Malwarebytes, is now chief advertising and marketing officer at DreamBox Studying. She beforehand additionally held advertising and marketing roles at Leapfrog Enterprises, Visa, Evite and Hole.
- Shivani Patel, previously director of gross sales at Amplitude, joined augmented writing firm Textio as its vice chairman of gross sales.