Tech Moves: WTIA elects new board leadership; Adriane Brown joins American Airlines board
March 4, 2021 at 3:30 pm
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From left to right: Dave Cotter and Kristen Forecki (Dave Cotter and Convoy Photos) The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) elected Dave Cotter as the new chair of its board of directors and Kristen Forecki as vice chair for the next two years.
Cotter is currently chief product officer at cannabis website and marketplace Leafly. He joined the WTIA board four years ago. A serial entrepreneur and veteran of companies including Zulily, Amazon and Microsoft, he has become an advocate for systemic change to dismantle racism in business and tech.
Pulumi
Cloud startup Pulumi hired three new executives who previously worked at Amazon Web Services.
CMO Jay Wampold, director of product marketing George Huang, and VP of marketing Aaron Kao all came on.
Pulumi says the hirings show it.can attract top cloud talent from companies like AWS and Microsoft.
Seattle-based cloud startup Pulumi has poached three former Amazon Web Services executives for its team over the past few months.
Pulumi helps developers easily build and manage applications on any cloud including AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud and automatically manage the resources needed to run those apps. It s become a rising star in Seattle s tech startup scene, and just announced a $37.5 million Series B round last October.
Feature films, shorts and discussions highlight Asian American artists and themes of history, struggle and joy
UCLA
As part of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Film Festival, there will be a special screening of “Chinatown Rising” on Feb. 26. Marisa Soto |
February 9, 2021
The online program includes six features, 13 short films, one television episode and one webisode, all of which offer powerful imagery and poignant commentary about meaningful issues facing Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Audiences will hear from filmmakers and actors about their creative journeys, as well as from scholars, artists and community leaders on themes that apply to today’s world.