LA Tech ‘Moves’: Deep 6 AI Gains New CTO, Machina Labs Expands Executive Team
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Heron Therapeutics, a commercial-stage biotechnology company appointed Craig Collard as chief executive officer and Adam Morgan as chairman of the board. Most recently, Collard served as CEO of Veloxis Pharmaceutics, while Morgan currently serves as the chief investment officer of Velan Capital Investment Management LP.
Jason Colbert joined clinical trial acceleration software Deep 6 AI as chief technology officer. Prior to joining, Colbert served as the CTO of Reveleer.
AI robotics startup Machina Labs welcomed engineering and product veterans Kyle Hickey as vice president of engineering and Michael Polino as vice president of product. Hickey held various leadership positions at Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense, Sierra Space, while Polino most recently ran the product team at Clutter.
Animation and gaming agency Saffronic hired Kristy Scanlan as senior vice president of business development. Scanlan previously held senior business development roles at Mainframe Studios and Technicolor.
EV charging infrastructure design and operation software provider company Xendee added former Saft Go Electric chief executive officer and president Lisa Laughner to its board of advisors.
Seismic, a sales enablement platform, promoted executive vice president of operations Toby Carrington to chief business officer.
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Decerry Donato is a reporter at dot.LA. Prior to that, she was an editorial fellow at the company. Decerry received her bachelor's degree in literary journalism from the University of California, Irvine. She continues to write stories to inform the community about issues or events that take place in the L.A. area. On the weekends, she can be found hiking in the Angeles National forest or sifting through racks at your local thrift store.
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