— Brian Piper, a longtime biotech leader, is the new CFO at Seattle-based Sana Biotechnology.
Piper was previously CFO at Antares Therapeutics, Scorpion Therapeutics, and Prelude Therapeutics.
Piper was also given an executive vice president title at Sana, a cell and gene therapy company that went public in 2021.
“We have meaningful momentum in our type 1 diabetes and in vivo CAR T programs, and his leadership will be critical as we continue to advance our portfolio, optimize long‑term value creation, and work to deliver these transformative therapies for patients,” Sana CEO Steve Harr said in a press release.
— Marvin White is stepping down as CEO of Aptevo Therapeutics in April after leading the Seattle biotech company since 2016, following its spinout from Emergent BioSolutions. Jeff Lamothe, the company’s COO and longtime exec, will be the new CEO. White will remain executive chair.
— Scott Kushino was named CEO at Violett, a Seattle startup that sells air purification tech. Kushino had been advising Violett and is a longtime Seattle-area tech leader. Violett founder Branden Doyle joined Seattle startup Phaidra in a senior account executive role. Violett also added Mark Stevens as vice president of sales and Ryan Palmer as a fractional CTO.
— Rohil Bhansali was promoted to head of engineering at Adora, a Seattle marketing startup. Bhansali was a founding engineer and previously spent six years at Pinterest.
— Ted Plumis joined New York startup Noma Security to lead go-to-market partnerships. Plumis is a Seattle-area sales vet who previously was a senior vice president at Exabeam and vice president at Imperva.
— Mark Tranter joined Clark Nuber PS as chief revenue officer. Tranter is an angel investor in Seattle and previously co-founded CFO Selections, an executive search and interim consulting service provider.
— Teresa Thomas started a new role at Zillow Group as director of product, agentic AI and experiences. Thomas joined Zillow in 2019 and has held various senior manager positions.
— Mike Rich, former VP at Panopto and comScore, was named head of partnerships at Seattle startup Yoodli. Rich was more recently a senior director at Signifyd. Yoodli also hired Ryan Hartlage, a former senior director at PitchBook, as a SMB sales leader.
— Greg Smith joined Seattle-area startup Scala as global head of growth and GTM. Smith was a group vice president at Transcarent and a senior marketing manager at GE Healthcare Digital and Premera Blue Cross. Scala just announced a $8.5 million seed round.
— Aaron Stacy joined Placements.io as senior enterprise sales director. Stacy previously worked at Amazon and Microsoft.
— Conrad Pastore was named senior immigration specialist at Seattle startup Casium. Pastore was previously a senior subject matter expert at fellow Seattle-based immigration startup Boundless.
