— Barry Christ joined the board of Perth, Australia-based software program firm Buildkite. Crist is the previous CEO and board chair of Chef, a Seattle-based automation know-how firm that was acquired for $220 million in 2020 by Progress, a enterprise utility platform.
Crist, now the board chair at Buildkite, additionally serves on the board of Seattle gross sales startup Enlarge and London-based cloud enterprise communication firm Rossum. He was beforehand the CEO of Likewise, which was acquired in 2012, and labored for Mercury Interactive, McAfee and Apple. Crist is now primarily based in Lopez Island, Wash.
Buildkite additionally appointed two different new board members: Adam Gross, the San Francisco-based former CEO of Heroku, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2010, and Michelle Deaker, the Sydney-based managing accomplice at OneVentures.
Buildkite’s merchandise assist the constructing, testing and deployment of software program, and allow clients to run pipelines on their very own infrastructure. It has greater than 1,000 clients, together with Chef and different Seattle startups. The corporate raised $21 million in a Collection B spherical in November. It competes with Microsoft’s GitHub and others.
— Alice Steinglass joined Salesforce, the place she is government vp and basic supervisor of AppExchange and the Salesforce developer expertise.
Steinglass labored for greater than 5 years at laptop science schooling nonprofit Code.org, most just lately as its president. She stepped down in 2020. Steinglass additionally spent greater than 14 years at Microsoft, together with a stint as a pacesetter within the HoloLens Group. She was featured as a Startup “Working Geek” in 2018.
— Pay fairness startup Syndio appointed tech veteran Suzan (Suzi) LeVine to its strategic advisory board. Levine’s earlier roles embrace commissioner of Washington state’s Employment Safety Division and vp of selling and gross sales for Expedia’s Luxurious Journey Division. She can be a former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
— Robson Grieve is now chief advertising officer of San Francisco-based fleet administration platform firm Motive, previously known as KeepTruckin. Seattle-based Grieve was beforehand chief advertising officer at Outsystem and was previously an government at Concur.
— Jack Miller, co-founder of medical provide market Bttn, is now an advisor to the corporate, stepping down from a product and engineering function.