Icertis has named Anand Subbaraman as CEO, succeeding Samir Bodas, who will become executive chairman of the Bellevue, Wash.-based contract management software company.
Subbaraman is based in Bangalore, India, and has served as chief operating officer for Icertis for more than a year. He previously held leadership roles at BrowserStack and Finastra, and was with Oracle for more than 17 years.
Bodas co-founded Icertis in 2009 and has been its only CEO. Icertis has raised $500 million, with a $50 million round confirmed in March. It was valued at $5 billion four years ago.
Bodas said he is going “focus on my health” but will partner closely with Subbaraman in the launch of new innovations.
— Smartsheet named Tony Giannino as director of security and compliance for the Bellevue-based enterprise software giant. Giannino is a long-time software engineers and joins Smartsheet from Goldman Sachs, where he was head of technology for risk issue management. He previously worked at Allstate, State Farm and other tech companies.
Earlier this week, Smartsheet announced that CEO Mark Mader was stepping down in September after nearly two decades at the helm. Sunny Gupta, co-founder of Apptio and a longtime Seattle tech leader, is stepping in as executive chair and acting CEO.
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— Airplane manufacturing company Outbound Aerospace announced that David Anderson, a longtime Boeing product development leader, has joined its technical advisory board. Anderson was with the aerospace giant for more than 40 years, leaving the company in 2008 after working on aircraft including the 787 Dreamliner, 747-8, several 777 variants, and enhancements to the 737 family. More recently, he has worked as a consultant in the sector.
Seattle-based Outbound Aerospace is building lightweight passenger aircraft from carbon-fiber and did a flight test with a small-scale prototype in March.
— Carter Rabasa, an entrepreneur, investor and former employee of multiple Seattle-area tech companies, has taken a role at IBM as the head of developer relations and go-to-market for Langflow, an AI development tool.
Rabasa is also a founder at 200 OK Ventures, an angel investing group, and owner of Event Loop, an event management business. He left a role at DataStax to join IBM and was with Twilio for more than five years.
— Graham O’Brien has transitioned from an interim role to become the permanent chief financial officer at ZoomInfo Technologies, as disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Vancouver, Wash.-based ZoomInfo provides a subscription service offering data on businesses to sales, marketing and recruiting professionals.
O’Brien has been with the company for close to eight years and is based in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area, according to LinkedIn.
— York Baur has joined Dallas-based real estate tech company Lone Wolf Technologies as its chief industry relations officer.
Baur was founder and CEO of the Bellevue real estate tech platform MoxiWorks. He stepped down from MoxiWorks’ top leadership role in 2024, and resigned from its board last month. Baur previously launched and ran Peninsula Heritage Productions, a company that promoted Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.
“York [Baur] embodies the same core belief that drives Lone Wolf, that technology should enhance and amplify an agent’s strategy, not compete with it,” said Lone Wolf CEO Jimmy Kelly, on LinkedIn.
— Besmira Nushi is departing Microsoft Research after eight years to become a senior manager at Nvidia in Zurich, Switzerland.
She will be working to understand and compare AI and large language model capabilities with a focus on “evaluation, gap analysis, and regression discovery for a broad range of capabilities for both language and vision modalities,” Nushi said on LinkedIn.
“I am stoked to be able to contribute to the larger mission of measuring and explaining progress in AI, and look forward to this engagement,” Nushi added.
— Jeanette Jackson is now the clean tech national director for RBC, a Canadian investment and banking services firm. Jackson joins RBC from Foresight Canada, a Vancouver-based clean tech accelerator, where she served as CEO for more than seven years.
“Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside brilliant entrepreneurs, investors, industry and ecosystem leaders who are driving Canada’s transition to a net-zero economy,” Jackson said on LinkedIn. “This next chapter is about amplifying that impact with a new network and set of tools.”
— Infoblox, a network management and security services company, appointed Phil Venables to its board of directors. The company is based in the Bay Area, with offices in Tacoma, Wash., and across North America and Asia. Venables previously worked for Google Cloud and Goldman Sachs, and has provided security advice to major companies, government agencies and startups.
