— Shawn Bice returned to Microsoft to function company vice chairman of cloud safety. Bice left a basic supervisor place at Microsoft in 2016 to turn out to be vice chairman of databases at Amazon.
“Safety is a knowledge drawback, and I’ve spent most of my profession constructing distributed information programs,” mentioned Bice in a weblog publish. Extra not too long ago Bice was president of merchandise and expertise at information platform firm Splunk.
— Susan Athey, a professor of economics at Stanford, resigned from Expedia’s board of administrators. A former consulting chief economist for Microsoft, Athey serves as an advisor or board member to a number of corporations.
Athey can be the founding father of the Golub Capital Social Affect Lab, a Stanford effort to enhance social sector organizations by means of digital expertise and social science analysis. She has previously-announced plans to step down from the board of Seattle pet sitting firm Rover in August.
— A pair of high Black leaders at Amazon who helped oversee the corporate’s e-commerce operations are departing:
- Alicia Boler-Davis, senior vice chairman of worldwide buyer success and a member of Amazon’s senior management crew (S-team)
- Dave Bozeman, vice chairman of Amazon Transportation Companies
Their departures come as Amazon reorganizes its operations group. On Tuesday the corporate introduced that Doug Herrington, a veteran of Amazon’s shopper enterprise, can be promoted to the brand new function of CEO of Worldwide Amazon Shops following the departure of high shopper exec Dave Clark. Learn extra right here.
— Electrical plane firm magniX appointed a brand new chairman of the board: John Saabas, beforehand head of engineering and expertise for Bombardier Transportation.
Saabas beforehand additionally served as an advisor to MagniX and chairman of its technical steering committee. “I’m excited at taking over a much bigger function at magniX at a important stage, as we advance from product improvement to certification and commercialization,” mentioned Saabas in a press release.
MagniX introduced a partnership final yr to develop electrical commuter airplanes with Vancouver, B.C.-based Harbour Air Seaplanes and Swiss battery firm H55, and not too long ago landed $74.3 million from NASA.
Outgoing chairman Dominique Spragg will stay with the corporate as an advisor.
— Logistics startup Shipium is increase its management crew. Shipium employed Shilpa Tiwari as vice chairman of engineering and information science, Jason Kerner as senior vice chairman of gross sales engineering, and Brian Thom as vice chairman of gross sales.
Shipium raised $27 million this spring to gasoline the expansion of its instruments to helps e-commerce retailers handle success. The startup targets mid-sized retailers that may’t afford to construct out the kind of software program that giants equivalent to Amazon and Walmart use to coordinate and optimize e-commerce operations.
Different personnel modifications throughout the Pacific Northwest tech business:
- Joseph Williams joined Infosys as a consulting associate, operating their international cybersecurity technique consulting group. He’ll stay in Seattle, the place he was beforehand Seattle director of Pacific Northwest Nationwide Laboratory.
- Randall Tau moved from Amazon Transportation Companies to NEXT Trucking, the place he’s senior vice chairman of operations.
- Mike Kaplan is now vice chairman of enterprise improvement at satellite tv for pc firm LeoStella. He was beforehand vice chairman of recent enterprise improvement for protection and area at Belcan.