内容来源：https://www.geekwire.com/2026/tech-moves-hootsuite-founder-returns-as-interim-ceo-scowtt-adds-cfo-new-role-for-former-edifecs-ceo/

内容总结：

近日，多家科技及体育企业出现高层人事变动与战略调整。社交媒体管理平台Hootsuite宣布，其创始人瑞安·霍姆斯重新担任公司临时首席执行官，接替任职三年的伊琳娜·诺沃塞尔斯基。霍姆斯表示，未来将深化客户服务、拓展数据洞察能力并加大人工智能投资。诺沃塞尔斯基在任期间曾带领公司恢复盈利、构建企业销售体系并完成对Talkwalker的收购。

与此同时，多家企业任命新高管以推动业务发展。西雅图广告科技初创公司Scowtt任命马杜·贾甘纳坦为首席财务官，其首席执行官称赞其在企业规模化与财务团队管理方面的经验。医疗运营AI解决方案提供商symplr迎来新任首席执行官文卡特·卡瓦塔普，他提出将利用AI简化医疗系统运营复杂度。西雅图AI存储技术公司Liminary聘请凯文·奥唐纳担任增长负责人，其技术致力于实现多源信息的智能调取。

体育领域亦有新动态：美国职业板球联盟西雅图虎鲸队任命肖恩·卡里为首席执行官，该队投资人包括微软首席执行官萨提亚·纳德拉等多位科技界人士。用户体验测试平台UserTesting则任命瑞安·罗兰为首席财务官，强调将通过用户洞察助力企业决策。

此外，电信行业资深人士帕特里克·克诺尔近日宣布退休，其曾先后在Wave Broadband及Astound商业解决方案公司担任高管。加拿大核聚变企业General Fusion宣布任命温迪·基加入董事会，她同时担任安大略发电公司董事会主席。

中文翻译：

——瑞安·霍姆斯再次执掌社交媒休管理平台Hootsuite，该公司总部位于不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华。霍姆斯在领英上表示，Hootsuite将"深化服务企业客户的能力，拓展数据与洞察分析的应用场景，并投资人工智能技术以助力客户与自身提升效率、优化决策"。霍姆斯于2009年创立Hootsuite并担任首席执行官至2020年，随后转任董事会职务，如今接替伊琳娜·诺沃塞尔斯基出任临时首席执行官。

诺沃塞尔斯基三年前开始担任首席执行官。她在领英发文中感谢团队并列举了任职期间的成就：实现公司扭亏为盈，构建全新企业销售体系，以及完成对Talkwalker的收购。

——西雅图初创企业Scowtt致力于革新广告主的投放回报优化模式，近日任命马杜·贾甘纳坦为首席财务官。该公司去年12月刚完成1200万美元的A轮融资。贾甘纳坦曾在WorkWhile、Lob、Inrix、ChefSteps等多家初创企业担任首席财务官，职业生涯早期任职于微软集团财务经理岗位，服务过全球服务事业部等多个部门。

Scowtt首席执行官爱德华多·因达科切亚表示："马杜在组织扩张与企业级财务团队管理方面展现的卓越能力令人赞叹"，并强调其战略视野对公司下一阶段发展"至关重要"。

——休斯顿人工智能医疗运营优化平台symplr任命文卡特·卡瓦萨普为首席执行官。卡瓦萨普此前在医疗支付公司Cotiviti担任执行副总裁，更早时曾担任华盛顿州贝尔维尤市医疗支付企业Edifecs的首席执行官，该公司于去年被Cotiviti收购。

卡瓦萨普在领英写道："深耕医疗科技领域二十五载，我见证诸多变革，但医疗运营体系始终复杂难解，医护工作者仍承受着过重负担。"他补充说明symplr正运用人工智能技术应对这些挑战。

——西雅图AI初创企业Liminary聘请凯文·奥唐奈加入创始团队，担任增长业务负责人。奥唐奈与Liminary创始人兼首席执行官莎拉·安德拉比曾在Dropbox共事，当时奥唐奈任国际增长副总裁。奥唐奈创立的Global10x公司专注为SaaS企业提供市场进入与数字战略咨询，其职业履历还包括微软十五年任职经历及Nitro公司产品副总裁职务。

Liminary正在开发原生AI存储记忆技术，可实现多源信息的智能调取。奥唐奈在声明中表示："加入Liminary是因为我与莎拉秉持共同信念：下一代人工智能技术必须兼具技术严谨性与精准可验证的洞察力，同时保留人类视角。"

——美国板球大联盟西雅图逆戟鲸队任命肖恩·卡里为首席执行官，4月20日正式生效。卡里拥有二十五年体育管理经验，涉足板球、网球、澳式足球及体育用品行业，职业生涯早期曾代表西澳大利亚州参加板球比赛。西雅图逆戟鲸队成立于2023年，股东包括微软首席执行官萨提亚·纳德拉，以及现任与前任微软高管兼科技企业家索马·索马塞加、桑杰·帕塔萨拉蒂、萨米尔·博达斯和阿肖克·克里希纳穆尔蒂。

