— Adriana Gil Miner, a longtime Seattle-area marketing leader, has joined Atlanta-based cybersecurity company Pindrop as its new chief marketing officer.
Miner was previously CMO at marketing startup Iterable and has held leadership roles at multiple Seattle-area companies, serving as senior vice president of marketing for Tableau Software and CMO of both Qumulo and Artefact.
Founded in 2011, Pindrop sells software to help banks, retailers, insurers, and other customers secure their voice-related interactions.
Miner said she’s excited to join Pindrop amid the rise of AI-fueled deepfakes and fraud. She called deepfakes “the hard problem of this AI moment.”
“It’s the ‘dark side’ of GenAI and it sits at the intersection of consumers and B2B. It affects everyday people and the largest enterprises,” she told GeekWire. “Pindrop has the technology, proven scale with 8 out of 10 top banks in the country, and the signal to solve it in real time — across all enterprise communication channels.”
Pindrop CEO Vijay Balasubramaniyan recently spoke to CNBC about the rise of deepfake job candidates.
Pindrop is remote-first and does not have a Seattle-area office. The company landed a $100 million loan last year.
— Pedro Diaz was named chief revenue officer at Kirkland, Wash.-based cybersecurity company Tanium.
Diaz initially joined Tanium last year as SVP of Americas Sales. He previously worked at Cloud Software Group, BMC Software, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
“Tanium is foundational to our customers’ efforts to build a strong offensive security posture by delivering real-time, continuous visibility across their IT environments,” Diaz said in a statement.
Tanium moved its headquarters from San Francisco to the Seattle region at the end of 2020, when it had 1,500 employees. The company, which raised $150 million in early 2021, now has more than 2,000 employees worldwide across 20 offices, and about 70 in the Seattle area.
Tanium earlier this summer named Tara Ryan as its chief marketing officer.
— Chris Parkinson, former CEO of Vancouver, Wash.-based augmented reality headset maker RealWear, was named president of enterprise solutions at Vuzix, a Rochester, N.Y.-based supplier of enterprise smart glasses.
Parkinson helped launch RealWear in 2016 and was the company’s CTO. He became CEO in 2023 and stepped down in January.
Vuzix, which went public in 2021, competes with RealWear in the enterprise smart glasses market. Both companies make head-mounted displays used by customers in construction, manufacturing, and other sectors.
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