Tilio has hired a former Microsoft engineering leader as CTO. Nintendo exec exec; And more – GeekWire

– Mark Sims Tilillion, a long-time leader of Microsoft engineering, has joined as chief technology officer.

Sims spent 14 years at Microsoft, most recently serving as architect at the CTO office. In Redmond, Wash., The technology giant began in In 2008, he became senior program manager for Microsoft Biztock and SQL’s customer advisory team.

Sims replaces Jeremiah Brazeon, the former CTO of Twilio is now a well-known engineer at Shoppa.

Cloud Communications, a telecommunications company, was officially launched in 2016 and earned $ 2.84 billion last year. As part of a major downturn, stocks fell by about 80% last year.

– Nimrod Vered is now Uplevel’s chief technology officer, which measures the productivity and happiness of software developers. Vered was previously Zipwip’s chief engineering officer, a business start-up and a Uplevel client who earned $ 850 million at Twilio last year.

Vered has played roles in Microsoft, most recently acquiring technology giant Volometrics as a team engineering manager, and was a beginner in employee analytics, where he was vice president of engineering. Vred helped build Microsoft’s analytics and workplace analytics technology and worked at Czech and Cyber ​​Security Company Check Point.

Uplevel announced a new $ 20 million grant on Wednesday, doubling its customer base last year. The Madrona Venture Labs cycle saw a four-hour work week as an experiment last summer to increase employee happiness and productivity.

– Daven Prechard named Nintendo’s Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Communications. Prec. Prior to that, Prechard was the Vice President of Business and Publishing at the company. She has been with Nintendo for 16 years.

Other staff changes in the Pacific Northwest Technology Industry:

• Seattle-based public relations agency Zebra partners Hired Casey Pelkey As Chief Operating Officer. Pelkey ​​moved from Tetris, where he served as vice president for more than a decade. He was also the commercial director of Nintendo.
• Kathy ChooSenior Vice President of SaaS Engineering at Enterprise Cloud Platform NuthanicsQuantum computing company IonQ has been appointed board of directors.
• Isaac Robel Silicon Valley-based information security startup has joined Seclor as its chief marketing officer; He will be in Seattle. Robal has previously held positions in Microsoft and the Seattle area, including Gumuz, GOLF and Extrahope.