Expedia hires chief security officer; Microsoft technical fellow departing; and more – GeekWire

— Kurt John, previous main cybersecurity officer for Siemens United states, joined Expedia as international main safety officer. John will be dependable for IT protection, physical security and privacy.

John invested approximately six a long time at Siemens. He also serves on the advisory board at security startup Titanium and on the innovation advisory committee at George Mason University. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

John will be based mostly in Fairfax Station, Va., exactly where he is on the board of directors of the Virginia chamber of commerce.

— Longtime Microsoft engineer Jeffrey Snover is leaving the tech big. Snover is currently CTO for modern day workplace transformation and is a complex fellow. He joined Microsoft in 1999. “It is time for me to check out a thing new,” reported Snover in a LinkedIn post.

— Paul Moore will sign up for Zymeworks as chief scientific officer. He moves from antibody therapeutics organization MacroGenics, exactly where he was vice president for cell biology and immunology. Moore also was beforehand director of mobile biology at Celera.

Previously this year, Zymeworks introduced it was laying off 25% of its workforce and shaking up leadership roles as it focuses on driving its guide antibody-based mostly drug prospect via a late-phase scientific trial for most cancers. The corporation is also screening an additional candidate in early trials and “streamlined” its R&D strategy. Zymeworks is also fending off a takeover try.

Other personnel changes throughout the Pacific Northwest tech field:

• The Seattle Seahawks reportedly employed two new analytics gurus — Becca Erenbaum from the New York Knicks and Peter Engler from the Charlotte Thunder.
• Eduard Koller will be part of Twilio as a senior director, leading project management for the developer practical experience. He is leaving a posture as director of job administration at DocuSign.
• Legal professional Michael O’Shaughnessy joined psychedelics startup CaaMTech as director of mental residence. CaaMTech develops creates and patents various psychedelic compounds and formulations. The firm has more than 200 pending patent programs and issued patents.