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Outreach Chief Marketing Officer Holly Simmons (left), and Chief Revenue Officer Nadia Rashid. (Outreach Photos)
— Seattle sales automation company Outreach added two leaders to its C-suite: Chief Revenue Officer Nadia Rashid and Chief Marketing Officer Holly Simmons.
Rashid was previously a senior vice president at Seismic, another sales enablement company, and was a VP of sales at Marketo prior to that.
Simmons was global vice president of product marketing at Diligent, and held leadership roles at Oracle, ServiceNow, and SAP.
The new execs will report to Outreach CEO Abhijit Mitra, who was named CEO in September, taking over for co-founder and longtime leader Manny Medina, who remains with the company as executive chairman of the board.
Outreach previously held the No. 1 spot on the GeekWire 200, our list of privately held startups in the Pacific Northwest, but recently dropped amid its cost-cutting measures. The company has nearly 700 employees and has raised almost $500 million to date.
Peter Hill, CTO at Synthesia. (LinkedIn Photo)
— Peter Hill, a former Amazon Web Services vice president who worked at Amazon for 25 years before joining Seattle-based Wildlife Studios as chief product officer and then CEO, has been hired by London-based enterprise AI video communications platform Synthesia as chief technology officer.
Hill’s new role was announced Tuesday in conjunction with Synthesia’s closing of a $180 million funding round from existing investors including GV, and new backers including WiL (World Innovation Lab), Atlassian Ventures, and PSP Growth.
— Seattle’s Fred Hutch Cancer Center announced new research awards and project funding for faculty members:
Dr. Geoffrey Hill received the Leonard and Norma Klorfine Endowed Chair for Clinical Research, which will help to fund his research in transplant immunology.
Biostatistician Peter Gilbert and his team received $17 million from the Center for Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to research the next generation of COVID-19 vaccines.
Lonnie A. Nelson, Dr. Jason Mendoza and Myra Parker won $16.7 million of funding over five years from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities. The money will support efforts targeting Indigenous communities and include smoking cessation and lung cancer screening.
