Tech Strikes: Seattle advertising and marketing vet joins Loads of Fish; DocuSign CEO steps down; and extra
— Christina Kozloff joined Vancouver, B.C.-based courting app firm Loads of Fish as chief advertising and marketing officer. Kozloff was beforehand VP of selling at Residence Checklist, VP of world advertising and marketing at Seattle-based Rosetta Stone, head of name advertising and marketing at authorized providers agency Avvo, and held positions at Microsoft and Expedia.
Loads of Fish is a part of giant world on-line courting firm Match Group, and goals to supply a “much less prescriptive, low-pressure consumer expertise.”
— Doug Herrington, a veteran of Amazon’s shopper enterprise, will probably be promoted to the brand new position of CEO of Worldwide Amazon Shops following the departure of high shopper exec Dave Clark. Learn extra.
— DocuSign CEO Dan Springer has stepped down. Springer grew to become CEO in 2017 and helped take the corporate public in 2018.
Chairman of the board Mary Agnes “Maggie” Wilderotter has been appointed interim CEO as the corporate searches for a substitute. Wilderotter, previously a senior vp at Microsoft and CEO of Frontier Communications, can be a director at Costco, Lyft, and Sana Biotechnology.
The e-signature large joined the Nasdaq 100 in June 2020 and noticed a giant enhance from the pandemic-fueled digital acceleration. However the firm’s inventory worth has dropped greater than 80% from its excessive final fall, and its most up-to-date earnings fell beneath analyst expectations.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Docusign was based in Seattle in 2003 and nonetheless has a major workforce within the metropolis.
Different personnel modifications throughout the Pacific Northwest tech business:
- Starbucks‘ head of North America Rossann Williams departed the corporate and will probably be changed by Sara Trilling, former Starbucks president of Asia Pacific.
- Tanushree Podder, a software program engineer who was beforehand an funding banking affiliate at Merrill Lynch, is a brand new enterprise capital investor at Bellevue, Wash.-based Trilogy Fairness Companions.
- Asha Sharma resigned from the board of administrators of dwelling providers firm Porch Group. She is the COO of Instacart and was beforehand COO at Porch.
- Daniel Robbins, product designer at Meta’s VR on-line online game Horizon Worlds, resigned from the corporate.
- Jeff Henshaw is retiring from Microsoft, the place he’s accomplice group supervisor for quantum computing, after 30 years on the firm.
- Former NFL quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick is becoming a member of Amazon’s “Thursday Night time Soccer” broadcast.
