— Google named Hayete Gallot, most recently Microsoft’s corporate vice president of commercial solutions, to the newly created position of president of customer experience for Google Cloud, with plans to shift several Google Cloud teams under her as part of a revamped reporting structure.
Gallot is scheduled to start in the new role on April 1, reporting to Matt Renner, Google Cloud president of global revenue.
Google said these Google Cloud groups will report to Gallot: Strategic Customer Experiences (executive briefing centers and innovation centers), Strategic Accounts, Global Solutions & Industries, Global Customer Engineering, Global Partner Ecosystem & Channels, and Google Cloud Consulting & Learning Services.
The goal is to help customers move quickly from ideas to implementation of new technologies and approaches in their businesses, according to the company. Especially in emerging AI applications, the company cited the importance of working closely with customers and moving quickly to find business value.
No job reductions are expected to result from the new structure.
Gallot worked at Microsoft for 16 years, most recently as corporate vice president for commercial solution areas, which included developing and leading Microsoft’s plan for selling and rolling out products to businesses. She also oversaw more than 150 Microsoft innovation centers globally.
Prior to that, Gallot held several senior positions at Microsoft, including vice president for modern work and security, general manager and chief of staff for global sales and marketing, and general manager for growth at Microsoft Office.
Before joining Microsoft, she spent more than a decade at telecom firm Nortel.
She earned a master’s degree in engineering from INSA Lyon and an MBA from IAE France. Originally from France, she is fluent in French and English, and lives in Mercer Island, Wash., with her husband and two sons.
— Jeff Dossett, chief revenue officer for Seattle’s Impinj, will retire from his role on Feb. 21, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Dossett was with the company, which makes RFID tagging devices, for nearly eight years. He has held leadership roles at companies including Yahoo, Leaf Group, Porch, Good Worldwide and others. His is also a co-founder and advisor for Compass Construction Resources.
Dossett started his career at Microsoft, where he worked for roughly 17 years ending in 2008. His final role was executive director and general manager of MSN.
Impinj has not announced Dossett’s replacement.
— Docugami, a Kirkland, Wash., generative AI document management startup, has hired a slate of new employees. Eric Amblard, is now chief financial officer, coming to the role from Seattle’s Shiftboard. Amblard has previously held CFO and executive roles at multiple companies, primarily in Silicon Valley.
Other hires include:
- Dan Blanchard, head of sales, coming from Snowflake
- Greg Renard, head of applied machine learning, from Frontier Development Lab
- Daniel LeBlanc, machine learning engineer, from McKinsey
- Vishnou Vinayagame, AI scientist based in Toronto
- Amine Jelloul AI science intern and graduate of University of California, Berkeley
— Washington State University announced Elizabeth Cantwell as its 12th president, and first female head of the university. Cantwell was previously president of Utah State University, which includes 30 campuses and centers across the state.
Cantwell has a doctorate in mechanical engineering and has held roles at multiple national labs as well as the departments of Energy and Defense, the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and NASA.
Cantwell will succeed Kirk Schulz, who has served as WSU’s president since 2016.
— Matt Welsh is now at Palantir Technologies as head of AI systems, applying AI to “critical problems of national security,” Welsh said on LinkedIn.
Welsh is also the founder of Ziggylabs, which he describes as a vehicle for his AI side projects. Welsh came to Palantir from Seattle’s Aryn where he was chief architect. He was previously a co-founder of Fixie, a senior vice president of engineering at OctoML and a principal engineer at Google for nearly nine years, among other jobs.
— Fortive announced that its precision technologies segment has become an independent, public company named Ralliant. The new company is providing technologies for customers in test and measurement and specialty sensors, as well as in aerospace, defense and space subsystems. Tami Newcombe will service as president and CEO of Ralliant.
Fortive, which is an Everett, Wash.-based manufacturing conglomerate, last week reported financial results for 2024 and the fourth quarter of the year, disclosing that revenues increased 3% year-over-year to $6.23 billion in 2024.
Other Ralliant and Fortive leadership changes:
- Ganesh Moorthy is expected to join Ralliant’s board of directors when the company spins off.
- Alan Spoon, chair of Fortive’s board, and Fortive board member Kate Mitchell are also expected to leave their Fortive board roles and be appointed to the Ralliant board. Mitchell will retain her role as a director of Fortive.
- Sharmistha “Shar” Dubey will replace Spoon as the chair of Fortive’s board.
— Longtime Microsoft director Jill Tracy is now CEO of United Planet, a nonprofit working to create a global community through volunteer abroad programs, internships abroad and held virtually, and exchange programs.
Tracy left Microsoft after more than 21 years, departing from the role of director of sales operations for business applications.
— Michelle Flandreau is now vice president of e-commerce for Holland America Line, a longstanding cruise company with offices in Seattle. Flandreau’s past experience includes offering marketing consulting for startups and roles at Guidant Financial, Liquid Planner, Expedia and Nordstrom, among others.
— Skip Newberry, president and CEO of the Technology Association of Oregon (TAO), is serving as an honorary consul for the Northern European nation of Estonia. Newberry has led the Portland-based TAO for 13 years.
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