Seattle-based data collection company Mason is making major changes to its senior leadership team.
On Thursday, Mason named former Docker Chief Operating Officer Webb Stevens as the company's new CEO, replacing Nancy Xiao, who is stepping back into the role of president. John Thimsen, previously the chief technology officer at Qualtrics, is joining Mason as the company's new CTO.
"John and Webb have been Mason friends, mentors and advisors since 2019. They are exceptionally well-positioned to lead our company to capture the significant market opportunity," Xiao said in a news release.
Thimsen is replacing Brian Hook, who became Mason's first CTO in May 2022. According to a Mason spokesperson, Hook retired in March.
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Stevens' appointment is the second CEO change Mason has had in recent years. Nancy Xiao, who joined the company in 2019 as president, took over the CEO role at Mason in 2021 for her brother, Jim Xiao, who founded the company in 2016. Jim then stepped into the president role. Nancy said through the Mason spokesperson that her brother will continue in his role as founder and will lead "key partnerships and growth initiatives at the company."
Stevens spent more than two years at the developer tool Docker, according to his LinkedIn page, and more than three years at the customer and employee experience company Qualtrics before that. Other stops in his career include Avalara and Deloitte.
Thimsen, meanwhile, spent more than eight years at Qualtrics before joining Mason, his LinkedIn page notes, and held the roles of CTO and adviser to the CEO. He spent about eight years at Amazon before that.
Mason makes hardware and software to help clients collect data from phones, tablets and wearable devices like watches. According to the company, its technology works in health care, retail, hospitality and government.
“Mason is a business that needs to exist and is already a company of consequence for the industries we serve," Stevens said in the release.
