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

Cisco shook up its leadership with an announcement that its current security chief Gee Rittenhouse will leave, and Shaila Shankar, who heads the cloud and network security team, will take over the company’s $3.3 billion business unit.

Shaila Shankar, Cisco’s SVP and GM of cloud and network security, will assume Rittenhouse’s former role “effective immediately,” Patel wrote.

“Her background in cloud security combined with her deep expertise in building and designing products makes her the perfect leader to take our business to the next level as we transform security industry wide,” he added. “We are thrilled that Shaila will be the first woman to run Cisco’s security business in an industry that needs far more talent like her.”

Secureworks CEO Wendy Thomas has two goals for the cybersecurity vendor. One involves leading a $40-billion market. The other addresses a more existential crisis that has plagued the industry for years. And both play to the managed security services provider’s 20-plus years of threat intelligence and research.

“My primary goal is to be the XDR platform of choice, period, full stop,” said Thomas, who took the reins earlier this month following former Secureworks CEO Michael Cote’s retirement.

“The second one is to address the security skills shortage by enabling others to leverage that platform at scale,” she added.

Arrcus appointed former VMware exec Shekar Ayyar as CEO and chairman.

Puppet hired Chip Childers as chief architect.

Snyk appointed Adriana Bokel Herde as chief people officer.

Solo.io appointed Neeraj Poddar as director of engineering.

Kyocera promoted Robert Whisler from vice chairman to president.

Newgen Software promoted Virender Jeet from SVP of sales, marketing, and products to CEO. The company also promoted Tarun Nandwani from SVP of business management to COO.

SiPearl appointed Laura Perfetti as head of human resources.

Itential announced Peter Sprygada joined the company as VP of product management.

Wind River appointed former Microsoft executive Avijit Sinha as chief product officer.

Checkmarx appointed Razi Sharir as chief product officer.

VMware announced the appointment of Kit Colbert as CTO.

Kyndryl appointed Harsh Chugh as COO and Martin Schroeter as board chairman.

NetAbstraction announced that Michael Rogers, former head of the U.S. Cyber Command and NSA director, has been appointed as chairman of the company’s board of advisors.

Menlo Security appointed Devin Ertel as CISO.

Checkmarx named Nancy Pearson as CMO.

CloudBolt Software appointed Robert Pakai as VP of sales for Asia-Pacific.

Applause promoted Chris Malone from president and CFO to CEO.

Atera appointed Lior Torem as CFO and Oren Elimelech as CISO.

Apiiro appointed Moshe Zioni as VP of security research.

Sumo Logic appointed Margaret Francis to its board of directors.

Securiti appointed Matt Hickey as chief revenue officer, Rob Sexton as VP of sales for North America, Parmeet Chaddha as SVP of customer success, and Alex Poulos as VP of marketing.

Sema4 announced the appointment of Gustavo Stolovitzky as chief science officer. 

STL appointed former Ericsson executive Paolo Colella to its advisory council.

Rubrik hired John Murphy as global field chief security officer.

Cloudera promoted Sudhir Menon to chief product officer, Ram Venkatesh to CTO, and Paul Codding to EVP of product management.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise appointed Fidelma Russo as CTO.

Microsoft hired Charlie Bell as EVP.

Ease appointed Timothy Low as CMO and Terressa DeHaven as VP of legal and compliance.

Arcules announced the appointment of Edward Hobart as VP of customer experience.

Delphix appointed Josh Harbert as CMO.

T-Mobile announced Mark Nelson will join the company as EVP.

SAP appointed Anthony Coletta as chief investor relations officer.

Colt Technology Services appointed Andrew Edison as EVP of sales, marketing, and customer relationship management, and Mark Beeden as chief of staff to the CEO.

Aryaka appointed Craig Patterson as channel chief and VP of sales.

Xerox promoted Deena LaMarque Piquion to CMO.

SecurID appointed Jim Taylor as chief product officer.

Science Applications International Corp. appointed Kevin Brown as CISO.

Cequence Security appointed Mischa Travers as CFO and Vishal Chauhan as VP of customer success.

Shoreline.io announced the appointment of Ashley Stirrup as COO.

Kaloom appointed Neeloy Bhattacharyya, former director of systems engineering at Dell Technologies, as its VP of customer experience.

Cyxtera appointed Greer Aviv as SVP of investor relations.

Rafay Systems announced the appointment of Cathy Grim as VP of customer success.

Excelero named Jeff Whitaker as VP of product.

Ensono appointed Duan Van Der Westhuizen as SVP of public cloud.

PKWARE appointed Kathy Myhand as VP of people.

Invoca announced the appointment of Ben Sullivan as EVP of sales and Paula Schmidlin as SVP of people and culture.

Navisite appointed Gina Murphy as president and chief transformation officer.

Cloudentity appointed Jason Needham as CEO.

Huawei named Guo Ping as rotating and acting chairman.

Amplitude appointed Jim Whitehurst to its board of directors.