— Mitali Pattnaik, a former head of product management and senior director at LinkedIn, joined Seattle startup Syndio as its new chief product officer.
Pattnaik spent more than six years at LinkedIn in several product management roles. She led the company’s LinkedIn Sales Solutions team. She previously founded a sales startup called IntroHQ and held roles at Twitter, Google, Electronic Arts, Yahoo, and Microsoft.
Founded in 2017, Syndio analyzes workplace pay equity issues and provides strategies for fixing disparities. Customers include Siemens, Sweetgreen, American Airlines, Nordstrom, and others. The company has raised more than $83 million.
Last month the company hired longtime engineering leader Nimrod Vered as its senior vice president of engineering.
— Jaime Teevan, Microsoft chief scientist and technical fellow, joined the board of image and video giant Shutterstock.
A former technical advisor to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Teevan leads Microsoft’s Future of Work initiative, which brings together researchers from Microsoft, LinkedIn, and GitHub to study how the pandemic has changed work.
“Her wealth of knowledge and experience in AI, deep roots in rigorous research and expertise in advancements in ethical AI will be invaluable as Shutterstock continues to play a critical role in this space, for example with our industry leading training data,” Shutterstock board chairman Jon Oringer said in a statement.
— Kristen Russell, a longtime communications leader, joined Seattle-area reusable rocket startup Stoke Space as vice president of marketing, brand, and communications. She was most recently at Zillow and spent time at Smartsheet, Allrecipes, and WE Communications.
— Rich Krutsch was named president of the U.S. employers business group at Seattle healthcare software startup Abett. Krutsch was previously a vice president at ArcBest and most recently worked at Stephens.
— Eric Wexler will be the new CEO and president of Renton, Wash.-based health system Providence, effective Jan. 1 of next year. He joined Providence in 2016 and is currently COO.
— David Borges was named chief accounting officer at Seattle biotech company Omeros. Borges joined the company in 2020 and was previously a finance leader at Bulletproof 360.
— Kristen Hamilton, a startup veteran based in Seattle, is now an advisor to the CEOs at Berlin-based urology care company Kranus Health.
— Janet Kim started a new position at Microsoft as senior communications manager for data centers. She previously led PR efforts at Microsoft for the energy industry.
— Rob Ó Callaghan joined market research tech startup QuantifyAI as chief technology officer. He previously worked at Meta and Google.
— Andrew Kennedy was promoted to chief traceability officer at Seattle food supply tech startup iFoodDS.