— Cynthia Tee has left Smartsheet, the place she was chief expertise officer on the work administration software program large. Tee was CTO since February 2025; earlier than that she was senior vice chairman of engineering for almost 4 years.
The Bellevue-based firm has not publicly introduced Tee’s departure or named a alternative. A spokesperson stated by way of e mail: “We thank [Tee] for the numerous contributions and want her properly in her subsequent alternative.”
Tee informed GeekWire she has not taken a brand new function elsewhere.
Early in her profession, Tee was with Microsoft for 20 years, becoming a member of in 1994 and dealing for a few years on Home windows applied sciences. Previous to Smartsheet, she was vice chairman of commerce expertise at Nordstrom.
Tee was additionally govt director of Seattle’s Ada Builders Academy, a tuition-free tech bootcamp offering coaching for girls and different underrepresented individuals in tech.
Smartsheet laid off an undisclosed variety of employees earlier this month. Tech veteran Rajeev “Raj” Singh took over as CEO in October following the August announcement that longtime Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader was retiring.
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— Overland AI, a Seattle startup constructing autonomous floor autos utilized by the U.S. army, employed Mark Dewyea as head of authorized. Dewyea, who relies in Virginia, joins the corporate from Defend AI the place he was chief of workers and in-house counsel.
“Mark brings intensive expertise throughout authorities, army, and protection expertise sectors, together with service as an lively obligation choose advocate within the U.S. Marine Corps and as a authorized analyst on the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Overland AI stated on LinkedIn.
Overland AI spun out of the College of Washington in 2022 and earlier this month introduced $100 million in new funding.
— Jessica Roberto is becoming a member of the Washington State Division of Commerce as Data Financial system Lead within the Workplace of Financial Improvement and Competitiveness.
Roberto was beforehand on the UW’s Buerk Middle for Entrepreneurship the place she served as affiliate director and supervisor of graduate pupil packages and the Hollomon Well being Innovation Problem. She was with the Buerk Middle for six years and holds a PhD from the UW in pathobiology.
— Heather Redman, co-founder and managing accomplice of the enterprise agency Flying Fish, is now on the Seattle department board of administrators for the Federal Reserve Financial institution of San Francisco.
— Seattle tech entrepreneur Anna Fuller is now engaged on commerce AI at Google. She was beforehand head of product at California’s Massive Sur AI, which Google acquired on the finish of final yr. Fuller can be a resident professional at Seattle’s AI2 Incubator, which launched the AI Home final yr on the town’s waterfront.
— Alaska Airways promoted Ben Brookman to vice chairman of actual property and airport affairs. Brookman has been with the airline for greater than a decade over two separate durations. Previous employers embrace Convoy and Amazon.
— Comcast named Keith Turner as senior VP of its Pacific Northwest area, which serves Xfinity and Comcast Enterprise clients in Washington and Oregon. Turner has been with the telecom and leisure large for almost 20 years.
— Zillow promoted Rebecca Amos-Stuart to advertising director. Amos-Stuart, primarily based within the Seattle space, has been with the actual property tech firm for greater than six years. She beforehand ran her personal consulting enterprise and was with Verizon for 12 years.
— Cam Caldwell, chief working officer for Binti, is now working the software program improvement firm’s newly opened Seattle workplace. San Francisco-based Binti is constructing expertise that serves the kid welfare system. The brand new location is hiring.
— Seattle-based music licensing startup Incantio appointed Virl Hill to its board of administrators. Hill is a media and expertise govt whose previous employers embrace Microsoft, RealNetworks and Disney. He beforehand served on Incantio’s advisory board.
— The agency Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice named Brian Maxey as senior counsel in its Seattle workplace. Maxey, beforehand COO for the Seattle Police Division, will concentrate on threat administration planning, disaster response and strategic litigation for shoppers within the public sector.
— Vija Veinbergs-Rogers is now a senior software program engineer on the Seattle-based AI roleplay startup Yoodli. She joins from the neurology tech firm Rune Labs.
— The Nationwide Academy of Engineering, a company conferring one of many highest skilled distinctions for engineers, has elected 130 new members together with for 4 related to the Pacific Northwest:
- David Baker, a UW Nobel Laureate and director of UW Drugs’s Institute for Protein Design, which makes use of AI to create de novo proteins.
- Douglas Burger, a Microsoft Analysis technical fellow and company VP accelerating cloud-scale computing and networking infrastructures with field-programmable techniques.
- James Hamilton, an Amazon SVP and distinguished engineer centered on cloud computing and knowledge middle effectivity.
- Elizabeth Lund, a retired SVP of high quality for Boeing who labored on improvement and manufacturing of the twin-aisle business airplanes.
— The Oregon Entrepreneurs Community appointed 5 new members to its 18-person board of administrators:
- Ernie Bootsma, shareholder and legal professional with Buchalter LLC
- Suhail Khan, SVP on the insurance coverage agency Marsh
- Allie Persitz (Magyar), proprietor of Dynamic Occasions and working accomplice at Elevate Capital
- Melanie Robust, founding accomplice of the funding agency Subsequent Ventures
- Shanbo Zhang, angel investor and enterprise accomplice at Oregon Enterprise Fund
