— Joe Heitzeberg is stepping down as CEO of CrowdCow, the Seattle-based meat and seafood market he co-founded in 2015. Elizabeth Liu, the corporate’s vp of promoting, will tackle the position.
Liu has been with the startup since its inception and beforehand spent 15 years in e-commerce roles, together with as advertising director at Wayfair, product supervisor for funds at Amazon, and in a enterprise improvement and strategic partnership position at Zulilly.
The corporate additionally promoted Saba Kalaimani to the position of chief working officer, from vp of finance.
Heitzeberg will stay with the corporate as chairman of the board.
“It’s been an unimaginable journey from the early days of testing the elevator pitch with random folks at a Starbucks, to changing into an business chief in connecting customers to prime quality, sustainable meat and seafood,” stated Heitzeberg in a LinkedIn put up saying the adjustments.
— Seattle-based drug screening startup Curi Bio named a brand new CEO, Nicholas Geisse, who succeeds Michael Cho. Geisse has served the corporate for greater than 5 years as chief science officer and beforehand held scientific, industrial, product improvement and administration roles for Asylum Analysis, which was acquired by Oxford Devices.
Cho will proceed with the biotech firm in a company and authorized technique capability. Curi Bio raised $10 million in December 2021 to advance its cell-based screening platform.
— Ulf Ewaldsson will grow to be president of expertise at T-Cell, changing Neville Ray, who plans to retire.
Ewaldsson has labored at T-Cell for 4 years and presently serves as govt vp and chief community officer for the corporate. He beforehand held management roles at Ericsson for twelve years, most lately as as advisor to the CEO.
Ray served T-Cell for 23 years, ushering the corporate from 2G to 5G expertise, and plans to step down later this yr.
— Qumulo, a Seattle-based startup that helps firms handle massive datasets, added two new leaders.
- Ryan Farris, vp of product, was beforehand chief expertise officer at Anitian, and likewise served as a product and engineering chief at Amazon, the place he labored with AWS MediaStore and CloudFront.
- Brandon Whitelaw, vp of strategic partnerships, was beforehand at Amazon the place he as answerable for gross sales and market technique for AWS’ storage providers, and likewise held gross sales and advertising roles at Dell EMC.
— Pittsburgh medical documentation firm Abridge appointed Amazon AI researcher Zachary Lipton as chief scientific officer. Lipton served as a visiting scientist at Amazon for six years and has served as a scientific advisor for Abridge for 4 years. He’s additionally an assistant professor of machine studying at Carnegie Mellon College.
— IT providers and consulting firm Slalom promoted Sharon Lynch to guide its North America Slalom construct enterprise, which connects clients with software program engineering providers. Lynch beforehand served as a managing director at Slalom and beforehand was a director {of professional} providers at Tribold and a supervisor at Accenture.
— Two College of Washington researchers have been named Sloan Fellows, an award that acknowledges early-career researchers as next-generation leaders.
- Leilani Battle, an assistant professor within the Paul G. Allen Faculty of Laptop Science & Engineering. Battle, who co-leads the UW’s Interactive Knowledge Labs, researches the interactive visible exploration of large datasets.
- Jonathan Zhu, an assistant professor within the Division of Arithmetic. His analysis focuses on curved surfaces and their idea and geometry.