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

Arctic Wolf elevated President Nick Schneider to CEO less than a month after closing a $150 million Series F funding round that boosted its valuation to $4.3 billion.

Arctic Wolf’s original CEO Brian NeSmith, who co-founded the company in 2012, will move into the executive chairman role as the cybersecurity unicorn eyes an initial public offering (IPO) in the next year — and a $150.4 billion market opportunity.

“It’s a massive market,” Schneider said in an interview with SDxCentral. “And the reason for the market being so significant is that it’s really poised for consolidation. Security’s still looking for that category-defining platform, and that’s our goal. That’s the opportunity for Arctic Wolf.”

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) CEO Antonio Neri made significant changes to the vendor’s executive ranks and the delivery structure of its GreenLake and Ezmeral cloud platforms in a move that further highlights his focus on HPE’s as-a-service business models.

The most senior shakeup is the impending exit of current CTO Kumar Sreekanti, who joined the company just two years ago. Neri in a statement said Sreekanti will stay on until a new CTO is named, which is expected by next month.

Sreekanti was a co-founder and served as CEO at artificial intelligence (AI) and big data software vendor BlueData, which HPE acquired in late 2018. Prior to forming BlueData, Sreekanti served as VP of research and development at VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure Business Unit.

Exabeam appointed former McAfee executive Pedro Abreu as COO.

Palo Alto Networks appointed Amit Singh as chief business officer and BJ Jenkins as president.

Sumo Logic announced CFO Sydney Carey is leaving the company. 

Okta welcomed Sagnik Nandy as CTO and president of technology.

OutSystems appointed Anu Bharadwaj, VP of product at Atlassian, to its board of directors.

Interface Security Systems announced the appointment of Bud Homeyer as EVP of enterprise solutions.

Progress appointed Ian Pitt as CIO.

Lightbend announced the appointment of Puppet CTO Abby Kearns to its board of directors.

ReliaQuest appointed Brian Foster as VP of product, Paul Kraus as VP of engineering, and Dan Wire as VP of brand and communications.

Lumen Technologies appointed Dave Young as SVP of strategic sales. Zain Ahmen will take Young’s place as SVP of the public sector.

Miro announced the appointment of Varun Parmar as chief product officer.

ScyllaDB appointed Wayne Ariola as CMO.

Barracuda Networks announced the appointment of Hatem Naguib as CEO and to its board of directors.

Intel appointed Christy Pambianchi as EVP and chief people officer. The chip giant also announced the appointment of Bruce Andrews as corporate VP and chief government affairs officer.

Quantum announced the appointment of John Hurley as chief revenue officer.

Forcepoint appointed Rees Johnson as chief product officer.

Rigetti Computing announced the appointment of Brian Sereda as CFO.

UST announced plans to hire more than 10,000 new employees this year.

ForgeRock appointed Tschudy Smith as chief people officer.

CloudTruth appointed Derek Schoettle to its board of directors.

Aqua Security named Christopher Smith as chief revenue officer.

Optiv Security appointed John Ayers as SVP of MXDR, Shane Cox as VP of security operations, and Rocky DeStefano as SVP of innovation and development.

Entrata named Jason Tyler its new CTO.

Infinera appointed Ron Johnson as GM of its optical systems and network solutions group, Tom Burns as GM of optical modules and coherent solutions group, Azmina Somani as SVP of engineering for optical modules and coherent solutions group, and Russ Esmacher as SVP of strategy. 

Cambridge Broadband Networks Group appointed Charles Loverso as VP.

Itential named Nicolas Alberga as its new CFO.

CloudBees appointed Peter Meechan as chief corporate development officer and Jinny Jun as chief people officer.

Pathwire announced Jesse Kinser as its new CISO.

StorCentric announced that John Coughlan has joined the company as CFO.

TrueFort named Paul Ciesielski its new chief revenue officer.

Microsoft promoted Panos Panay from chief product officer to EVP and added him to the company’s senior leadership team.

Mavenir named Jorgen Nilsson as president of its enterprise connect solutions.

Aryaka announced the appointment of Steve Harrington as managing director for Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

Kaloom appointed former VMware executive Marc Tremblay as chief sales officer.