— Teresa Carlson, a longtime tech govt who was most not too long ago a company vp at Microsoft, joined Flexport as its new president and chief industrial officer.
Carlson spent the previous eight months at Microsoft as a CVP and executive-in-residence; she beforehand was a vp on the firm from 2001 to 2010. Carlson additionally spent greater than a decade at Amazon Internet Companies, and joined Splunk in 2021 as president and chief development officer. She sits on the boards of Seattle startup Karat and Bay Space firm Commure.
Carlson will oversee gross sales, advertising, communications, and non-profit efforts at Flexport, the San Francisco-based logistics big which was valued at $8 billion after elevating a $935 million Sequence E spherical in February of final yr. Based in 2013, Flexport offers cloud-based freight forwarding and brokerage providers for ocean, air, truck, and rail, amongst different choices resembling insurance coverage and customs compliance.
Carlson will report back to Flexport CEO Dave Clark, the previous longtime Amazon exec who joined Flexport final yr. She shall be primarily based at Flexport’s workplace in Miami and break up time between Florida and Washington D.C.
Different key personnel adjustments throughout the Pacific Northwest tech trade:
- Seattle tax software program big Avalara employed Kimberly Deobald as its new chief income officer. She was most not too long ago a common supervisor at Varicent, and spent greater than twenty years at IBM.
- Seattle-area workflow automation firm Nintex employed Jen Bailin as chief industrial officer. She was most not too long ago at Amazon Internet Companies and beforehand held exec roles at Salesforce, Cisco, and Microsoft.
- Seattle worker engagement startup Thriller employed Shawn Ramirez as vp of information science. She is president of Eisenrez Companions, an information science consultancy agency, and beforehand held management roles at FutureFit AI, Shelf Engine and Perception Information Science.
- Seattle funding agency Cascadia Capital employed former AGC Companions associate Jim Stone as managing director and promoted Novan Le to senior vp.
- GE Healthcare employed Taha Kass-Hout, former vp and chief medical officer at Amazon, as its first chief know-how officer.