— Picnic CEO Clayton Wooden is stepping down from the meals automation startup.
The Seattle tech vet joined Picnic in 2018, serving to the startup mature from the prototype stage and land almost $40 million in enterprise capital to assist development of its meals meeting robots.
“It’s been an exhilarating journey, serving to to construct a brand new business of restaurant automation, and I’m very pleased with the work I used to be capable of accomplish with the invaluable help of an incredible workforce of leaders and contributors,” Wooden wrote on LinkedIn.
Picnic earlier this month laid off an undisclosed quantity of workers.
The corporate sells a pizza-making robotic known as the Picnic Pizza Station and introduced a partnership with pizza big Dominos in September.
Wooden, a former Honeywell director, beforehand was CEO of Synapse Product Growth and held govt roles at Planetary Energy and IUNU.
— Moina Banerjee, chief monetary officer of actual property funding belief JBG Smith Properties, joined the board of Expedia Group. Banerjee beforehand labored at Blackstone Group and Citigroup. She’s going to function chair of Expedia’s audit committee.
— Michael Hilton, chief product and innovation officer at healthcare firm Accolade, stepped down from the corporate however can be becoming a member of its board, changing Tom Neff. Hilton beforehand co-founded journey expense big Concur with Raj Singh, present CEO and chairman of Accolade.
— Peter Thompson, co-founder of Seattle startup Bizible and a former chief at Adobe, Marketo, and Microsoft, joined San Francisco B2B advertising and marketing startup Channel99 as chief expertise officer.
— Andrew Oxtoby, former CEO of Aimmune Therapeutics, joined Seattle biotech firm Chinook Therapeutics as chief industrial officer.
— Paul Aisen, Sam Gandy, and Charles Glabe joined the board of Seattle biotech startup AltPep.