— Claudiu Bulai is now chief innovation officer at Bellevue, Wash.-based startup Quantarium.
Bulai beforehand spent 5 years at Meta, most lately main engineering for the tech big’s Actuality Labs Analysis, the group behind Meta’s augmented and digital actuality initiatives. The group is central to the corporate’s imaginative and prescient of constructing a “metaverse.”
Bulai’s was beforehand additionally improvement engineering supervisor for telecommunications firm Viavi Options and a design engineering supervisor at Micro Energy Electronics (now Electrochem Options).
Quantarium applies AI fashions to residential actual property analytics, together with property valuations.
— Lyell Immunopharma has a brand new CEO and president: Lynn Seely, a member of the corporate’s board and former CEO of Myovant Sciences. Seely succeeds Elizabeth Homans who served the corporate for 4 years, first as president after which CEO. Homans will stay as a guide with the corporate by means of June 2024.
“My determination to transition from my function at Lyell was a tough one, however I’m excited in regards to the subsequent chapter for the corporate below Lynn’s management,” mentioned Homans in an announcement. “Main Lyell to change into a completely built-in firm with two scientific stage packages has been a privilege.”
Seely, a former assistant professor of drugs at College of California, San Diego, was additionally beforehand senior VP and chief medical officer at Medivation and VP of scientific analysis at Corgentech. Seely will probably be primarily based within the South San Francisco headquarters of Lyell, which additionally has operations in Seattle, the place it employs 120 individuals. Final yr the startup raised $425 million in its IPO and accomplished a $65 million 70,000 square-foot manufacturing middle in Bothell, Wash.
Different key personnel modifications throughout the Pacific Northwest tech trade:
- Christina Forney is now vice chairman of product at Uplevel, a Seattle startup that helps engineering groups analyze the effectiveness of their builders. She was beforehand a product advisor at Sourcegraph.
- Two people from the Pacific Northwest have been chosen to serve on the U.S. Nationwide House Council’s Customers Advisory Group: Blue Origin CEO Robert Smith and Rajeev Badyal, vice chairman of expertise at Amazon Challenge Kuiper.
- Faisal Masud, CEO of e-commerce expertise startup Material, was appointed to the board of administrators of Artful, a platform for offering meals and drinks for workplaces and distant staff.
- Hannah Foell, beforehand fight producer on God of Conflict Ragnarök at Santa Monica Studio, joined the third get together group at Nintendo of America.
- Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee appointed two new members to the board of the Andy Hill Most cancers Analysis Endowment (CARE) Fund, the state’s most cancers analysis endowment that lately obtained a particular $30 million appropriation. The brand new members are Marc Cummings, CEO and president of Life Science Washington, and Maura Little, managing principal at Echo Well being Advisors.