Dr. Skylar Olsen is again at Zillow Group.
Olsen spent eight years at the true property big, most lately as senior principal economist, from 2012 to 2020. She returns within the function of chief economist at Zillow, serving to the corporate bolster its market analysis arm.
Olsen, who earned her PhD in economics on the College of Washington in 2013, spent eight months at ClimateCheck after leaving Zillow in 2020. She then took a job as senior director and principal economist at Tomo, a mortgage startup based by two Zillow vets. She additionally runs her personal consultancy, Reimagine Economics.
Zillow additionally lately employed Dr. Orphe Divounguy, former chief economist on the Illinois Coverage Institute, as senior economist.
Different personnel adjustments throughout the Pacific Northwest tech trade:
- Trevor Edwards, former president of Nike, joined the board at Funko, sellers of popular culture toys and collectibles based mostly in Everett, Wash.
- Abed Farhan, former gross sales exec at Vancouver, Wash.-based advertising firm ZoomInfo, joined Portland, Ore.-based buyer information startup Lytics as chief business and technique officer.
- Kathy Ahuja, a safety veteran who labored at OneLogin, DocuSign, Microsoft, Oracle, and Symantec, was named vp of data safety at Seattle information storage startup Qumulo.
- Meredith Han, a former Brooks Operating director, stepped down as vp of product at Seattle actual property startup Flyhomes.
- Robert Locke, a former senior govt at automation big Johnson Controls, joined Seattle AI startup Phaidra as new president and chief technique officer.
- Soojung Smith, a former Microsoft exec and serial entrepreneur, joined Seattle agriculture IoT startup Koidra.
- Chris Sembroski, a Seattle-area information engineer who was one in all 4 crew members on an orbital journey in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, joined Blue Origin as an avionics engineer. Learn extra.