Health data startup Truveta hires Seattle Foundation CEO Tony Mestres as president
March 4, 2021 at 3:19 pm
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Tony Mestres will leave the Seattle Foundation in May to join Truveta.
Tony Mestres, a former Microsoft vice president who has been president and CEO of the Seattle Foundation for seven years, will leave the position in May to become president of Truveta, the health data startup led by former Microsoft Windows chief Terry Myerson as CEO.
David Bley, a Seattle Foundation board member who was previously Pacific Northwest director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will become interim CEO of the nonprofit community foundation while it searches for a permanent replacement.
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