Tech Moves: Remitly CMO leaves; Temporary names EVP; Veeam and Qualtrics leadership changes

– Rina Hahn left Seattle Remit as a senior marketing officer. Hahn joined the remittance company in 2018 as director of digital marketing and rose to CMO four years later. Prior to joining Remitly, he was an executive at Blue Nile and Big Fish Games.

The publicly traded company helps customers in more than 170 countries send money internationally.

“I have seen firsthand the deep love this company has for its customers and the impact that purpose-driven work can have on immigrants and their families around the world,” he said on LinkedIn. Hahn, who lives in London, did not join him next. Remitly founder Matt Oppenheimer stepped down as CEO in February.

– For a while he announced that Preeti Somal has been promoted to senior vice president in a role that will oversee the company’s engineering, product and design operations, recently restructured under one leader.

The industry is moving so fast that “we can’t afford the distance between the people who decide what to build and the people who build it. Merging these jobs closes that log,” CEO Samar Abbas said on LinkedIn.

Somal has been with Temporal for three years, joining HashiCorp where he held EVP roles.

The Seattle-area software company provides a platform for running complex computing workflows with high reliability. In February, the business closed a $300 million round that pushed its valuation to $5 billion. Temporal is No. 2 on the GeekWire 200 is a ranking of the Pacific Northwest’s top startups.

– Veeam softwarea Seattle-based data protection and ransomware recovery company, designated Michelle Graff as senior vice president of global partners and channel. He joins cybersecurity firm Commvault and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

“The future belongs to organizations that can turn reliable data into reliable AI with robustness built in from the ground up,” Graff said on LinkedIn.

Graff’s hiring is the latest in a series of leadership changes at Veeam, which has made five other senior hires or promotions this year.

– Qualtricsan experience management technology company headquartered in Seattle and Provo, Utah, has been promoted Ken Hoang to senior vice president of product. Hoang is based in San Mateo, Calif., and will work remotely. He was previously a VP at Apptio in Bellevue, Wash.

Qualtrics had a major leadership shakeup in April, when five executives were let go in what CEO Jason Maynard described as an effort to “simplify our structure and ensure we are positioned for our next phase of growth.” Two product managers were among those who left, and Hoang joined the company at that time.

Qualtrics, which employs more than 4,500 people worldwide, makes software that helps companies collect and process feedback from customers, employees and others through surveys, AI-powered analytics and other tools.

– Monica Lazo he is now a marketing director Loopr AIa Seattle startup that sells computerized quality control software to manufacturing firms. He joins from Neurala, an automated AI platform for visual inspection based in Boston.

– Pacific Northwest National Laboratory he coined the term space scientist Larry Berg as director of the Department of Energy’s Environmental Radiation Measurement Scale.

And more from Big Tech:

• Mary Birkner he retires Microsoft after 21 years, primarily in leadership with Xbox. “Thank you for the laughter and beauty that has been part of the journey to every great job,” he said on LinkedIn.
• Steve Andrews he closed out a 32-year career spanning more than 11 years between two phases Amazonmost recently as a senior technical program manager. The TPM role is “often misunderstood and misused, so I’ve dedicated a lot of effort helping to set up TPMs, their managers, and their teams for success across the company,” he said. “I hope it makes a difference.”
• Jeff Nienaber it goes Microsoft after more than 16 years, leaving the role of executive director and chief PM in the CTO office. “I’m very excited to see what happens tomorrow,” said Nienaber.