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 Emma Chervek ([email protected]) for inclusion in the monthly headcount column.

Tom Corn, former SVP of security at VMware, is the latest executive to depart the company in search of greener pastures. Corn announced he’s joined managed security and networking vendor Open Systems as CPO.

“Once in a while something pops up that you just can’t not do,” he told SDxCentral in an exclusive interview. “I didn’t leave VMware to go do this lightly. I thought this really was the most substantial … opportunity I think I’ve seen in a while.”

As CPO, Corn will oversee product management, marketing, and engineering at Open Systems. “It’s really charting the vision and building the solutions for the products that we’re bringing to market,” he said.

GitHub doubled down on security with the hiring of the National Security Agency’s former head of open source Jacob DePriest. He recently joined the company as VP of security operations.

“When we talk about security on the platform and security for our community, our goal is to shift left really in all aspects of security,” DePriest said in an interview with SDxCentral. “In today’s age, every developer needs to understand a little about security, or has to think about and account for security.”

Kaloom announced that former IBM executive George Khatchadourian was appointed as EVP of strategic partnerships. 

The Open Compute Project elected Rebecca Weekly as chairperson, replacing Mark Roenigk. In addition, Rocky Bullock retired from his position as CEO after serving on the board since its inception.

Qualcomm appointed Don McGuire as SVP and CMO.

Intel 471 appointed Yang Coa as APAC senior regional director.

Sierra Wireless appointed Phil Brace as president and CEO.

Keyfactor announced the appointment of Martin Musierowicz as chief revenue officer. 

Rubrik appointed Anneka Gupta as chief product officer.

Egnyte appointed Stan Hansen as chief revenue officer.

Exclusive Networks appointed Brian Vincik as VP North America.

Celona announced the addition of six new executives: Laura Perrone as CFO, Ruchika Chopra as VP of growth operations, Brad Jones as VP of HR and legal, Dariush Afshar as VP of business development and strategic operations, Royal Collette as VP of U.S. federal sales, and Todd Gore as VP of service provider sales. 

Serverfarm appointed Jochem Steman to its leadership team.

Forescout Technologies announced that co-founder Oded Comay will serve as chief innovation officer and promoted Ellen Sundra to chief customer officer.

Gong appointed Kelly Breslin Wright as president and COO after serving as Gong’s board member for five months. 

Balbix announced Trevor Daughney as its new CMO. 

Ten Eleven Ventures announced that Todd Weber has joined as operating partner and CTO.

ionir appointed Mike Wall as CEO.

Armis appointed Sachin Shah as its new CTO for operational technology.

Aqua Security appointed Matt Richards as CMO.

Infoblox announced the appointment of Brad Rinklin as CMO and EVP.

Mavenir appointed Bejoy Pankajakshan as chief technology and strategy officer. 

Noname Security appointed Karl Mattson as CISO.

Extreme Networks announced Calvin Rowland joined the company as SVP of SaaS.

Collibra appointed Madalina Tanasie as CTO.

Lacework announced Jay Parikh will join the company as co-CEO.

Jumio appointed Anna Convery as CMO.

Pica8 announced the appointment of Kelly LeBlanc as CMO and Mike Hoffman as chief revenue officer.

Amelia Estwick joined VMware as director of threat research.

Tanium hired Teddra Burgess as SVP for the public sector.

Kyndryl announced the appointment of David Wyshner as CFO.

Logitix appointed Stuart Halberg as CEO, Kurt Schneider as executive chairperson, Eric Ingram as CFO, and Trent Stewart as head of engineering.

Druva announced the appointment of Ash Parikh as CMO.