Headcount: Firings, Hirings, and Retirings — June 2022

Here are some of the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes that happened in June. 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.

VMware Commits to 205 Hires in Ireland

VMware is the latest tech firm committing to boosting its presence in Ireland. It announced plans to hire 205 new employees in the Emerald Isle by 2025 and named an engineering executive to head up those efforts. The commitment comes in the shadow of Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of VMware.

The new hires will be focused on extending VMware’s work on multi-cloud platforms. Their work will be centered on VMware’s current presence in Dublin, though the vendor stated they will be offering remote work opportunities.

VMware named recently hired VP of Engineering Andrei Grigoriev to head up its team in Ireland. This will extend the reach of VMware’s CTO office headed by Kit Colbert and be in place to manage an in-country staff that will be in excess of 1,200 employees following the new hires.

Verizon Business Set for New Leadership

Verizon Business is primed for a leadership shakeup as a long-time executive is set to step aside to be replaced by a current revenue lead.

The moves will see current Verizon Chief Revenue Officer Sowmyanarayan Sampath named EVP and CEO of Verizon Business effective July 1. Sampath will replace long-time Verizon Business leader Tami Erwin, who will be moving to Strategic Advisor to Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg. Erwin’s new position is set to last until the end of the year, at which point she will be leaving the company.

Parallel Wireless Job Cuts Parallel Tough Open RAN Market

Parallel Wireless has reportedly cut staff in a move that highlights the volatile nature of the current open radio access network (RAN) market.

The cuts were noted in a LinkedIn post by Eugina Jordan, who had been VP of marketing at Parallel Wireless and a big focus of that firm’s industry outreach.

In the post, Jordan cited “mass layoffs” across Parallel Wireless’ global operations. Parallel Wireless had not responded by press time to an SDxCentral request for more details, though a report from Light Reading noted as many as half of Parallel Wireless’ approximately 700 employees were impacted.

Jordan noted in her comments on the job cuts that “market conditions are horrendous right now,” and that “many tech companies are in the same boat.”

Other Movers and Shakers

Intel named April Miller Boise EVP and chief legal officer.

Equinix appointed Fidelma Russo and Jeetu Patel to its board of directors.

AMD appointed Mathew Hein as chief strategy officer.

Aryaka appointed Srini Addepalli as CTO.

Windstream announced Michael Fiacco as its chief revenue officer.

GSMA appointed Lara Dewar as chief marketing officer.

Snyk appointed Sabina Joseph as its global VP of cloud, ISVs, GSIs and channel.

Sumo Logic appointed Zakir Ahmed as managing director of APAC and international market strategy, Steve Doyle as SVP of global sales strategy and operations, Timm Hoyt as SVP of global channels and alliances, and Russell Rosa as SVP of America sales.

ScaleFlux hired Saeed Raja as its VP.

Obsidian Security hired Zhiping Liu as senior principal engineering lead, Shuyang Wang as head of threat research, Phil Whitby as senior director of engineering, and Autumn Wang as director of DevOps.

Verizon named Debika Bhattacharya as chief product officer at Verizon Business and Iris Meijer as SVP of business marketing and revenue operations at Verizon Business.

SIRP appointed Damian Miller to its board of directors. 

1Password appointed Erin Zipes as its first chief legal officer.

Panzura hired David Wigglesworth as VP of global sales.

Elsewhere Partners appointed Hannah Johnson as chief talent officer and Sean McDonell as head of investor relations. 

Fortinet announced its public sector advisory council, which includes Gary Locke, Rachelle Chong, James R. Clapper, Peter Jennings, Sir Richard Shirreff, and Suzanne Spaulding.

Smarsh named Kim Crawford Goodman as CEO. 

Darktrace Federal appointed Marcus Fowler as CEO.

Couchbase promoted Huw Owen to SVP and chief revenue officer.

Platform9 appointed Emilia A’Bell as chief revenue officer and Ravi Jacob as chief financial officer.

Cloudflare named Mark Hawkins to its board of directors.

Valtech promoted Mihaela Mazzenga to CTO for North America and David DeCheser to chief creative officer for North America.

Boomi appointed Madeline Ling as chief financial officer, Marcy Campbell as chief revenue officer, Fran Wilson as CMO, Christa Delcamp as head of public relations and media strategy, and James Dyson as head of global diversity, equity, and inclusion talent acquisition.

Tricentis appointed Dave Hafner as chief financial officer.

Productiv hired Miles Kirkpatrick as its chief revenue officer.

OutSystems announced Mark Quigley as its chief people officer.

Ease appointed Sudha Kaki as CTO. 

WIA named Patrick Halley president and CEO.

Vade announced Brian Fravel as VP of marketing. 

SonarSource hired Manish Gupta as chief marketing officer. 

Netsurion hired John Addeo as chief revenue officer. 

Celigo hired Asad Siddiqui as its first chief information officer. 

BlueVoyant hired Barry Stern as chief financial officer.

Rajant appointed Diana Logue as chief operating officer.

Jscrambler announced Michael Grant as VP of Global Sales, Carlos Rocha Gonçalves as VP of Growth, and Filipe Pereira as VP of Engineering. 

Panzura appointed Julie Parrish and Stephen Singh to its board of directors.  

Phononic appointed Larry Yang as its chief product officer.

Dstillery promoted Amelia White to VP of data science research and Patti Boyle to CMO.

Braze hired Astha Malik as CMO. 

Google Cloud announced Stephen Orban will assume a leadership role later this year. 

DartPoints appointed Jackie Steinberg as channel chief.

NMI hired Scott Hart as chief financial officer and Phillip Goericke as SVP of engineering. 

Praetorian appointed Andrew McFarland as chief operating officer.

Signal AI appointed Alexandre Pinto as SVP of data science.

LogRhythm named Mitzi Hunter as CMO and Mike Dalgleish as VP of sales, Americas.

InterDigital appointed Dr. Rajesh Pankaj as its CTO. 

Turnium Technology Group appointed Evelyn Bailey and Peter Green to its board of directors.

MEF appointed Verizon Business’ Debika Bhattacharya and AT&T’s John Nolan to its board of directors. 

FNTS announced Jim Nicholas as its VP of sales.

DriveNets hired James Morgan as SVP of sales for Europe, Ryan Donnelly as SVP of infrastructure, and John Sweeney as EVP of sales for the Americas.

Boardable promoted its president Jeff Middlesworth to CEO. 

Wellframe announced Madhu Rajagopalan as VP of engineering. 

Token appointed John Gunn as CEO.

Sourcepass named Mike Riley as its chief revenue officer.

Babel Street hired Bryan Mulholland as EVP of sales and Jen Snell as SVP of marketing.