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Dexterra CTO heads to Spring
Suhas Uliyar
Suhas Uliyar is moving from one Seattle area mobile software company to another. The 39-year-old executive left the chief technology officer post at Bothell-based Dexterra late last year, a job he had held since the company was founded in 2003. Now, Uliyar has landed at Spring Wireless, a Sao Paulo, Brazil company that established its North American headquarters in Seattle last month.
The move is interesting because Dexterra and Spring Wireless operate in the same arena and share the same venture backer: NEA. Losing a CTO can be a big blow to a company given the technical knowledge that walks out the door.
Uliyar says there's no animosity between him and Dexterra. And the former acting CTO at Micromuse said he was simply ready for a change. When the Spring Wireless position became available, he said he was "like a little baby in a candy store."
"I didn't feel that we were treading on toes because the market and what we are going after is completely different," he said.
Spring Wireless is focused on applications that "bridge the gap" between consumer and businesses, he said. For example, a customer in Latin America is utilizing the technology to allow people to buy ice cream with their mobile phone serving as a digital wallet of sorts.
"I wanted to figure out other opportunities that were much broader and could impact the consumer directly, as opposed to being just in the line of business applications," he said.
In his new role, Uliyar will serve as chief solutions architect. Reporting to Spring's CTO Cristiano Oliveira, Uliyar will assist with new products and strategy as the company moves into new global markets.
Uliyar will be based in Spring's Seattle office, which is led by former Microsoft manager Shakil Haroon. That office, now at 10 workers, is expected to grow to 35 people in the next 18 months.
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