Tech Moves: Amazon GM departs for Scala; Flyhomes appoints 3 leaders; Heinz Marketing names COO

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Amazon general manager departs to become CTO of Scala; Flyhomes appoints three leaders; and Heinz Marketing names new COO/president. (LinkedIn Photo) Leadership changes at Bellevue, Wash.-based companies are dominating the news in this week’s Tech Moves, plus some notable items in neighboring Redmond.

— Former Amazon leader Asic Demberel is now chief technology officer for Scala , a Bellevue-based startup offering an AI operating system for contact centers and customer operations. Demberel was with Amazon for 15 years, first working on fraud technology for AWS and leaving the company as general manager and engineering leader for Amazon Pharmacy Kiosks.

“You don’t walk away from 15 years at Amazon for an incremental challenge. It takes an exceptionally complex problem and an opportunity so massive that you simply can’t look away,” Demberel said of his decision to leave. Scala was founded by Smartsheet CEO Rajeev Singh and former Accolade executive Ardie Sameti.