— Longtime tech executive Liz Pearce announced Monday that she is joining Seattle-based climate marketplace startup Ever.green as chief revenue officer.
Pearce said she was motivated to make the career pivot due to the growing urgency to address the impacts of climate change, including heat waves, floods, fires, and droughts.
“I want to use as much of my time and energy as possible to make some kind of impact,” she wrote in a LinkedIn post.
Ever.green operates a marketplace that matches corporations spending money to reduce their carbon footprints with developers that need funding to build energy facilities. The idea is to make these transactions quicker, less risky financially, and easier for smaller corporations to participate.
Pearce spent more than a decade at Seattle project management software startup LiquidPlanner, including five years as CEO. She then joined Portland, Ore.-based augmented reality company Streem as chief revenue officer, later co-founded a recommendation platform startup called Fresh Chalk. In 2021, she was hired as vice president of marketing at GoDaddy, helping to lead the company’s go-to-market function for its U.S. business unit.
Ever.green, spun out of Pioneer Square Labs, raised $6.1 million earlier this year. The company’s investors include PSL Ventures, Designer Fund, Baker Tilly, Fin Capital, City Light Capital and Climate Capital. The startup is led by CEO and co-founder Cris Eugster, who previously was COO at San Antonio’s CPS Energy.
— Vancouver, Wash.-based biotech company Absci, which is developing technologies to accelerate the process of drug discovery, hired Amaro Taylor-Weiner as chief AI officer. Weiner was vice president of machine learning at PathAI, a Boston-based AI drug and diagnostic development startup.
— Kelsey Lewin, a co-director at The Video Game History Foundation, said she will step down from the role. Lewin is the co-owner of Pink Gorilla, a chain of used video game stores in Seattle, which opened a new location in Capitol Hill earlier this year.
— Andrew Mitrak was hired by Google as a senior manager of the Workspace marketing team. He announced that he will also be stepping down from his operational role at Wolfscale, the growth marketing agency he co-founded with Sean Jones. Mitrak held marketing leadership roles at Seattle startups Glue, Convoy, and Haptx.
— The Seattle Seawolves, the city’s Major League Rugby team, named Tom Barden as president and COO. He spent more than 27 years at IT company Accenture in various roles, most recently as managing director of operations in North America communications, media, and technology. Barden was an adjunct professor at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. He has been an investor in the Seawolves since 2018.
— Gabriella Lopes announced she was named CEO of the Legion Networking Community. She is the COO of Evoke NFT Marketplace and ambassador for Women in Games.
