Tech Moves: Google VP joins Tenable; Semperis hires Microsoft vet; DexCare names CEO; and more

— Longtime Microsoft leader Eric Doerr is now chief product officer for Tenable, a Maryland-based cybersecurity company.

Doerr most recently served as vice president of security products at Google Cloud.

Prior to that role he was corporate VP of cloud security for Microsoft, where he held a variety of jobs, beginning as a lead project manager in 1996. He stayed with the Redmond tech juggernaut until 2022, with a one-year break when he served as chief product officer for home services company Porch.

“Eric’s deep expertise in cloud-native security, threat intelligence, and large-scale product innovation makes him the ideal leader to advance our exposure management vision and accelerate our impact across the enterprise,” Steve Vintz, Tenable’s co-CEO, said in a statement.

— After 30 years at Microsoft, Alex Weinert is now CPO for Semperis.

During his tenure at Microsoft, Weinert held management roles on teams including MSN, Visual Studio and Xbox, and for identity-related products such as Active Directory and Forefront Identity Manager. He was most recently a vice president working on identity security.

New Jersey-based Semperis provides AI-powered identity security and cyber resilience technologies.

Weinert “is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost experts in identity security,” said Mickey Bresman, CEO of Semperis, in a statement. “His deep technical skills and strategic vision will be instrumental as we continue to innovate at the intersection of identity security and cyber resilience.”

— Expedia Group named Natalie Wills as senior vice president of brand marketing and creative. Wills joined the Seattle-based travel tech giant in March.

Wills has spent her career in marketing roles in Europe and South Africa, most recently as a vice president of Booking.com in the Netherlands.

Expedia has gone through multiple rounds of layoffs over the past several months, with additional cuts made this week.

— Divya Kakkad, a partner and manager at Graham & Walker, is leaving her role with the Seattle-based women-focused venture firm.

“What began as a mission to elevate underestimated founders became a movement,” Kakkad said on LinkedIn. “Together, we built the largest community of its kind in the country, launched a venture fund (!!), and helped 1,000+ women founders raise over $200M.”

Kakkad was with Graham & Walker for close to six years and was recently named a “40 under 40” by the Puget Sound Business Journal. She did not share what her next move will be, and said she’s taking time to “rest and honor this transition.”

— DexCare appointed Matthew Blosl as CEO, succeeding co-founder Derek Streat. DexCare co-founder Sean O’Connor is now president of the healthcare startup, and Streat is moving to the board of directors.

• Streat led DexCare for five years, and is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Improving Renal Outcomes Collaborative (IROC); C-SATS, which was acquired by Johnson & Johnson; Medify and others.
• Blosl has held C-suite roles at multiple companies, including Cyncly, Experity, DocuTAP and others.
• O’Connor was chief revenue officer at C-STATS and held leadership roles at Intuitive Surgical.

Dexcare’s software platform helps healthcare providers manage their system’s capacity and schedule appointments. The Seattle startup launched at Providence to help with digital patient acquisition, spinning out from the healthcare network’s digital innovation group in 2021. It serves more than 57 million patients nationwide.

— Former Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein resigned from the board of directors for Seattle-based application security giant F5, according to a regulatory filing. Klein served on the board for more than a decade. He left a seat on the board’s audit committee.

— Legal tech startup Supio added two new executives to its C-suite and a senior vice president. The Seattle company, which offers software that helps lawyers quickly sort, search, and organize case-related data, this week also announced a $60 million Series B round.

• Jay Deubler is now chief revenue officer. Deubler was an SVP of sales at Avalara and comes to Supio from Yooz, an invoicing and payments software company.
• Jim Sinai joins as chief marketing officer. Sinai is a SaaS marketing specialist, previously launching Einstein AI at Salesforce and he helped Procore go public. 
• Gwen Sheridan is SVP of customer success. Sheridan has worked for multiple Seattle tech startups, coming to Supio from Highspot where she led post-sales functions.

— The National Academy of Sciences honored University of Washington professor Xiaodong Xu with the NAS Award for Scientific Discovery. The biennial award is given to researchers who have made an important discovery in the preceding five years that is expected to have significant impact in their field.

Xu was recognized for his “seminal work on the experimental observation of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect,” NAS said, adding that he “has provided key contributions to the field of condensed matter physics.”

Xu is the Boeing Professor of Physics in the UW’s Department of Physics.

— Milkana Brace is leaving her role as Remitly’s executive vice president of consumer product to take a sabbatical. Brace was with the Seattle-based international payments company for four years.

She previously founded and led Jargon, a startup that translated voice-activated assistants into other languages, and held leadership roles at Expedia and Groupon.

“I’m taking extended time off to travel to remote lands, expand my horizons, and grow in new dimensions,” she said on LinkedIn. “I’m deeply grateful for everything I’ve been able to contribute, learn, and experience at Remitly and am thankful for everyone I’ve got to work with along the way there.”

— Kymeta, a Redmond company building hybrid cellular-satellite terminals for communications, added two new board members:

• Chris Marzilli, former executive vice president of the defense industry’s General Dynamics.
• Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Scott Stapp, who has worked for the U.S. Department of Defense and is currently CTO and CRO at DEFCON AI.

Kymeta also added two people to its board of advisors:

• Jay “Scott” Goldstein, a retired U.S. Air Force Major General and senior vice president at Parsons, a civil engineering company.
• Brian Hibbeln, a physicist who worked for three decades in roles in the U.S. Department of Defense and the intelligence community.