Here are some of the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes that happened in July. 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 Sydney Sawaya ([email protected]) for inclusion in the monthly headcount column.

Intel’s lead engineer Venkata Renduchintala left the company after CEO Bob Swan announced sweeping changes to its leadership team. The news came less than a week after Intel revealed its next-generation 7-nanometer chips were behind schedule as a result of a flaw in the manufacturing process.

Renduchintala joined Intel in 2015, where he served as chief engineering officer and group president of the Technology, Systems Architecture, and Client Group (TSCG). Renduchintala’s departure is the result of a broader overhaul of that group. As part of the restructure, Intel will break up the TSCG into five teams all reporting directly to Swan.

Under the new structure, Ann Kelleher, who currently serves as SVP and GM of manufacturing and operations at Intel, will head up the development of 7-nanometer and 5-nanometer processes under the newly formed Technology Development division. Manufacturing and operations will be handed off to Keyvan Esfarjani, who most recently led manufacturing for Intel’s Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group.

Design engineering will fall on the shoulders of Josh Walden, SVP and GM of Intel’s Product Assurance and Security (IPAS), while the chipmaker searches for a permanent design lead. During this time, the IPAS team will continue to report to Walden.

Craig Thomas joined the Broadband Forum as its new senior director of strategic marketing.

Access Partnership launched a new advisory board, naming Ed Vaizey, Martha Suarez, Mike Senkowski, Nancy Victory, Simon Bax, and Stephen Pattison is its initial appointments.

IT infrastructure provider Element Critical promoted Wayne Dietrich to COO.

Immersive Labs announced Jack Huffard, a co-founder and board member of Tenable, joined its board of directors.

Breach and attack simulation vendor AttackIQ appointed Mark Bagley as its new VP of product.

Collibra welcomed Stuart Wilson to his new post as chief revenue officer and Aileen Black to a newly-created role as SVP of public sector.

Kevin Shatzkamer ditched Dell EMC for a new post at Google Cloud as its digital transformation officer for telecom.

Former Palo Alto Networks executive Adam Geller was named Exabeam's new chief product officer.

SolarWinds introduced Liz Beavers as the newest member of the company’s Head Geek team.

Ivan Pittaluga, who previously served as VP of data protection and governance for Veritas Technologies, joined Arcserve as its new CTO.

Cockroach Labs added a new name to its board of directors with the addition of its current CPO Nate Stewart.

Masahiro Arai was appointed to the newly created position of COO at SIOS Technology.

Centrify welcomed Flint Brenton as its new CEO. Brenton, who previously served as president and CEO of CollabNet VersionOne (now Digital.ai), replaced former Centrify CEO Tim Steinkopf, who recently retired for health reasons.

Endpoint protection vendor Cybereason hired former president and CEO Andrew Borene as its new managing director for its U.S. public sector business.

David Simmen left his post at Apple where he engineered iCloud database services to serve as Ahana's new CTO.

Access Partnership appointed Ahmed El Sherbini, former deputy ICT minister of Egypt, and Héctor Urrea, who previously held senior corporate affairs positions at Microsoft, Nokia and Telefónica, as senior advisers for the Middle East and Latin America regions.

Vology named Walt Walker as the company's new COO.

Third-party data center maintenance provider Service Express welcomed John Madden to his new role as the company's CFO.

Ciena announced Hassan Ahmed, who most recently served as chairman of the board and CEO of Affirmed Networks, has been appointed to its board of directors. The networking systems, services and software company also named Kazuyasu Takahashi VP and GM of its Japan business.

Verizon Public Sector added Jennifer Chronis to its ranks where she will lead its Federal business.

Ikuo Matsuhashi, formerly a managing director with Goldman Sachs Japan, joined NEC as a corporate executive.

Aryaka welcomed Michelle Mitchell to her new post as the company's chief human resources officer.

AMD appointed methodology architect Alex Starr as a Corporate Fellow.

Technology executive and strategist Henri Richard became an Excelero board advisor.

Storj Labs added former Equinix CIO Brian Lillie to its board of directors.

Nabil Bukhari stepped into his new post as CTO at Extreme Networks.

NS1 expanded its executive team with three new hires including David Wilson as CFO, Lorraine Heber-Brause as VP and global head of people, and Sanjay Ramnath as VP of product marketing.