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Eva Schoenleitner, Smartsheet’s vice president of partner. (Smartsheet Photo)
Eva Schoenleitner joined enterprise software giant Smartsheet as vice president of partner.
Schoenleitner has extensive experience working in Europe and was previously the CEO of Crate.io, an enterprise software startup headquartered in California. She has also served as the group vice president of digital partnerships at the Swiss company ABB. Schoenleitner spent 11 years at Microsoft, leaving a senior director role in the Windows business unit.
“Under Eva’s leadership, and with her outstanding and tenured experience, Smartsheet will continue to strengthen and expand our partner ecosystem,” Steve Quinn, Smartsheet’s senior vice president for go-to-market strategy and operations, said in a statement.
Bellevue, Wash.-based Smartsheet is preparing to go private again following a $8.4 billion deal with Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone, announced in September. The deal is expected to close by the end of this month.
Zuhairah Washington, senior vice president of market operations and Flex general manager at Zillow Group. (Zillow Photo)
— Zillow Group hired Zuhairah Washington as senior vice president of market operations and Flex general manager.
Washington previously held leadership roles at fashion platform Otrium, including CEO. She was also global head of strategic partners at Expedia Group and served as general manager in multiple roles at Uber, among other jobs.
At Zillow, Washington will lead Flex, a program supporting real estate agents working with home buyers.
Last week, Seattle-based Zillow laid off an unspecified number of employees.
Sean Blitchok, chief financial officer at Zenoti. (LinkedIn Photo)
— Zenoti, a Seattle-area company providing enterprise software for more than 30,000 spas, salons and other wellness businesses, appointed two new leaders.
Chief Financial Officer Sean Blitchok joins the company from digital banking company MeridianLink. His previous roles include leadership at Salesforce and Hewlett-Packard.
Doug Sechrist is now senior vice president of marketing, and was formerly chief marketer for CB Insights.
Stephen Konig, Seattle-based director of product management for Meta. (LinkedIn Photo)
— Stephen Konig joined Meta as a director of product management leading work on Horizon OS to provide apps for Meta’s VR and AR devices.
Konig was previously CEO of Mudita Studios, a venture capital studio in Seattle affiliated with Mudita Venture Partners, and worked at Google for nearly 12 years.
The decision to leave Mudita “was bittersweet,” Konig said on LinkedIn. “But the opportunity to work on the next computing platform with amazing folks was one I couldn’t pass up.”
— The Microsoft Alumni Network, a member organization representing more than 200,000 former Microsoft employees, made a series of appointments to its board of directors.
Mike Novasio was named the Alumni Network’s new board chair. Novasio spent 27 years at Microsoft, focusing on the company’s digital transformation and building the teams, process and technical financial solutions for services ranging from Live Meeting to Office 365.
Tameka McNair was named board vice chair. McNair is Microsoft’s HR director of customer engagement, and the Alumni Network’s executive sponsor at the company.
Also named board vice chair was Dawn Trudeau, who worked in areas including consumer products, and database and development tools, during her 14 years at the company. Trudeau is co-owner of the Seattle Storm.
Sarah Pan was named board treasurer. Pan held a variety of director-level finance roles at Microsoft, in areas including business applications, Office 365 and Microsoft China.
Amy Strande was appointed board secretary. Strande is the senior director and chief of staff of HR Services and Digital Employee Experiences at Microsoft.
New board members of the Microsoft Alumni Network are Kevin Espirito, Larry Hryb, and Trish Millines Dziko.
Auger engineers from left: Sachi Patel, Debakar Shamanta and J. Craig Lewis. (LinkedIn Photos)
— Auger, the new Bellevue, Wash.-based supply chain tech startup founded by former Amazon Worldwide Consumer CEO Dave Clark, announced the hire of three new engineers from Amazon: Sachi Patel, Debakar Shamanta and J. Craig Lewis.
Auger last month named its initial 11-person executive team, with many former Amazon leaders joining the startup. In October, it disclosed a $100 million Series A funding round.
— Redfin’s past president of real estate services, Adam Wiener, is now president of Lower, an Ohio-based home finance company. In his role, Wiener will oversee technology, marketing, data science and direct-to-consumer sales organizations. Wiener left Redfin in 2023, and has served in advisor and board member roles.
— Augmodo, a Seattle startup building tech to help retailers track their inventory, added three new engineers: Kevin Rauwolf, Kyle Machulis and Sean Hong. The trio comes from Grabango, a startup that developed checkout-free technology for large chain stores and shutdown in October after running out of funding.
Augmodo in October disclosed that it raised $5.3 million in seed funding.
— James Miles joined Seattle’s Path with Art as its chief strategic officer. Miles is also an assistant professor at Seattle University and was previously the creative economy manager for the City of Seattle’s Office of Economic Development. He has been executive director of arts organizations including Bumbershoot and Arts Corps.
The nonprofit Path with Art helps address trauma with arts engagement and community building.
— Richard Giersch stepped down from his role as Life Science Washington Institute’s president and executive director. Giersch is now a consultant with the institute, focusing on its state and federal partnership program. He is also working as senior vice president of Life Science Works, a consulting group helping entrepreneurs land federal grants.
— Pacific Northwest National Laboratory geochemist Kevin Rosso was named a Battelle Fellow, which is the lab’s highest recognition for leadership and accomplishment in science. The honor is awarded to less than 0.5% of PNNL scientists.
Rosso works in molecular geochemistry at the U.S. Department of Energy lab, and his research includes geologic carbon sequestration, optimizing lithium battery materials, and designing semiconductor materials for solar power.
— Seattle biotech startup A-Alpha Bio hired Drew Duglan as its director of scientific communications. Duglan previously worked in communications at Sage Bionetworks and Scripps Research. Last year, A-Alpha Bio announced news of a $14.5 million award from the Department of Defense (DOD) for help preparing for future biological threats.
— Kymeta Corp. added two new members to its board of advisors: James Geurts, a longtime leader in the national security sector, and Elizabeth Kimber, a veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency. Kymeta, which is based in Redmond, Wash., builds panel antenna tech for satellite communications.
— Matt Medlin joined the board of directors at Seattle nonprofit Ada Developers Academy. The long-time CPA is the tech sector lead at Clark Nuber PS. Ada, which trains under-represented people in tech for careers in software development, recently slashed its headcount and has refocused its programming.
— Biotech startup Umoja welcomed Dr. Campbell Murray, senior adviser at Double Point Ventures, to its board of directors. The cancer therapy company on Tuesday announced $100 million of new funding.
— Seattle tech vet Paul Marciante joined property management software startup LeadSimple as senior vice president/head of finance. Marciante previously worked at RocketReach, Ripl, Stakana and other companies.
— E-commerce logistics startup Pipe17 hired Kelly Goetsch as its first chief operations officer. Goetsch was previously chief strategy officer at commercetools, a German company supporting digital commerce with worldwide operations. He also co-founded and led the MACH Alliance, an industry group promoting MACH (microservices, APIs, cloud-based and headless) technologies. Pipe17 on Friday also announced $15.5 million in new funding.
