Kevin Leneway, a seasoned engineering leader at the Pioneer Square Labs startup incubator in Seattle, has joined OpenAI as a solutions architect on the company’s startups team.
Leneway, a prominent figure in the Seattle tech community, has been at PSL since 2017, leading engineering efforts. Prior to this role, he co-founded Haiku Deck, a presentation software startup, in 2010, and served as a developer evangelist at Microsoft for five years.
In a recent LinkedIn post, Leneway announced his new role at OpenAI, stating that he will remain in Seattle to continue working with local startups. His goal is to establish a stronger connection between OpenAI and the Seattle startup community.
OpenAI has been expanding its presence in the Seattle area, having opened an office in Bellevue, Wash., in 2024 and acquiring Statsig, a product development platform, for $1.1 billion earlier this year.
— Madrona hired Eric Wong as director of portfolio growth. Wong brings a wealth of marketing leadership experience from companies such as Symend, Jirav, Prompt.io, and others, and will now assist Madrona’s portfolio companies in enhancing their go-to-market strategies.
In his new role, Wong expressed his enthusiasm, stating on LinkedIn that this opportunity is the one he is most excited about in his career.
— Seattle-based healthcare tech startup CueZen has appointed Dr. Ramesh Rajentheran as CFO and head of Asia. With over twenty years of experience at the intersection of healthcare and finance, Rajentheran has co-founded MiyaHealth and Hisential, and currently serves as an operating partner at TVM Capital Healthcare.
CueZen, a company specializing in software for personalized healthcare programs, secured $5 million in funding earlier this year.
