Justin Farris, a longtime product chief at Zillow and GitLab, joined Seattle startup Learn AI as vp of product.
Farris spent greater than 5 years in an analogous position at GitLab, the publicly traded DevOps firm, and was director of product improvement at Zillow.
Based in 2021, Learn AI acquired its begin with a gathering notetaker and has added varied different enterprise productiveness instruments. It raised a $50 million Sequence B spherical final yr.
In a press launch, Farris referred to as Learn AI the “Cursor for productiveness.”
“Simply as GitLab is the go-to place for the whole software program improvement course of, Learn AI is the go-to place the place work comes collectively,” he mentioned. “I noticed first-hand what’s taking place within the developer instruments house, and see even bigger alternatives within the productiveness and AI assistant class.”
Learn AI on Wednesday rolled out a brand new “Agentic Workflow Suite.” The corporate is led by David Shim, who gained CEO of the 12 months honors on the GeekWire Awards in Could.
— Lisa Gurry is stepping down from Seattle well being knowledge startup Truveta.
Gurry spent greater than 23 years at Microsoft earlier than serving to launch Truveta as its chief advertising and marketing officer in 2020. She later served as chief working officer and chief development officer.
“I embraced my position as the one feminine co-founder and labored onerous to create a profitable firm and a optimistic expertise for all Truvetans,” Gurry wrote on LinkedIn.
Gurry mentioned that she is “so excited for my subsequent grand journey” however didn’t reveal extra particulars.
Truveta reached unicorn standing earlier this yr after elevating $320 million. The corporate goals to mixture medical data knowledge from associate establishments to hyperlink remedies with outcomes and underlying well being. It’s led by CEO Terry Myerson, a former Microsoft government vp.
— Hossein Nowbar, chief authorized officer at Microsoft, is stepping down after almost three many years on the Redmond tech big.
Nowbar graduated from the College of Washington in 1993, labored at Davis Wright Tremaine for 4 years, after which joined Microsoft in 1997.
He was named chief authorized officer in 2023.
“I helped clear antitrust hurdles for transformative acquisitions like Nuance and Activision Blizzard King, supported product and repair launches that reshaped the best way we work, and launched the Buyer Copyright Dedication to assist our prospects notice the promise of AI,” Nowbar wrote on LinkedIn.
Nowbar didn’t share particulars of his subsequent gig. Jonathan Palmer, a company vp and 15-year veteran of Microsoft, will function the corporate’s new chief authorized officer.
— Edwin Miller, CEO of Seattle-based Marchex, is stepping down after two years main the publicly traded name and dialog analytics firm. Marchex additionally introduced a collection of different exec modifications:
- Troy Hartless, chief income officer, can be now president
- Francis Feeney, chief company and authorized affairs officer, can be now chief working officer
- Brian Nagle, senior vp, controller, is now chief monetary officer
Miller will function a senior advisor to Russell Horowitz, chairman at Marchex.
— Bridget Frey, a longtime chief at Seattle-based Redfin, is taking over the chief knowledge officer position at Rocket after the mortgage big accomplished its acquisition of Redfin in July.
Frey, who joined Redfin in 2011, will proceed her position as chief expertise officer at Redfin, the place she helped launch the machine studying workforce.
“With Bridget guiding our mixed knowledge imaginative and prescient, we’re set as much as create a homeownership expertise that feels genuinely linked end-to-end,” Rocket CTO Shawn Malhotra mentioned on LinkedIn.
— Amazon Internet Providers has introduced on two senior executives, based on a report from Enterprise Insider.
- David Richardson, who was at Stripe and beforehand spent 16 years at AWS, is again on the firm as vp of AgentCore.
- Joe Hellerstein, a professor at UC Berkeley, is becoming a member of as vp and distinguished scientist, based on Enterprise Insider.
— Ty Wolfe-Jones joined Seattle-based EV charging startup Juicer Vitality as head of operations. Wolfe-Jones was a director at Assurance, a COO at Wrench, and supervisor at each DoorDash and Uber.
Juicer, led by OfferUp co-founder Nick Huzar, not too long ago began rolling out its EV charging infrastructure at condo buildings and different properties.
“It’s uncommon that you just discover huge, real-world, ‘proper now’ issues being handled in actually revolutionary methods, and with such a powerful workforce,” Wolfe-Jones mentioned in an announcement. “So once you do, you need to leap at it.”
— Bryan Copley, a Seattle-based entrepreneur and founding father of actual property knowledge startup CityBldr, joined Blue Fern Growth as chief product officer. Blue Fern, a Redmond, Wash.-based actual property improvement and building agency, acquired CityBldr, based on Copley.
“I’m significantly excited in regards to the alternative to work with the workforce to pioneer mixed studying in actual property improvement, fusing AI insights and human judgment to unlock larger productiveness, which from this level ahead can be measured in additional properties,” he mentioned on LinkedIn.
— Sarah Strobhar joined Seattle startup Upbound as chief income officer. Strobhar spent greater than 5 years at AWS as a go-to-market chief and was additionally head of gross sales at Onera.
Based in 2017, Upbound helps enterprise prospects streamline their infrastructure workflow within the cloud. The corporate, based and led by Bassam Tabbara, raised $60 million in 2021.
— Jennifer Adair, a longtime researcher at Seattle-based most cancers heart Fred Hutch, joined the UMass Chan Medical College as a professor and vice chair within the new Division of Genetic and Mobile Drugs. Adair spent 17 years at Fred Hutch, the place she helped lead work on gene therapies on the Adair Lab. She was additionally an affiliate professor at Fred Hutch and a analysis affiliate professor on the College of Washington.
— Pablo Brown-Rodriguez, a former common supervisor at Amazon Well being, launched a brand new Seattle-based agency referred to as Operative Companions that acquires and leads mid-market healthcare companies. “The aim is to seek out an excellent healthcare enterprise and defend legacy, tradition, and folks with a long-term, operator-led strategy,” he wrote on LinkedIn.
