Tech Moves: C-suite exec leaves Microsoft for Alaska Airlines; Amazon leaders depart; HashiCorp CTO resigns

Lindsay-Rae McIntyre is the new chief people officer at Seattle-based Alaska Airlines. She joins the airline from Microsoft, where she most recently served as chief diversity officer and corporate VP of Talent and Learning.

“There is a vast, complex world counting on Microsoft to help bend the arc of the future toward good,” McIntyre said in LinkedIn post framed as a two-part letter to the tech giant and her new employer.

“I am honored to have been part of this transformation for the past eight years,” she said of her time at Microsoft. “Please take good care of one another, and of our customers.”

Addressing the combined teams at Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines, McIntyre noted deep family ties to the industry: her grandfather and uncle were pilots for Air Canada, and her aunt was a flight attendant. “I grew up in awe of airplanes and of the extraordinary people who make air travel possible,” she said.

Prior to Microsoft, McIntyre was with IBM for more than 18 years serving in top leadership roles.

— Armon Dadgar, the Seattle-based co-founder and chief technology officer for HashiCorp, is leaving the infrastructure software company. Dadgar launched HashiCorp in 2012 with co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto after the two graduated from the University of Washington. IBM acquired the San Francisco company for $6.4 billion last year.

“For me, HashiCorp was always more than a job, and I’ve always felt a deep sense of responsibility for the people, products, customers, and community,” Dadgar said on LinkedIn. “The role I’ve played has always been rewarding, but equally it has been demanding.”

Dadgar, whose last day at HashiCorp is Friday, said he will take time to “pause and recharge” and will be moving from Seattle to New York City.

— Damon Lanphear is the new chief technology officer at Artera, a company using agentic AI to help healthcare providers communicate with patients. Lanphear joins the company from Amazon, where he spent more than five years across two stints, most recently as a director of engineering. He previously held the same title at AWS.

A veteran of the Seattle health-tech scene, Lanphear was the CTO for pioneering telehealth startup 98point6 for nearly seven years, joining that company at its inception.

Lanphear will work in a hybrid role for the Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Artera.

— Atul Deo has joined SAP as senior VP and global head of AI Product Management and Partnerships, where he will lead work on the company’s AI assistant and broader AI platform. Based in Seattle, Deo will work in a hybrid role for the German-headquartered software giant.

Deo joins SAP from Amazon, where he spent nearly 12 years and was the founder and general manager for Amazon Bedrock, the flagship generative AI platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

“This next chapter is a deliberate shift. It brings together my experience with a deeper focus on how AI is applied to business processes and outcomes,” Deo said on LinkedIn. “The opportunity to make AI genuinely useful in real systems of record and decision-making is what drew me here.”

— John He is spearheading the launch of the first U.S. office for PixVerse, a Singapore-based video generation startup. Serving as U.S. general manager, builder and chief of staff, He is setting up the new office in Bellevue, Wash.

He spent more than a decade at Microsoft early in his career, departing in 2018, and most recently came to PixVerse from Salesforce. His background also includes co-founding MinMax AI and a tenure at Alibaba Group.

— Abdurazak Mudesir is resigning from the T-Mobile board of directors, effective today. The Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier disclosed the news in a recent SEC filing.

— Starcloud, a startup building solar-powered, space-based data centers, has added Benchmark general partner Chetan Puttagunta to its board of directors as part of a $170 million funding round announced Monday. The Redmond, Wash.-based company has achieved unicorn status with a $1.1 billion valuation.

— Glynis Thakur is joining Inmedix as chief revenue officer. The Normandy Park, Wash.-based startup is developing medical diagnostic tools related to stress biology.

— Nicholas Anderson, former chief technologist for Cool Amps, is now materials chemist for Seattle startup Emerald Battery Labs. Anderson’s past roles include director of R&D for BlueDot Photonics.