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CenturyLink Replaces CTOCenturyLink replaced its current CTO with an executive from Level 3. The company’s former CTO, Aamir Hussain has left the company and will be replaced with former Level 3 CTO Andrew Dugan.
Dugan joined CenturyLink as its VP of technology planning and network architecture in November 2017 when the telco operator bought Level 3.
CenturyLink Communications Director Stephanie Meisse told SDxCentral in an email that "CenturyLink is implementing organizational changes in its Product Development and Technology function to better align with the company's recently completed technology roadmap and innovation strategy." She continued that Hussain left as a result of these organizational changes.
Dugan joins a number of Level 3 execs who have taken positions in the CenturyLink C-Suite. Former Level 3 CEO and president Jeff Storey joined CenturyLink following the acquisition as president and COO, but replaced CenturyLink CEO Glen Post in May of this year. And this week, CenturyLink named Neel Dev as permanent CFO. Dev had been serving as interim CFO since Sunit Patel’s departure from the company in September. Dev was the group vice president of finance at Level 3 and took on the same role for CenturyLink when the companies merged.
Intel Reorganizes Chip Manufacturing BizIntel reorganized its chip manufacturing business following the departure of its manufacturing group’s SVP and GM Sohail Ahmed. Ahmed, who joined Intel in 1984 as a process engineer, will retire from the company this month. He has held his current role since 2016.
The business unit will now be split into three segments. Each segment will report to Venkata Renduchintala, Intel’s chief engineering officer and group president of its technology and systems architecture group.
The first unit is a Technology Development Group and will be led by Intel CTO Mike Mayberry. The second, a Manufacturing and Operations group, will be led by Ann Kelleher who served along Ahmed as SVP and GM of the manufacturing group. The third, a Supply Chain group, will be led by Intel GM of Global Supply Management Randhir Thakur.
The restructuring comes as Intel still has yet to replace CEO Brian Krzanich, who resigned in June over a past employee relationship. Krzanich, today, was appointed as CEO of CDK Global, replacing Brian MacDonald. As Intel searches for his successor, its CFO Bob Swan has been serving as the interim CEO.
In addition, this business unit has been under fire recently as it fails to deliver on its promise to launch its first 10-nanosecond processors. Initially it said the processors would be launched in 2015, but have only been shipping them in low volumes.
Docker Expands Leadership TeamDocker expanded its leadership team with three new executive roles as the container platform continues to grow. The platform surpassed 650 enterprise customers worldwide in the first half of its fiscal year.
Docker appointed Kal De as its chief technology officer and executive vice president of engineering. De joined the company from VMware where he served as the VP of product development for its cloud management business unit.
The second addition to the executive team was Neil Charney, who was appointed chief marketing officer. Charney formerly served as the senior vice president of marketing for the cloud business networks group at SAP. He also was a general manager at Microsoft, charged with the developer, enterprise, Windows, and platform strategy teams.
The final appointment was Melanie Morgan who will serve as general counsel at Docker. Morgan also joined from SAP where she was the senior VP and chief legal officer for SAP Concur.
Movers and ShakersAmit Singh replaced Mark Anderson as Palo Alto Networks’ president.
Microsoft Corporate VP of Cortana Javier Soltero is leaving the company after serving in the role since March. Soltero joined the firm in 2014 when it acquired mobile email startup Acompli, which he founded.
Security firm Kount hired Gary Sevounts as its chief marketing officer (CMO). Sevounts was previously CMO at Aryaka Networks.
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen died at age 65 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Dell Boomi hired Mandy Dhaliwal as its CMO. Dhaliwal previously served as the CMO of Fugue.
Juniper Networks named Eva Andres as senior vice president and chief human resources officer.
Qualcomm appointed Lam Research Corporation CEO Martin Anstice and former Mondelēz International CEO Irene Rosenfeld to its board of directors.
Murray Kawchuk joined Sigfox as its vice president of sales.
Airbnb hired former Google engineer and executive Aristotle Balogh as its chief technology officer.
Infinera promoted David Heard to chief operating officer. Heard joined Infinera in June 2017 as its SVP and GM.
Joanne Olsen joined Ciena’s board of directors. Prior to her retirement in 2017, Olsen was the executive vice president of Oracle Global Cloud Services.
Infovista hired Jon Howes as its senior vice president of global channel sales.
B.Yond hired Rui Frazao as its executive vice president of its European operations.
SecureAuth hired four new people to its leadership team. Holly Gibeaut was named general counsel and corporate secretary; Justin Dolly was hired as chief operating officer and chief security officer; Tom Moyes was named chief financial officer; and Dan Laskero was tapped as chief people officer.
New Relic named Shinichiro Konishi as its representative director and Kapan County Manager to lead its push into the Japanese market.
Riverbed named Mark Jopling as senior vice president of sales in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Synthetic monitoring company Apica named Peter Tollgård as CEO.
Charles Wang, the founder of Computer Associates (now known as CA Technologies), died at the age 74 of lung cancer. Broadcom completed its acquisition of CA Technologies this week.
Commvault named Rick Fairweather as its VP of Americas channels and named Mark Fong as VP of Asia Pacific channels and alliances.
Arris hired former Motorola executive Kevin Wirick to serve as VP of its network intelligence and automation business.
Open core company source{d} hired former Google senior software engineer Michael Fromberger will join the company to lead its Language Analysis efforts. Fromberger also served as the technical lead and manager for the Kythe (or Grok) open source project at Google.
Network security company OPAQ hired Lynn Tinney as its SVP of channels.
Data management company Veeam Software restructured its executive team. It promoted co-founder Andrei Baronov to CEO; it promoted co-founder Ratmir Timashev to EVP of worldwide sales and marketing; and it named William Largent as EVP of operations.
The Storage Networking Industry Association named its board of directors and technical council.
Network and data center provider eStruxture hired Annie Corbeil as senior vice president and chief financial officer.
Security management firm RiskSense named Alok Damireddy as its VP of engineering.
Jason Donahue joined Scality’s board of directors as its chairman.
Endpoint visibility firm Absolute named Christy Wyatt as its CEO. Wyatt also joined its board of directors.
Programmable networking company Dispersive Networks appointed Christopher Swan as its chief revenue officer.
Optical network analytics company LightRiver Software hired Travis Ewert as chief operating officer.
Managed security services provider (MSSP) Proficio hired Dickon Smart-Gill as its global chief information officer, chief information security officer, and SVP of healthcare security services.
Security education and training company Circadence Corporation named Bradley Hayes as its chief technology officer.
Ericsson fired 50 people following an internal investigation into a kickback scheme scandal.
BT hired Philip Jansen to replace the departing Gavin Patterson as its chief executive.
Nokia will cut thousands of jobs as part of a restructuring in order to cut $800 million in costs by 2020.
Cisco began a new round of layoffs that will result in hundreds of employees losing their jobs.
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