Google has hired Sam Schillace to help run its cloud engineering operations, company spokesperson Michael Moeschler confirmed today. As the new vice president of engineering...
Tag Archives: exec
Apple hires robotic hand pioneer Yoky Matsuoka, former UW professor and Nest exec
Apple is getting a hand from robotics pioneer Yoky Matsuoka. The Google X co-founder and robotic hand pioneer, formerly of the University of Washington, is joining the Cupertino-based tech giant.
The news comes via Fortune, which reports that Matsuoka...
Working Geek: Boeing exec Nicole Piasecki does her best work in the sky
Nicole Piasecki has been close to aviation her whole life. Not only is she a high-ranking executive at Boeing,...
Tech Moves: Whitepages adds former Box exec to board; ex-AOL president Bob Lord joins IBM; and more
—Whitepages appointed Whitney Bouck to its board of directors. The former Box vice president is Seattle-based Whitepages‘ third external director and will help guide marketing and...
Tech Moves: Ossia hires new CEO; Avvo taps Spotify exec as CTO; and more
— Ossia, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that makes wireless charging technology, has appointed Didier Le Lannic as CEO. He will take on leadership of Ossia in its Bellevue offices and help the company bring its technology, which debuted at this year’s Consumer Electronics...
Virtual reality will make people more connected to humanity, not less, VR exec predicts
Virtual reality is the new tech craze, but some fear the future it offers. Opponents conjure up a bleak world where people will waste away in headsets living virtual lives because they prefer the virtual world to the real...
Facebook security exec Regina Wallace-Jones: Why technical skills aren’t enough to be a great engineer
The head of...
Former Xome CEO and Groupon exec Kal Raman takes new gig at Samsung as chief digital officer
Kal Raman is taking on another high-level position at a large tech company. The former Groupon COO and Drugstore.com CEO is now the chief digital officer at Samsung, according to a recent change on Raman’s LinkedIn profile. Raman was most recently the CEO of Xome, a...
Netflix exec calls NBC’s report on streaming viewership ‘remarkably inaccurate’
Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos has been forced to talk about something that the streaming service has always been quite content not to discuss: its ratings. But that didn’t...
Geek of the Week: Marketing exec David Hyslop on Seattle, ‘Shark Tank’, and the pros and cons of a moving workplace
If you’ve ever tried your luck at prospecting, chances are it involved a lot of sifting through rocks with a tin pan and a very little gold to take home in your pockets. David Hyslop’s job is to convince you there’s a better way to make like...