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

Women currently make up close to 25% of the cybersecurity workforce, according to Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) and Cybersecurity Ventures’ estimation. The number has nearly doubled since 2013, but it’s “still way too low,” which pushed Fortinet and WiCyS to work together to help the cyber community to “do better.”

“With women making up 51% of the population, that's really a tremendously underutilized resource,” Fortinet Deputy CISO Renee Tarun said. “But then we also see disparity in the workforce. At the end of the day, we're not unicorns. We in cybersecurity do exist.”

Female cybersecurity professionals also face advancement barriers. “Men are four times more likely to hold executive roles than their female counterparts, they're nine times more likely to have managerial roles than women, and sometimes they're paid 6% more than women,” she added.

While we can all agree hybrid work is here to stay (at least until the pendulum swings again), two new reports find that employees and employers have very divergent views about what this post-pandemic work model should look like.

One global survey of 7,600 IT and business decision makers commissioned by VMware found 70% of companies surveyed have implemented or plan to implement some type of employee surveillance measures. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this “drastically increases” employee turnover.

Meanwhile, new research from NTT analyzed 1,146 interviews across 23 countries and found that executives are much more satisfied with this new normal than their employees. For example, 79% of bosses believe employees prefer to work in an office. But just 39% of employees say they prefer to work from an office full time.

Platform9 announced the appointment of Bhaskar Gorti as CEO.

Nutanix appointed Dominick Delfino as chief revenue officer.

GitHub announced the appointment of Thomas Dohmke as CEO.

Sumo Logic appointed Lynne Doherty as president of worldwide field operations.

SK Telecom announced the appointment of Ryu Young-sang as CEO.

Talend appointed Robert Purcell as CFO and Jeff Lambert as chief legal officer.

Deep Instinct appointed Scott Stout as VP of America sales and Brian Feeney as VP of global channels and MSSPs.

Airspan Networks announced Divya Seshamani has been appointed to its board of directors.

Authomize appointed Paul Trulove as an advisor.

Tessian appointed Allen Lieberman as chief product officer.

Cloudways appointed Paul Haverstock as VP of engineering.

Virsec announced the appointment of Emmi Nguy as VP of finance and operations, Marcelo Oliveira as VP of product management, Thomas Schaeffer as VP of people, and Jason Stutt as SVP of North America sales.

Verizon Communications appointed Manon Brouillette as EVP and CEO of Verizon Consumer Group.

ServiceTitan announced the appointment of Anmol Bhasin as CTO.

CloudBees named Audrey Zhao as CFO.

Neo4j appointed Patrick Pichette to the company’s board of directors.

Query.AI announced the appointment of Ron Schnackenberg as head of customer success. 

Netskope appointed John Giacomini as SVP of sales.

RealDefense hired Avani Patel as VP of product management.

Twilio appointed Eyal Manor as chief product officer and Dana Wagner as chief legal officer.

Protegrity announced the appointment of Paul Mountford as CEO.

Verizon Communications appointed Sam Hammock as EVP and chief human resources officer.

Dynatrace appointed Rick McConnell as CEO and director.

Optiv appointed Nichoel Brooks as director of federal services.

Splunk announced the appointment of Graham Smith as CEO.

Shoreline.io appointed Chris Newton as VP of marketing.

Anchore appointed Josh Bressers as VP of security.

Presidio appointed Dan Lohrmann as CISO.

Invicti Security announced the appointment of Michael George as CEO.

Nutanix appointed Anja Hamilton as chief people officer.

AHEAD appointed Vina Leite to its board of directors and Craig Gorsline to its board of advisors.

Pica8 announced the appointment of Brad Bullington as CEO.

1NCE appointed Ivo Rook as COO.

Exabeam appointed Gianna Driver as chief human resources officer.

New Relic announced the appointment of Riya Shanmugam as VP of global alliances and channels.

Harness appointed Dave Nielsen as senior director of community.

HYPR appointed Bojan Simic as CEO, Jay Roxe as CMO, and Roman Kadinsky as president and COO.