NFL COO Tod Leiweke stepped down Tuesday and reports indicate that the former Seahawks CEO will team up with his brother and help lead Seattle’s potential new NHL franchise. Both the Seattle Times and KIRO Radio report that Leiweke will return to Seattle and join his brother, Tim Leiweke, who heads up Oak View Group, the ownership firm trying to bring an NHL expansion team to the Emerald City. Leiweke spent the past three years as a top NFL executive and led the Seahawks from 2003 to 2010. He spoke at our GeekWire Sports Tech Summit this past summer and… Read More
The Sounders are bringing the MLS Cup back to Seattle if Roger Levesque’s prediction holds true. Levesque dropped by our big GeekWire Gala party on Wednesday and we had a chance to catch up with the former Sounders star who retired in 2012 and recently took a job as a business development manager at Seattle sports tech startup Vicis. The Sounders face Toronto on Saturday at 1 p.m. PT for an MLS Cup rematch, one year after Seattle won its first title in the Canadian city. Former Seattle Sounder Roger Levesque predicts the 2017 MLS Cup Former Seattle Sounder Roger… Read More
Pioneer Square Labs is adding some bench strength. The Seattle-based startup studio, which has already spun out companies such as AdLightning, LumaTax, Boundless and JetClosing, has tapped longtime Seattle entrepreneur Matt Hulett as an entrepreneur-in-residence. Hulett is focusing on ideas in the eSports sector, signaling that Pioneer Square Labs sees opportunities in the burgeoning area of professional video games, which some see mushrooming into a billion dollar industry and is now attracting the likes of Turner and the NBA. Hulett has a history in the gaming industry. He previously served as chief revenue officer of RealNetworks’ RealGames unit, and also… Read More
Sensoria is adding two former Microsoft execs to its leadership team. The Redmond, Wash.-based startup today announced that former Microsoft president Richard Belluzzo has joined the company’s board. Belluzzo was president and COO at Microsoft from March 2000 to September 2002; he left to become CEO at Silicon Valley-based Quantum for the next eight years. He got his career started at HP, where he worked for nearly 23 years. “Sensoria is a very early leader in what will be a large and dynamic market,” Belluzzo said in a statement. “It is a very interesting company in an up-and-coming field — wearables.… Read More
