• Tue. Mar 19th, 2024

Tech Moves: Providence leader returns to Amazon Seattle advertising vet joins LiveRamp and more

Jessica Shapiro. (LiveRamp Photo / Noah Berger)

— Jessica Shapiro will join LiveRamp as its chief marketing and advertising officer. Shapiro is promoting veteran, formerly doing work in management roles at corporations which includes Microsoft, Starbucks, Zulily, and SAP Concur. She was most recently a vice president at Bellevue, Wash.-based startup Icertis.

Shapiro will control world wide advertising for LiveRamp, a publicly traded facts management firm serving large enterprises. Its profits is envisioned to surpass $500 million this fiscal year. The business is based in San Francisco Shapiro will stay in Seattle.

“In this elaborate business, there is no company superior positioned than LiveRamp to make it protected and simple to provide breakthrough expansion with details,” Shapiro reported in a assertion.

Aaron Martin, the chief digital officer and chief of health and fitness tech innovation at Providence St. Joseph Overall health. (GeekWire Photograph / Kevin Lisota)

Aaron Martin, government vice president and main digital officer for Providence, is heading back again to Amazon as a vice president of wellbeing, according to Bloomberg.

Martin invested additional than eight decades at Providence in Seattle, the place he led the wellbeing nonprofit’s undertaking capital arm Providence Ventures and its inside startup incubator.

Martin is also a former Amazon executive who previously constructed the company’s self-publishing and print-on-demand from customers small business for Kindle North The united states.

Amazon has rolled out many healthcare-associated solutions and companies, including a digital care platform termed Amazon Treatment, as perfectly as Amazon Pharmacy. Late previous year Amazon consolidated its healthcare groups underneath Amazon senior government Neil Lindsay, a essential determine in the development of the company’s Kindle and Key firms. Martin will report to Lindsay.

Other staff adjustments throughout the Pacific Northwest tech industry:

  • João Freitas departed from Outlined.ai, a Seattle-based synthetic intelligence startup, where by he served as the chief technologies officer. He is now normal supervisor at PagerDuty. Russ Vetrano, a different Defined exec, left in February.
  • Shari Doherty, a former director of PR at Amazon, joined Andreessen Horowitz as internet marketing husband or wife for the firm’s crypto group.
  • Nick Milne-Dwelling and Mostafa Ahmed joined a Seattle-place enterprise mentoring system Chronus as chief income officer and main fiscal officer, respectively.
  • John Nelson, previous Centric Consulting organization enhancement guide, joined TalentReach as strategic accounts govt centered on premium employees augmentation.
  • Nirav H. Shah, Alertive Health care founder and a typical supervisor at Carbon Well being, joined TENZR Health’s advisory board. TENZR specializes in tech-enabled bodily therapy gadgets.
  • Raymond Silverstien joined the advisory board of Seattle authentic estate startup CityBldr as the worldwide development operations lead for Starbucks.
  • Urvit Goel, previously a senior manager at Amazon, joined Polygon Engineering as vice president of gaming business enterprise advancement. Charnjit Bansi also joined as vice president of video game layout.
  • Suhas Narayanaswamy, principal at Lewis and Clark AgriFood, joined the board of IUNU, a Seattle agtech startup.
  • Julia Williams, an eye treatment field veteran, joined Visus Therapeutics, a Seattle-space pharmaceutical firm, as vice president of clinical and professional medical affairs.
  • Sarah Gregory joined doxo, a Seattle-region firm that assists folks fork out costs, as vice president of people today. Rob Stone also joined as vice president of functions.

GeekWire Running Editor Taylor Soper contributed to this story.