— Graham Sheldon, former company vice chairman of product for Microsoft Groups, is now chief product officer of UiPath, a man-made intelligence and automation firm. UiPath relies in New York Metropolis and has an workplace in Bellevue, Wash.
Sheldon spent greater than 20 years at Microsoft in varied roles. He started as a product supervisor and from 2005 to 2008 served as a technical advisor to Satya Nadella, who was then a senior vice chairman and is now Microsoft CEO and chairman.
Sheldon’s different roles on the tech big included principal lead program supervisor for Bing and principal engineering supervisor for Dynamics Utilized Analysis, the place he led a group of knowledge scientists and engineers to construct predictive methods for enterprise purposes.
UiPath additionally not too long ago promoted Munil Shaw from senior vice chairman of engineering to chief expertise officer of cloud. Shaw beforehand spent 23 years at Microsoft, most not too long ago as head of engineering, developer companies, within the Azure and AI division.
— Seattle biomedical analysis nonprofit Sage Bionetworks appointed Luca Foschini as president. Foschini beforehand spent greater than ten years because the chief knowledge scientist at Evidation Well being, a healthcare expertise and companies firm he co-founded.
At Evidiation, Foschini constructed a group of greater than 50 those that labored with biopharma organizations to supply expertise and methodology steering on accumulating and analyzing well being knowledge generated from sources similar to smartphones and wearables.
Foschini has a doctoral diploma in pc science and has been a visiting researcher at ETH Zurich, Google and the College of California, Santa Barbara. He’s additionally a retired aggressive programmer who represented Italy within the Worldwide Olympiads in Informatics and later coached the Italian nationwide group.
— Irina Wonderful is now CEO of Bamboo Studying, changing Ian Freed. Wonderful and Freed co-founded the five-year-old startup, which has raised greater than $2 million and provides an app that mixes contact and voice recognition. Bamboo beforehand provided voice-based apps for Amazon’s Alexa gadgets.
Wonderful beforehand led the startup’s content material, enterprise improvement, gross sales, product, operations and finance operations. She was beforehand a self-employed instructional administration and curriculum improvement advisor and a vice chairman of enterprise improvement at The Develop Community/McGraw-Hill.
Freed will proceed to serve on the board of Bamboo Studying and as an advisor. He’s a former expertise adviser for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and spent greater than 12 years at Amazon. He additionally spent seven years at RealNetworks.
— Stephanie Camp was employed as chief advertising and marketing officer of recruiting startup SeekOut. Camp was beforehand head of progress advertising and marketing at Qualtrics and vice chairman of promoting at Bellevue, Wash.-based worker well-being firm Limeade. She additionally spent 4 years at Microsoft as a senior advertising and marketing supervisor for Xbox.
SeekOut raised $115 million a 12 months in the past, which propelled its worth previous $1 billion, and it additionally gained Startup of the Yr honors on the Startup Awards in 2021.
— Harina Gokul left Amazon, the place she was buyer success chief for SaaS, digital transformation and innovation. In response to her LinkedIn profile, she is now chief buyer officer at a stealth startup. Gokul spent greater than three years at Amazon, and previous to that labored 14 years at Microsoft, most not too long ago as senior director of worldwide buyer success.
— Brian Crowley is now vice chairman of engineering at WiBotic, which offers wi-fi charging {hardware} and power administration software program for the cell, aerial and underwater robotics markets. Crowley was beforehand on sabbatical for 5 months and previous to that spent greater than 5 years at Alitheon, the place he was most not too long ago vice chairman of engineering and operations.