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Tech Moves: Flexe adds former Amazon, Zulily professionals to C-suite; Amazon Game Tech hires improvement lead; and greater

— Flex, a Seattle startup that gives businesses flexible, on-demand warehouse space, delivered two new individuals to its management crew. Deirdre Runnette will serve as the organization’s chief people officer and popular counsel, and David Glick has been named chief era officer. Runnette turned into maximum currently at Zulily, where she worked for six years and changed into senior VP and well-known recommend. Before Zulily, Runnette served as managing corporate recommend at T-Mobile. “I’ve continually been attracted to the vibrancy and innovation inside the Seattle generation network,” Runnette declared. “I sit up for persevering with my career at FLEXE, a corporation prioritizing people and way of life. The team’s energy is palpable.”

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Glick spent nearly two decades with Amazon, where he labored for decades in the logistics department; he was most recently vice president of Amazon Tickets, a live occasion price tag income effort within the UK that shut down ultimate yr. “Logistics era is in my DNA,” Glick declared. “For too many years, I had a front-row seat to the upward thrust of eCommerce and the big changes it spurred in warehousing and success. I joined FLEXE because the on-demand warehousing category they’re pioneering will remodel worldwide logistics inside the equal manner Amazon transformed international commerce.”

“Our technology and human beings are vital to FLEXE’s momentum and success. Deirdre and David’s new roles with us represent our continued, relentless dedication to investing in each,” said Flex CEO Karl Siebrecht. Flex added Matt Millen as leader revenue officer in advance this year, and the business enterprise moved into its new offices in Seattle’s Pioneer Square last month. — Amazon Game Tech hired Jen MacLean as the top of worldwide commercial enterprise improvement for small and mid-length developers. MacLean recently became the executive director at the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). She becomes also the president of StoryArc Media in Boston and CEO of 38 Studios, a recreation business enterprise commenced by baseball star Curt Schilling.

Amazon stated MacLean would be working with developers across the enterprise’s services, consisting of Twitch Prime, Amazon Web Services, Alexa, and Amazon.Com. “I get to use Amazon’s guiding precept of customer obsession to help builders reach each manner viable,” MacLean stated. “Whether developers want help building their video games quicker, launching and working them more correctly, or enhancing advertising and consumer acquisition, I’m here to assist.”

“I’m particularly inspired by how revolutionary developers are blurring the traces between conventional entertainment and video games to redefine what we consider as “video games” and invent new varieties of interaction,” she added. — Seattle regulation firm Focal PLLC hired Lachlan Huck as a lawyer. Focal advises companies inside the technology and media industries, as well as startups. Huck previously gave a legal recommendation to cryptocurrency and hashish startups as a partner legal professional at the law firm Martin Davis. He also turned into a lawyer at scientific device maker Impel Neuropharma and HaloSource, a smooth water tech startup.

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