Boston's business elite have been busy this past week. Catch up on who's going where below:
Boston’s mobile booze delivery darling Drizly welcomed three new executives on board this week. The startup added Hugh Hunter as its VP of engineering, Jeremy Kriegel as VP of customer experience, and Bryan Goodwin as VP of sales and retail partners. Hunter, Kriegel and Goodwin hail from flash deals site Vente Privee, local fine custom jewelry company Gemvara and travel tech giant TripAdvisor, respectively. Go here for the full scoop.
Founder of m-Qube, UPromise and VC firm General Catalyst Michael Shreck joined Altisource its new accelerator program this week, Altisource Labs. The company plans on housing a handful of early-stage ventures (right now, there are four) at a time at its Boston office. Altisource Labs, which is headquartered in Luxembourg, expects to hire hundreds of engineers over the next year and a half. The firm currently has around 160 employees in Boston and is scoping out a new space.
Cambridge genomics research center the Broad Institute fired 27 employees who do contract work for other institutions. The layoffs are a result of the end of a federal program that supported chemical screenings for potential drugs, according to the Boston Globe. The silver lining: The institute plans to bring on more than that number as it changes direction and starts to build up its therapeutic research.
Fledgling startup Stackdriver seems to have been acqui-hired by Google. The company, which creates software that better manages apps in the cloud, is moving into Google’s Cambridge office and will join the tech giant’s Cloud Platform Team.
