Adam Selipsky, former CEO of Amazon Web Services, joined the board of directors for Circle Internet Group, an international financial technology company.
“Circle is helping to reshape how money works through trusted stablecoin technology, regulatory engagement, and global reach,” Selipsky wrote on LinkedIn. “I look forward to working with [Circle CEO] Jeremy Allaire and the leadership team in advancing this important mission.”
Circle went public June 5 and its stock today was trading at nearly $200 per share, up from its IPO price of $31. The company supports the use of cryptocurrency and public blockchains for business payments and trade.
Selipsky joined AWS in 2005, rising to the role of vice president of marketing, sales and support before he departed in 2016 to become CEO of Seattle-based Tableau Software.
He led Tableau for more than five years, returning to AWS in 2021 as CEO of the Amazon cloud unit. Selipsky left AWS in June 2024 after leading the business through one of the most prosperous and yet challenging periods in its history as AWS hustled to keep up with competitors in generative AI.
— Microsoft continues its poaching of AI experts from Google with the hire of Amar Subramanya, former vice president of engineering at Google’s Gemini. The Redmond, Wash., tech giant has nabbed more than 24 employees from Google DeepMind in the past six months, according to a tally by the Financial Times.
“Just one week into my new role, I’m already feeling deeply energized. The culture here is refreshingly low ego yet bursting with ambition,” Subramanya said on LinkedIn, adding that “it reminds me of the best parts of a startup.”
Subramanya is corporate vice president of AI and Microsoft AI, according to LinkedIn
Subramanya was with Google for more than 16 years. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 2009 and was a visiting researcher at Microsoft for a year in the mid-2000s.
— Philippe Rogge has rejoined Microsoft as the corporate vice president of its worldwide public sector, which involves partnering with governments, educators, defense and intelligence organizations in their use of technology.
“Public sector organizations around the world are facing a triple mandate: modernize legacy systems, embrace AI to drive national competitiveness, and ensure sovereignty over data and infrastructure,” Rogge said on LinkedIn.
Rogge was a Microsoft for 12 years working in offices around the globe, including across Europe and in China. He left in 2022 for a job at Vodafone in Germany, then took a break from professional work for more than a year before taking this new position.
— Angela Heise, whom Rogge succeeds, held the role for nearly three years and her career includes nearly two decades at Lockheed Martin.
“After an extraordinary journey at Microsoft, I’ve made the decision to step away from my corporate role and step fully into a new chapter — one fueled by purpose, possibility, and progress,” Heise wrote on LinkedIn.
She thanked her colleagues and hinted at what is to come, saying, “I’ll be channeling everything I’ve learned into work that empowers bold leaders, fuels meaningful innovation, and creates space for what truly matters. Stay tuned.”
— David McLauchlan is CEO of Everysight, an Israeli-based augmented reality, smart glasses company with a focus on serving cyclists, runners, gamers and other uses. He is based in Bellevue, Wash.
McLauchlan was the CEO of the smart lighting company LIFX, and the CEO and co-founder of Buddy Technologies, a smart home business that he launched in Seattle and later moved to Australia. Early in his career, McLauchlan worked in product and business development at Microsoft for more than a decade.
— Nate Bek is now head of content at venture capital firm Ascend, the Seattle-based firm that backs early stage startups across the Pacific Northwest and is raising its third fund.
“[Bek] brings a stoic calm to our team culture (balancing out some of my mania) while still managing to post the most envy-inducing hiking and cooking photos in our weekly team photo chat,” Ascend founder Kirby Winfield said on LinkedIn.
— Seattle’s WestRiver Group, which backs early- and growth-stage businesses, announced three promotions at its firm:
- Aaron Vaccaro is now managing director and holds roles on the company’s investment team and serves as president of WestRiver portfolio company Singularity Group. Vaccaro has been with WestRiver for more than a decade.
- Harper Ellison, who joined the firm in 2017, is vice president of investor relations.
- Sean Maier was named an investment team director.
— Dr. Neelendu “Neel” Dey of the Fred Hutch Cancer Center is the inaugural recipient of the Kyle Thomas Spane Endowed Chair, a position created to support colon cancer research and prevention. Dey is an associate professor in the Translational Science and Therapeutics Division at Fred Hutch where he studies microbiome science, early detection and colon cancer prevention.
— Fuse, a Bellevue, Wash., venture capital firm, named its 2025 summer interns:
- Celina Kwon, a student at Tufts University studying cognitive and brain science and computer science
- Andrew Park, who is working toward a degree in computer science and business administration at the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California
- Claire Shigo, a student at New York University majoring in economics and minoring in business studies and real estate
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