Tech Strikes: Twitch names CTO; Highspot provides board member; Apptio promotes gross sales chief
— Amazon-owned stay streaming platform Twitch named Christine Weber as its new CTO.
Weber was most lately chief data officer and interim chief expertise officer at communications firm Liberty Latin America. She was beforehand an engineering govt at Sling TV and EchoStar Company.
In April, the most recent State of the Stream report discovered that Twitch viewership was up 105% from final yr. Amazon acquired San Francisco-based Twitch in 2014 for $970 million in money.
— Former Informatica President Tracey Newell joined the board of gross sales enablement startup Highspot. She beforehand was a world gross sales govt at Proofpoint, Polycom and Cisco.
Newell at present serves on the board of Sailpoint and Sumo Logic. She can also be an advisor for Blackrock’s Lengthy Time period Personal Capital technique.
Highspot raised a $200 million Collection E spherical in February at a $2.3 billion valuation. The Seattle startup’s software program goals to assist make salespeople extra environment friendly.
— E-commerce startup Cloth introduced Tyler Nemiro as vp of gross sales. The Bellevue, Wash.-based firm accomplished a $43 million Collection A funding spherical in February.
Based mostly in Las Vegas, Nemiro was most lately director of enterprise gross sales in North America for Shopify Plus. He beforehand labored in gross sales at Adobe Commerce, previously often known as Magneto.
— Cloud-based IT administration firm Apptio promoted Toyan Espeut to chief buyer officer.
Espeut joined Apptio in 2013 and was most lately EVP of worldwide account administration. She was beforehand a gross sales director at Accenture.
Bellevue, Wash.-based Apptio went non-public through a non-public fairness deal in 2019 and introduced the corporate’s fourth acquisition earlier this yr.
— Seattle-based Whitepages appointed Cam Nguyen as VP of product technique and growth.
Nguyen was most lately chief product officer at Invoice Gates-backed suggestion startup Likewise.
Nguyen beforehand labored at Amazon and Amazon Internet Providers the place she labored on the Amazon Rapids’ tales app and Amazon sport companies. She co-founded cellular sport consultancy MadFin Video games and was a senior product supervisor at Large Fish Video games.
— Sqoop founder Invoice Hankes joined Forbes as chief communications officer. He was beforehand the director of PR for Microsoft’s Bing and a VP of company communications at RealNetworks.
“Forbes represents the wedding of two private passions, journalism and entrepreneurship,” mentioned Hankes.
Hankes shall be chargeable for Forbes’ world company communications technique and can report back to CEO Mike Federle.
