Here are some of the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes that happened in February. If you’d like SDxCentral to report on your company’s movers and shakers, or if you’ve got a tip about layoffs and restructuring, please send the information to Sydney Sawaya ([email protected]) for inclusion in the monthly headcount column.

SAP continued to aggressively push its operational transformation with the latest move around a revamping of its organizational structure and showing a pair of board members the door. The moves come on the heels of a change in leadership at the company and growing momentum around its cloud initiatives.

The organizational restructuring will see SAP’s sales, service, and related customer service organizations being grouped into a newly named “Customer Success” camp that will be managed by Adaire Fox-Martin, who is an executive board member at SAP and heads up its global customer operations. SAP’s product management, development, and product support organizations will now be grouped together under executive board member Thomas Saueressig.

SAP CTO Juergen Mueller will now be responsible for delivering the company’s platforms to customers and continuing to manage its overall platform and technology development and intelligent technologies. This will involve closer work with Saueressig’s organization.

While some of SAP’s executive board are gaining increased responsibility, others are exiting stage left. The company said that Stefan Ries and Michael Kleinemeier will leave the board in the next few months. Ries has led SAP’s human resource functions and is set to exit at the end of May. Kleinemeier was in charge of SAP’s Digital Business Services and will leave on April 30.

Company leadership said the revamped SAP structure will provide a more integrated face for its customers. Following the purge, SAP’s executive board will be down to five members.

Intel confirmed that “less than 1%” of its global workforce had been laid off as the chipmaker refocuses on growth opportunities in 2020. The news comes in stark contrast to Intel’s earnings which reached record levels last month.

The layoffs first came to light after a notice was filed in late January with California’s Employment Development Department that detailed Intel’s plans to permanently cut 128 positions.

However, the actual number of Intel employees affected is likely much higher. With approximately 110,000 workers around the globe, “less than 1%” adds up to somewhere shy of 1,100 people out of work.

Intel claims that at least some of these workers will be reassigned. “Wherever possible, we’ve transitioned employees or teams within the company to areas of business need, and we expect this to impact less than 1% of our global workforce, subject to local requirements,” the spokesperson wrote.

The spokesperson added that the company has more than 1,300 open positions in locations throughout the United States and around the world.

Nutanix promoted Chris Kaddaras from SVP of sales for the Americas to SVP of global sales.

The leadership and engineering talent of Finland-based Kontena traded their jerseys in and became the latest addition to Mirantis’ expanding Kubernetes lineup.

Catherine Graham joined cyber artificial intelligence (AI) company Darktrace as its new CFO.

Splunk appointed Yassir Abousselham to lead its internal cybersecurity efforts as its CISO.

Tenable welcomed former Turbonomic COO Mark Thurmond to serve as its COO.

Along with rebranding and renaming Network Test Labs (NTL) to CyberClan and expanding into the American market as a new U.S. company, CyberClan also announced the appointment of Mary Beth Borgwing as its  new executive director.

Zerto added two new names to its executive leadership team with Sofia Kaufman as its first CPO and Gil Levona expanding his role as CMO.

Hybrid cloud file storage provider Qumulo named Barry Russell as SVP and GM of cloud.

Karen Diebel Sessions joined EdgePresence as its new CEO.

Former COO and CSO at SecureAuth Justin Dolly was appointed CSO at Sauce Labs.

Former executive at Cisco, VMware, Akamai, VeloCloud, and Apstra, Michael Wood began his new role as CMO at Versa.

Datical announced Dion Cornett as its new president.

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) elected Santiago Tenorio, Vodafone Group’s head of network strategy and architecture, as the new TIP chairman, succeeding Axel Clauberg.

Arctic Wolf named Dan Larson as SVP of marketing.

Current president and CEO of events XD Corporation Alain “Lino” Tadros joined Americaneagle.com as its new chief evangelist.

ThoughtSpot appointed Google veteran Ken Rudin as SVP of user growth and embedded analytics.

Bruce McClelland, who previously served as CEO of ARRIS, began his new role as CEO at Ribbon Communications Inc.

Cyber security company Keyfactor announced BJ Ferguson as head of global channel sales and operations.

Liqid welcomed co-founder of NexGen Storage and LeftHand Networks John Spiers as its CSO.

CSG named Sudhansu Panigrahi as VP and center head of the company’s India location.

Bob Layton joined Digital Defense, Inc. as the company's new CRO.

Druva announced the appointment of Chris White as CRO and Matt Lindeman as CCO.

Aiven added Larry Irvin to its executive team where he will serve as VP and GM of the Americas.

Ex-VMware executive Brandon Sweeney began his new role as CRO at HashiCorp.

Bloomreach welcomed Rob Rosenthal as the company's CRO.

T-Mobile did some executive shuffling as David Carey, EVP of corporate services announced his departure from the company some time between April 30 and July 1. Carey will continue to provide consulting services to T-Mobile. Carey is among CFO Braxton Carter and CEO John Legere as the latest executive with plans to leave T-Mobile in the coming months. Further, Abdul Saad was promoted to CTO.

Keith Block stepped down as co-CEO of Salesforce but will continue to remain an advisor to Marc Benioff who will sit as chair and CEO of the company.

Former chief architect for the Ansible Automation Platform at Red Hat, Peter Sprygada joined multicloud networking provider Pureport as CTO.

Infrascale announced several new leadership hires:

• Russell P. Reeder — CEO
• Brian Kuhn — COO
• Robert Peterson — CFO
• Carolyn Kress — CPO
• Lindsay Haun — VP of global customer success
• Adam Berger — VP of global IT and cloud operations