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

— Kurt John, former chief cybersecurity officer for Siemens Usa, joined Expedia as international main stability officer. John will be accountable for IT safety, actual physical safety and privateness.

John expended approximately six several years at Siemens. He also serves on the advisory board at protection 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 dependent in Fairfax Station, Va., where by he is on the board of administrators of the Virginia chamber of commerce.

— Longtime Microsoft engineer Jeffrey Snover is leaving the tech big. Snover is currently CTO for modern-day office transformation and is a complex fellow. He joined Microsoft in 1999. “It is time for me to consider one thing new,” claimed Snover in a LinkedIn write-up.

— Paul Moore will join Zymeworks as main scientific officer. He moves from antibody therapeutics business MacroGenics, exactly where he was vice president for mobile biology and immunology. Moore also was previously director of mobile biology at Celera.

Previously this 12 months, Zymeworks announced it was laying off 25% of its workforce and shaking up management roles as it focuses on driving its lead antibody-based mostly drug applicant as a result of a late-phase scientific trial for cancer. The business is also tests yet another candidate in early trials and “streamlined” its R&D strategy. Zymeworks is also fending off a takeover endeavor.

Other staff variations 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 join Twilio as a senior director, major job management for the developer experience. He is leaving a situation as director of job management at DocuSign.
• Attorney Michael O’Shaughnessy joined psychedelics startup CaaMTech as director of intellectual home. CaaMTech develops makes and patents distinctive psychedelic compounds and formulations. The corporation has a lot more than 200 pending patent apps and issued patents.