Tech Moves: T-Mobile appoints CFO; Microsoft and Blue Origin VPs depart; AZX and Caddi name leaders. - Telecom giant T-Mobile announced that Jessica Uhl will join as chief financial officer-designate later this month, and succeed Peter Osvaldik as CFO in February. Uhl served as CFO of Shell and worked for the global oil and energy giant for more than 17 years. She joins T-Mobile from GE Vernova, where she was president. "I am thrilled to welcome Jessica to T-Mobile," Srini Gopalan, president and CEO of T-Mobile said in a statement. "She brings deep financial and strategic acumen, capital allocation expertise and an innovative growth mindset that is a perfect fit for T-Mobile's next era." Osvaldik will transition to strategic advisor and retire from T-Mobile in July. He joined the company in 2016 and became chief financial officer in 2020. Osvaldik's tenure "has been defined by disciplined financial stewardship, consistent financial outperformance, and an unwavering commitment to T-Mobile's mission," the company said. The move marks the latest leadership shakeup at the Bellevue, Wash.-based company. Mike Katz, T-Mobile's chief business and product officer, announced his departure in July, and Chris Sambar was named chief enterprise officer. T-Mobile has cut 470 jobs in its home state this year and closed numerous retail locations. - Brent Colburn, Microsoft's vice president of global public affairs, is resigning after three years, effective mid-October. "Stepping away from Microsoft is not a decision that I made lightly, but ultimately it is the right one for me and my family," said Colburn, who has been commuting weekly between his home in Oakland, Calif., and Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., headquarters. Colburn's career has spanned leadership roles in government, academia and philanthropy. That includes serving as principal advisor to the secretary of defense for communications and chief of staff to then-Secretary Shaun Donovan. More recent roles include communications vice president for the University of California in Oakland, Princeton University and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. - After nearly 13 years, Audrey Powers has left Blue Origin, the aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos that develops reusable rockets, spacecraft and rocket engines. She was on Blue Origin's October 2021 spaceflight that also carried "Star Trek" star William Shatner and two others. "Hopefully, I've helped change peoples' impressions of rockets (they land, too), astronauts (they are everyone), and our Earth," Powers said, adding that she was sad to leave, but grateful that she took a chance on "a little startup no one had heard of." Powers held the title of deputy and vice president of the New Shepard Business Unit, which is the program that carries people and research payloads into suborbital space. She is an attorney who has previously worked at NASA as a flight controller and as a senior systems engineer at Lockheed Martin. - Michael Levi has joined AZX as chief commercial officer of the Bellevue-based startup, which works with utilities and other industries to build in-house AI technologies supporting their missions. Levi is based in San Francisco and was previously vice president of marketing and growth for KloudGin, where he helped reposition the company's field service software into an AI-native platform for utilities and the public sector. He earlier founded L1CG, a go-to-market advisory, and has held leadership roles in energy, renewables, supply chain and fintech. - Jason Alafgani was named head of marketing for Caddi, a Seattle startup that launched out of AI2 Incubator and is automating basic business operations with generative AI. Alafgani is the co-founder of startups including the podcast company Jellypod and worked as marketing leader for Appwrite, Dodgeball, Mode and others. - Dr. Amir Iravani has joined Los Angeles-based UCLA Health as director of the theranostics program, which focuses on treating cancer using targeted radiation therapy. Iravani previously served as theranostics clinical director at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle and was an associate professor of radiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. - Portland Metro Region Innovation Hub has hired Kelly Lyons as director of the organization, which provides networking, coaching, funding and other support to entrepreneurs. Lyons is the founder of two startups and has served in leadership at Core Education, Umpqua Bank and Development House, a social services nonprofit. - DigiStor, a Vancouver, Wash.-based provider of secure data-at-rest protection solutions, appointed Michael Callahan to its board of directors. Callahan co-founded Awake Security and PolyServe, which was acquired by HP.

Caddi launches Discovery, the AI that finds your most repetitive work. Discovery reads the tools a firm already uses, finds the work its people keep repeating, ranks each finding by the hours it could give back, and hands it to Caddi Studio to build. Caddi - September 3, 2026 Caddi today launched Discovery, a new capability that finds the repetitive work inside a firm before anyone has to name it. Discovery reads activity across the tools a team already works in, spots the tasks that happen the same way again and again, and lists them ranked by the hours a year each one costs. Every finding can be turned into a working automation with one click. Most repetitive work never shows up on a list, and not because it is quick. Prepare the notes before a call, schedule it, log the outcome after: ten minutes each time, eight times a week, across three tools that do not talk to each other. Sixty-nine hours a year, on one task nobody ever named. Discovery is built for that gap: a firm does not have to know what to automate, only which tools to connect. How it works. * Connect the tools you already use. Email, calendar, CRM, documents, chat, e-signature, accounting. Access is read only, and Caddi can never change or move anything. * Run Discovery. It reads recent activity across those tools in the background, usually in 15 to 30 minutes, and confirms each pattern before it shows it. * Read the findings. Each one names the task, shows what Caddi saw, explains why it is worth automating, carries a confidence level, and estimates the hours a year it takes. * Build it. Press Build this and Caddi Studio opens with the finding staged. Loopy drafts the plan, you approve it, and the loop runs on the work already waiting. "Every ops leader we talk to knows their team is doing repetitive work. Almost none of them can tell you exactly where, because the work is small and it hides inside the tools. Discovery goes and looks. It comes back with the list, the evidence, and the hours, and then it builds the fix." Jason Alafgani, Caddi Discovery is the first chapter of how Caddi works. Caddi discovers a firm's most repetitive back-office work, its people train agents on each process over chat and screenshare, and leadership governs every run under full audit. Until now the first step depended on someone knowing what to point Caddi at. Now Caddi points itself. Availability. Discovery is available today in every Caddi workspace, including the free Individual plan. Open the Discovery tab, connect at least two tools, and press Run Discovery. Sign up free to run Discovery on your own tools, or schedule a demo to see it on a firm like yours. Do more with less See Caddi in action. Tell Caddi Technologies, Inc. where to reach you and the calendar opens right here. In 30 minutes Caddi Technologies, Inc.'ll show you how Caddi automates the back-office work that grows with your clients - built, run, and maintained for you. S M T W T F S Enter your email to see available times