— Stanford professor Susan Athey, a former consulting chief economist at Microsoft, will be part of the U.S. Division of Justice as its high antitrust economist, Bloomberg reported. Athey consulted with Microsoft from 2007 to 2013, the place her experience included huge information analytics, antitrust and coverage regarding web search and internet marketing. Her regulatory efforts on the tech large included antitrust investigations towards Google.
Athey joins the Justice division because it prepares for a trial towards Google and investigates Apple. Bloomberg reported that she is more likely to be recused from these circumstances due to her earlier work, which incorporates serving as an skilled in an antitrust go well with towards Apple.
Athey’s transfer additionally comes because the U.S. Federal Commerce Fee and different regulators scrutinize Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of online game firm Activision Blizzard. Amazon can also be going through antitrust investigations within the U.S., U.Ok., and E.U.
Athey just lately resigned from the Expedia board of administrators, and introduced plans to step down from the board of Seattle pet sitting firm Rover in August.
— Tom Keane, a Microsoft company vp who performed a key position in constructing the Workplace 365 and Azure companies, is leaving the corporate after 21 years, he posted in LinkedIn.
Keane was one of many topics of a current Insider report on claims of poisonous conduct inside the corporate. The report included allegations that he engaged in verbal abuse of workers.
We’ve contacted him for touch upon his causes for leaving Microsoft, and his future plans. He wrote on LinkedIn, “I couldn’t be prouder of the final 21 years, and equally excited for my subsequent journey to start.”
Bloomberg Information first reported on Keane’s departure.
— Jody Bailey left Amazon Internet Providers, the place he was director of software program improvement, for a place as chief expertise officer at Stack Overflow.
Bailey spent greater than three years at AWS, and beforehand was head of expertise at Pluralsight. He additionally held engineering management positions at AtTask, Vovici, VeriSign, and Vastera.
Bailey, based mostly in Seattle, will lead product engineering, platform engineering, info safety, and IT groups at Stack Overflow, a developer useful resource. The corporate raised a $85 million Collection E spherical in July 2020.
Different personnel modifications throughout the Pacific Northwest tech business:
- Jennifer Mullin, previously vp of selling at cybersecurity agency Malwarebytes, is now chief advertising officer at DreamBox Studying. She beforehand additionally held advertising roles at Leapfrog Enterprises, Visa, Evite and Hole.
- Shivani Patel, previously director of gross sales at Amplitude, joined augmented writing firm Textio as its vp of gross sales.
Up to date with information of Tom Keane’s departure from Microsoft. Startup’s Todd Bishop contributed to this report.