— Longtime tech leader Lisa Gurry is now chief business officer for GeneDx.
Gurry spent more than 23 years at Microsoft before helping launch Seattle health tech startup Truveta as its chief marketing officer in 2020. She later led operations and growth at Truveta, which reached unicorn status earlier this year after raising $320 million. The company’s technology aggregates medical record data in order to reveal connections between treatments and health outcomes.
Maryland-based GeneDx has created a massive rare disease dataset that links patients’ genomic information with illnesses.
By combining the dataset “with the urgency of our mission, we can accelerate diagnoses for families, fuel drug discovery for biopharma, and deliver data-powered value to health systems,” Gurry said in a statement.
— Healthcare leader Kim Baggett is now director of operations at the Cancer AI Alliance (CAIA), a consortium led by Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center that includes Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Johns Hopkins University.
Baggett was with Seattle Children’s for more than 15 years, including as vice president of center business operations. She joins CAIA from Sage Bionetworks where she was chief operating and financial officer.
— Microsoft board member Carlos Rodriguez will resign following the tech giant’s annual shareholder meeting in December. He joined the board in 2021. Rodriguez was previously CEO of Automatic Data Processing (ADP), a global human resources and payroll company, for 12 years.
— Bellingham, Wash.-based Bible study and sermon preparation platform Logos named Chris Migura as its new CEO, succeeding Bill McCarthy. Migura, who is based in Dallas-Fort Worth, was previously chief financial officer at Logos beginning in 2023.
Logos, founded in 1992 and previously known as Faithlife, has more than 6 million users globally.
McCarthy led Logos for more than a year and is now chair of the organization’s board of directors.
— Temporal, a developer tools startup based in Seattle, named two new appointments:
- John Bonney is now chief financial officer, joining the company from Harness. He previously held senior finance leadership roles at FinancialForce, SAP and elsewhere.
- Jonathan Chadwick, a veteran of VMware joined Temporal’s board of directors, while also holding board seats with Confluent, Databricks, ServiceNow and Zoom.
Temporal also this week closed a $105 million secondary transaction led by GIC, pushing its valuation to $2.5 billion.
— Jennifer Prenner joined the data infrastructure company NetApp as senior vice president of product marketing. Prenner has held marketing leadership roles at companies including Amazon, Rivian, Meta, Verizon and others.
“What excites me most is shaping the story: turning breakthrough technology into clear, inspiring narratives that spark imagination about what is possible,” Prenner said on LinkedIn.
— Justine Hastings joined Bellevue, Wash.-based logistics startup Auger as chief AI economist.
Hastings previously spent seven years at Amazon, most recently in a chief scientist role overseeing human resources data. She’s also an affiliate professor of economics at the University of Washington.
“Justine builds the models that turn macroeconomic and geopolitical signals into intelligent supply chain decisions,” Auger CEO Dave Clark wrote on LinkedIn.
Clark, the former Amazon Worldwide Consumer CEO, has recruited several former Amazon leaders to Auger, which announced a $100 million Series A round in December.
— Stephen Jenkins, a former director and general manager at Amazon Web Services, joined Rowan Digital Infrastructure as chief development officer. Denver-based Rowan designs and builds sustainable hyperscale data centers for global tech giants. Jenkins worked at AWS with Rowan CEO Charley Daitch.
“Jenkins’ leadership in building new AWS regions, coupled with his track record in designing and deploying hyperscale data centers around the world is unmatched,” Daitch said in a statement.
— Bill Platt, former leader of Amazon Web Services’ agentic AI division, joined San Francisco-based Alchemy as COO. Platt’s mandate is “to weave AI agents deeply into blockchain infrastructure,” according to the company. Platt was with AWS for nearly 12 years over two stints, most recently based in the Boston area.
— Clarify co-founder Austin Hay has left the Seattle startup, which launched last year to build an AI-powered customer relationship management platform that automated busy work.
“Consistently, I felt myself pulled down a different path than I envisioned when we started Clarify,” Hay said in a LinkedIn post. “And increasingly lately, that left me feeling torn about my role as we grew, and at odds with the changing nature of the beast we created.”
Hay shared his gratitude for his co-founders and his pride in what the company has built. The startup in June announced $15 million in new funding.
— Chris Duranti joined Govstream.ai as a founding engineer. Duranti was at Socrata for seven years, leaving the role of principal software engineer. He was most recently at Coverage Cat. Govstream.ai uses artificial intelligence to help government leaders improve permitting and urban development processes. Socrata exec Safouen Rabah launched the Seattle-area startup last year.
— Zachary Cohn joined Wizards of the Coast as principal technical product manager for Dungeons & Dragons. Cohn is a serial entrepreneur and comes to Bellevue, Wash.-based Wizards from consumer tech startup Tomorrow. Other past roles include jobs at Spark Hire, Cephalofair Games, DemandStar and others.
— Washington Research Foundation appointed Sen. Jamie Pedersen to its board of directors. Pedersen, the Washington Senate majority leader, has served as a Democratic leader in Olympia for nearly two decades — initially as a state representative before becoming a senator 12 years ago. Early in his career, Pedersen was an attorney at Preston Gates & Ellis, now named K&L Gates.
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