Here are some of the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes that happened in December. 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 lost a trio of top executives that departed the company as it moves closer to being acquired by Broadcom.

The trio of execs include Tom Gillis, who was SVP and GM of VMware’s Networking and Advanced Security Business Group; Mark Lohmeyer, who was SVP and GM of VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure Business Group; and Ajay Patel, who was SVP and GM of Modern Apps at VMware. Gillis had been at VMware for more than four years, having replaced long-time company veteran Jeff Jennings; Lohmeyer had been at the vendor for more than eight years, having joined after a four-year-stint at Cisco; and Patel had been at VMware for more than nine years, having previously been at Oracle. Read more.

Karat recently hired Crystal Moore as VP of its Brilliant Black Minds program to aid in its goal of doubling the number of Black software engineers in the United States.

The software-based technical interviewing company is focused on conveying the business benefits to prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). Brilliant Black Minds is its flagship move to formalize the work into a partnership program.

Karat launched the program 2021, leveraging its interviewing resources, development training, and feedback to help prepare students for technical interviewing. The work recently gained momentum landing partnerships with Prime Video, Citi, Duolingo, Indeed, and Flatiron Health. Read more.

The industry’s talent shortage has been a hot topic this year. From new hiring platform models to nearshoring efforts, Reporter Tommy Clift rounded up SDxCentral’s top articles of 2022 on tackling tech’s talent shortage. Read more.

Veriff announced Suvrat Joshi as VP of product.

Benevity appointed Lance Ludman as CFO.

NEXT hired Chris Rhodes as chief insurance officer.

Agiloft appointed Prashant Dubey as chief strategy officer and research chair.

Skybox Security appointed Corey Williams as CMO.

AutoGrid Systems Inc announced Scott McGaraghan as chief revenue officer.

Genesys appointed Barbara Holzapfel as CMO.

GitHub announced Inbal Shani as chief product officer.

OpenDrives appointed Izhar Sharon as CEO.

Schneider Electric announced Robert Cain as CIO in North America.

Momentive appointed Rich Sullivan as CFO.

Lacework hired Niels Provos as head of security efficacy.

Barracuda hired Joe Billante as chief financial officer.

Acalvio Technologies announced Anand Akela as CMO.

CloudBees announced Marc Gemassmer as chief revenue officer.

Karat hired Scott Bonneau as EVP of operations and product.

Trellix announced Harold Rivas as CISO.

Forcepoint promoted Myles Bray to chief revenue officer.

Sectigo appointed Kevin Weiss as CEO.