——华盛顿州贝尔维尤市用户体验研究平台UserTesting任命瑞安·罗兰为首席财务官。罗兰来自健康科技公司Overjet，此前曾在旧金山湾区多家企业担任首席财务官和首席执行官。罗兰在声明中指出："将用户视角融入企业构建与运营环节，切实助力机构优化决策。"本月初该公司还任命尼尔·戈特萨克为首席技术官。

——电信行业资深领袖帕特里克·诺尔近日退休，其最近职务为Astound商业解决方案公司高管。在2018年Astound收购柯克兰宽带公司Wave Broadband前，诺尔曾任后者商业解决方案执行副总裁。诺尔在领英回顾职业生涯时特别提到，在Wave任职期间主导十余起收购案，与Astound团队共同打造了"服务全美东西海岸主要市场的全国性商业品牌"。

——不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华核聚变企业General Fusion宣布温迪·纪加入董事会。纪目前担任安大略发电公司董事会主席，同时兼任多家机构董事职务。

英文来源：

— Ryan Holmes is again leading Hootsuite, a Vancouver, B.C.-based social media management platform. Hootsuite’s focus will be “going even deeper with the businesses we serve, expanding what we can do with data and insights, and investing in AI to help both our customers and ourselves move faster and work smarter,” Holmes said on LinkedIn.
Holmes founded Hootsuite in 2009 and was CEO until 2020, when he transitioned to a board position. He is now interim CEO, taking over from Irina Novoselsky.
Novoselsky became CEO three years ago. In a LinkedIn post, she thanked her team and highlighted their accomplishments, including restoring the company to profitability, building a new enterprise sales engine, and acquiring Talkwalker.
— Scowtt, a Seattle-based startup that wants to reshape how advertisers optimize their returns on ad campaigns, named Madhu Jagannathan as chief financial officer. The startup announced a $12 million Series A funding round in December.
Jagannathan has served as CFO for multiple startups, including WorkWhile, Lob, Inrix, ChefSteps and others. He was a group finance manager for Microsoft earlier in his career, working with the worldwide services division and other divisions.
“I have been incredibly impressed with Madhu’s ability to scale organizations and manage enterprise-grade finance teams,” said Eduardo Indacochea, Scowtt’s CEO, adding that his vision will be “critical” to the company’s next phase of growth.
— Venkat Kavarthapu is CEO of symplr, a Houston company using AI to optimize hospital and health plan operations. Kavarthapu joined from Cotiviti, where he served as executive VP. He was previously CEO of Bellevue, Wash.-based Edifecs, a healthcare payments company that Cotiviti acquired last year.
“After 25+ years in healthcare technology, I’ve seen a lot of change, but one thing hasn’t kept pace: healthcare operations are still too complex, and caregivers are still carrying too much of that burden,” Kavarthapu said on LinkedIn. Symplr, he added, is using AI to address these challenges.
— Seattle-based Liminary named Kevin O’Donnell to the startup’s founding team as its fractional head of growth. He and Liminary founder and CEO Sarah Andrabi overlapped at Dropbox, where O’Donnell served as VP of international growth.
O’Donnell founded Global10x, which provides go-to-market and digital strategy consulting to SaaS companies. His other past roles include more than 15 years at Microsoft and VP of product at Nitro.
Liminary is building AI-native storage and memory technology that automatically recalls material from various sources when needed. “I joined Liminary because Sarah and I share a conviction that the next generation of AI must be both technically rigorous and deliver accurate, verifiable insights while preserving human perspective,” O’Donnell said in a statement.
— Seattle Orcas, a Major League Cricket team, named Sean Cary as CEO, effective April 20. Cary has 25 years of sports leadership experience including roles in cricket, tennis, Australian Rules Football and the sporting goods industry. Early in his career, Cary played cricket for Western Australia.
Seattle Orcas began playing in 2023. Its owners include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as as well as current and former Microsoft executives and technology entrepreneurs Soma Somasegar, Sanjay Parthasarathy, Samir Bodas and Ashok Krishnamurthi.
— UserTesting, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that connects businesses with a global network of testers for user experience research, named Ryan Roland as its chief financial officer. He joins UserTesting from the health tech company Overjet and has held CFO and CEO roles at multiple San Francisco Bay Area companies.
“There’s a real opportunity to help organizations make better decisions by bringing customer context into how they build and operate,” Roland said in a statement.
UserTesting also named Neal Gottsacker as CTO earlier this month.
— Longtime telecommunications leader Patrick Knorr has retired, departing his most recent role as an executive at Astound Business Solutions. Prior to Astound, Knorr was EVP of business solutions for Wave Broadband, a Kirkland, Wash., company acquired by Astound in 2018.
In a LinkedIn post recounting his career, Knorr noted that during his time at Wave the company made more than a dozen acquisitions and with Astound the team became “a truly national commercial brand serving major markets coast to coast.”
— General Fusion, a Vancouver, B.C.-based fusion company, named Wendy Kei to its board of directors. Kei is board chair of Ontario Power Generation, among other board positions.