— Dr. Skylar Olsen is again at Zillow Group.
Olsen spent eight years at the actual property large, most lately as senior principal economist, from 2012 to 2020. She returns within the position of chief economist at Zillow, serving to the corporate bolster its market analysis arm.
Olsen, who earned her PhD in economics on the College of Washington in 2013, spent eight months at ClimateCheck after leaving Zillow in 2020. She then took a task as senior director and principal economist at Tomo, a mortgage startup based by two Zillow vets. She additionally runs her personal consultancy, Reimagine Economics.
Zillow additionally lately employed Dr. Orphe Divounguy, former chief economist on the Illinois Coverage Institute, as senior economist.
— J Allard, a former Microsoft exec and co-founder of Xbox, joined on-line fundraising platform GoFundMe as chief product and expertise officer.
Allard was at Microsoft from 1991 to 2010. As chief expertise officer and chief expertise officer of the Leisure and Units Division, he co-founded Xbox, Xbox Dwell, Dwell Arcade and Xbox 360 among the many greater than 40 merchandise he launched.
Allard returned to the online game trade in Might 2020, becoming a member of Intellivision, however he left after a brief stint.
At GoFundMe, Allard will lead the corporate’s tech infrastructure and oversee product, design, and engineering groups. The Redwood Metropolis, Calif.-based firm launched in 2010 and has helped customers increase greater than $17 billion from greater than 200 million donations.
Allard continues to be working 529 Storage, a community-powered service aimed toward beating again bicycle theft.
Different personnel modifications throughout the Pacific Northwest tech trade:
- Trevor Edwards, former president of Nike, joined the board at Funko, sellers of popular culture toys and collectibles based mostly in Everett, Wash.
- Abed Farhan, former gross sales exec at Vancouver, Wash.-based advertising firm ZoomInfo, joined Portland, Ore.-based buyer knowledge startup Lytics as chief business and technique officer.
- Kathy Ahuja, a safety veteran who labored at OneLogin, DocuSign, Microsoft, Oracle, and Symantec, was named vp of data safety at Seattle knowledge storage startup Qumulo.
- Meredith Han, a former Brooks Operating director, stepped down as vp of product at Seattle actual property startup Flyhomes.
- Robert Locke, a former senior government at automation large Johnson Controls, joined Seattle AI startup Phaidra as new president and chief technique officer.
- Soojung Smith, a former Microsoft exec and serial entrepreneur, joined Seattle agriculture IoT startup Koidra.
- Chris Sembroski, a Seattle-area knowledge engineer who was one among 4 crew members on an orbital journey in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, joined Blue Origin as an avionics engineer. Learn extra.