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

Foundry capacity will remain tight as customers continue stockpiling chips and semiconductor demand ramps throughout 2022, warned Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. CEO C.C. Wei.

“We continue to observe the structural increase in long-term semiconductor demand, underpinned by the industry megatrend of 5G and HPC-related applications,” he said. “We also observe higher silicon content in many end devices, including automotive, PCs, servers, networking, and smartphones.”

To mitigate these trends, TSMC is aggressively expanding its foundry capacity to the tune of $40 billion to $44 billion in 2022, up from $30 billion last year. Of that, 70% to 80% will go toward advanced process technologies including the foundry operator’s upcoming 2- and 3-nanometer manufacturing processes, CFO Wendell Huang said.

A quick glance back at the biggest cybersecurity incidents of 2021 tells us two things, according to NetFoundry CEO Galeal Zino: secure access service edge (SASE) has proven effective at securing user-to-app communications, and it's not enough to keep the threat actors out.

“All the major 2021 attacks, they’ve not been between the user and the app, they’ve been what I would call below the waterline of the iceberg, server to server, webserver to database, every single one of them,” he told SDxCentral.

That’s not to say SASE isn’t necessary or isn’t effective, Zino said. “It’s just that it’s not sufficient.”

The problem is there are still plenty of avenues by which attackers can exploit enterprises’ existing infrastructure and development environments. SASE might protect the application front-end, but the app’s underlying dependencies, databases, and APIs are still vulnerable to attack. Addressing this requires moving “security into the heart of the development cycle,” he said.

Orange appointed Christel Heydemann as CEO.

Palo Alto Networks appointed Helmut Reisinger as CEO for EMEA and Latin America.

Dish Network named John Swieringa as president and COO.

Databricks appointed Naveen Zutshi as chief information officer.

Aqua Security announced the appointment of Paul Calatayud as CISO.

Expereo appointed Ben Elms as chief revenue officer.

Sectigo announced the appointment of David Mahdi as chief strategy officer and CISO advisor.

Ermetic named Avi Israel as CFO.

NeoSystems appointed Susan Mitchell as CFO and Brad Wolf as SVP of IT operations.

Invicti Security appointed Jeff Bray as CFO.

Equinix announced the appointment of Jon Lin as EVP and GM of data center services. 

Microsoft’s augmented reality team lost around 100 employees in the past year, many to Meta.

HYCU appointed Kelly Hopping as CMO.

Intel announced EVP Michelle Johnston Holthaus will lead the company’s Client Computing Group. Intel also appointed David Zinsner as CFO.

vArmour appointed Corey Williams as SVP of marketing.

Traceable AI announced Alissa Knight joined the company’s CISO board of advisors.

RingCentral appointed Mo Katibeh as COO.

Telstra named Vish Vishwanathan as VP of its wholesale group for the Americas.

Incorta appointed Rob Dillon as CFO and Jacques Nadeau to the board of advisors.

Commvault announced the appointment of Danielle Sheer as chief legal and compliance officer.

Perimeter 81 appointed Lital Parush-David as VP of HR and Tal Laufer as VP of product.

Sysdig announced Gerald Combs joined the company.

Entara promoted Raum Sandoval to CISO.

Onapsis appointed Denis Cashman as CFO.

Domo appointed Mohammed Aaser as chief data officer.

CommScope hired Markus Ogurek as SVP and segment leader of Venue and Campus Networks.

Syntax appointed Dessalen Wood as chief people officer.

Onapsis appointed Rocco Donnino as SVP of global strategic alliances and channels.

Virsec announced the appointment of Brian Marlier as chief revenue officer.

CloudBolt Software appointed Brendan Dolan as CFO.

TigerGraph appointed Harry Powell as head of industry solutions. 

CAST AI appointed Norman Henderson as chief revenue officer.

PerimeterX appointed AJ Stahl as chief revenue officer, Raymond Lim as CFO, Doug Jones as SVP of corporate development and strategic alliances, and Mark Whitehead as SVP of service delivery.

(ISC)² hired Jon France as CISO.

Vade appointed Severin Walker as director of provider products and services.

Telos Corporation announced Bradley Jacobs and Derrick Dockery joined the company’s board of directors.

Sift appointed Alice Katwan to its board of directors and April Oman as chief customer officer.

Gluware appointed Ernest Lefner as chief product officer, Stanislav Miskovic as VP of AI, and Tim Silverline as VP of security.

Stairwell appointed Shel Sharma as VP of product, Siddhartha Sinha as VP of engineering, and Silas Cutler as principal reverse engineer.

Prosimo appointed Timo Prietto as head of strategic partners and channels.

Asigra appointed Eric Simmons as CEO, Val Silva as CTO, Pete Nourse as chief revenue officer, and Chris Gilkes as VP of worldwide sales.

Acceldata announced Sanjay Poonen has joined the company as an advisor and angel investor.

Caylent appointed Randall Hunt as VP of cloud strategy and solutions.

Lightmatter hired Beth Keil as VP of people.

Coalition appointed Chung-Man Tam as chief product officer.

Arctic Wolf appointed Todd Ford and Jill Putman to its board of directors.

Virtru hired Matt Howard as chief marketing officer.

Egnyte appointed Alexa King to its board of directors.

Balbix appointed Chris van Staden as chief revenue officer.

STG named Gee Rittenhouse as CEO of McAfee Enterprise.

Airspan Networks Holdings hired Glenn Laxdal as president and COO.

Alluxio appointed Danic Wang as SVP of global legal and head of China operations, Kiran Mehta as VP of engineering, and Eric Sun as VP of business development.

The GMSA Board appointed Telefónica CEO José María Álvarez-Pallete as board chair.

Coalesce appointed Vincent Calcagnile to lead sales, Frederik Naessens as head of technical architecture, and Mark Van Der Heijden as head of engineering.

Park Place appointed Chad Jones to lead North America channel sales.