Here are some of the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes that happened in January. 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 Julia King ([email protected]) for inclusion in the monthly headcount column.

Cloud giants Amazon and Salesforce rang in the new year with massive job cuts, the former announcing thousands of new job cuts and the latter cutting 10% of its workforce. Company executives cited ongoing economic uncertainty and bloated payrolls. Read more.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent an email to the company’s nearly quarter-million employees to explain why the cloud provider is shelling out $1.2 billion to lay off slightly less than 5% of its total workforce. According to the email, those 10,000 jobs are no longer needed to meet the cloud hyperscaler’s long-term goals or customer demand in light of the continued advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and shuttered enterprise spending caused by economic uncertainty. Read more.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai blamed himself and an altered economic reality for the company’s plans to slash 12,000 jobs of “people we worked hard to hire.” The CEO stated that advancements in AI also impacted the move, noting that “being constrained in some areas allows us to bet big on others." Read more.

IBM and SAP announced layoffs following fourth-quarter earnings reports. IBM said it will pay out $300 million in the first quarter for severance costs associated with nearly 4,000 job cuts, or 1.5% of its global workforce. Read more.

Neo4j appointed Alyson Welch as chief revenue officer.

Nintex appointed Jen Bailin as chief commercial officer.

Cyberpion named Marc Gaffan as CEO, Doron Gill as VP of engineering, and Ido Samson as chief revenue officer.

Gluware appointed Matthew Westover as chief revenue officer.

Forter appointed Ozge Tuncel Ozcan as chief customer offer.

Augtera Networks hired Allan Rickhi as VP of channels and alliances.

Hitachi Vantara announced Monica Kumar as CMO.

Capella Space announced Chad Cohen as CFO.

Devo appointed Brian Froehling as chief revenue officer.

Aware hired Kevin Bobowski as chief marketing officer.

Hexaware Technologies hired Sanjay Salunkhe as president of digital and software.

Sift appointed Kris Nagel as CEO.

NetApp appointed David Kim as chief diversity officer.

Nerdio appointed Suresh Thirunavukkarasu as chief product and technology officer and Andy Baker as chief people officer.

Entrust named Harini Gokul chief customer officer.

Cloudflare announced Phil Winslow as VP of strategic finance, treasury, and investor relations.

AU10TIX appointed Dan Yerushalmi as CEO.

Dashlane hired Donald Hasson as its chief product officer.

Qmulos hired Nick Jovanovic as chief revenue officer, Theresa Feraren as VP of marketing, and Russ Odom as CFO.

Sauce Labs appointed Clair Byrd as chief marketing officer.

Boomi appointed Steve Lucas as CEO.

Matillion hired Tamar Elan as chief people officer.

WatchGuard named Simon Yeo SVP of operations.

Quest Software announced Carolyn McCarthy as CFO, Matt Deres as CIO, and John Hernandez as GM of its Microsoft Platform Management business unit.

Sysdig Inc. appointed Bryce Hein as chief marketing officer.

Vectra appointed Rob Rosiello as SVP of sales for Americas.

Skyhawk Security appointed Chen Burshan as CEO.

Extenet appointed Scott Pomykalski as chief revenue officer.

Splunk appointed Brian Roberts as CFO.

KX appointed John Hoffman as chief revenue officer.

GFT appointed Marco Santos as CEO Americas.

Ciena announced David Rothenstein as chief strategy officer, Sheela Kosaraju as SVP, and Joe Cumello as GM of its Blue Planet Software division.

Ericsson appointed Jenny Lindqvist as SVP head of market area Europe & Latin America.

GTT appointed Johan Broekhuysen as CFO.

Spin Technology hired Courtney Ostermann as chief marketing officer.

Prove appointed Amanda Fennell as chief information security officer and CIO.

Dig appointed Yotam Ben Ezra as chief product officer.

Paperless Parts hired Jason Luce as SVP of engineering and Alan Hawley as SVP of sales.

TelcoSwitch appointed Matt Mansell as CEO.

Coalesce.io appointed John Sedleniek as chief revenue officer.

DocuSign announced Robert Chatwani as president and GM of growth, and Anwar Akram as COO.

Shift5 promoted Mitch Plonski to chief revenue officer and Amanda Lampert to chief people officer.

FirstNet at AT&T named Scott Agnew COO.

Veriff hired Javier Ortega as its chief revenue officer.

Recharge hired Jay Li as its CFO.

Rossum announced Elena Melnikova as chief marketing officer.