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Srinivasan Gopalan will take over a T-Mobile’s chief operating officer in March. (T-Mobile Photo)
— T-Mobile announced Srinivasan Gopalan as its new chief operating officer beginning March 1.
Gopalan is a telecom vet who has been a board member for the Bellevue, Wash., company for nearly four years. He previously held roles at T-Mobile UK, Bharti Airtel, Capital One, Vodafone, and Deutsche Telekom AG, the majority owner of T-Mobile.
As COO he will lead T-Mobile’s technology initiatives and go-to-market operations across consumer and business groups. Gopalan will report to CEO Mike Sievert.
“I’ve worked with Mike Sievert and his entire management team for many years as a board member, and I’m looking forward to joining management in my new leadership role to build on T-Mobile’s momentum,” Gopalan said on LinkedIn.
Kenny Daniel, founder of Hyperparam. (HyperParam Photo)
— Algorithmia co-founders Kenny Daniel and Diego Oppenheimer are partnering again at a new startup called Hyperparam. The Seattle company is developing a technology that allows users to “inspect, filter, and annotate massive datasets at scale,” Oppenheimer said on LinkedIn.
Daniel is the founder of Hyperparam and Oppenheimer is interim head of product.
Boston-based DataRobot acquired Algorithmia, a machine learning software company, in 2021.
Diego Oppenheimer, interim head of product at Hyperparam (LinkedIn Photo)
Oppenheimer is also co-founder and board member for Guardrails AI, which bills itself as “the framework to make generative AI safe, secure and reliable.” Daniel spent six months last year as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Madrona Venture Group. Both Oppenheimer and Daniel held brief roles at Numbers Station AI since Algorithmia’s acquisition.
Hyperparam’s advisors include Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub; University of Washington Professor Jeffrey Heer; and founder of Hugging Face Clem Delangue.
— REI president and CEO Eric Artz is retiring. The head of the Issaquah, Wash.-based consumer co-op will leave his post in March.
Mary Beth Laughton, who was CEO of Athleta for three years ending in 2023, will take the helm of the nearly century-old outdoor gear company. She is leaving a role at Nike, where she was head of global direct to consumer. Laughton served on REI’s board of directors ending in 2019.
REI has struggled financially in recent years and laid off hundreds of employees after a COVID-fueled surge in business.
— Adam Derry — a Seattle attorney that for 12 years has represented startups, founders and venture capital investors — announced that he’s launching his own firm, called Blue Horizon Legal.
