Here are some of the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes that happened in June. 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.
Cisco Security Biz Gets New Chief, New Name, Unified PlatformCisco CEO Chuck Robbins announced in a blog post that Jeetu Patel will join Cisco as SVP and GM of its newly formed Security and Applications business group on Aug. 3.
SecureX integrates all of Cisco’s network, endpoint, cloud, and application security products, as well as threat intelligence from Cisco Talos, in a cloud-native platform. It unifies visibility and provides threat metrics across four areas, and uses a feature that Jeff Reed, SVP of product for Cisco Security Business Group, calls the “SecureX security ribbon” to essentially link all of Cisco’s security technologies so customers can access the platform across of these products.
Alibaba Cloud Kicks Off Hiring SurgeAlibaba Group announced plans to hire 5,000 people for its Alibaba Cloud operations, one of the ecommerce giant’s fastest growing business units, during the next 10 months. The workforce expansion comes less than two months after the company announced plans to invest $28 billion in its cloud platform during the next three years.
Alibaba said it will make the hires before the end of its financial calendar year, which ends on March 31, 2021. The company is recruiting IT professionals with expertise in networking, database management, servers, chips, and artificial intelligence (AI). The financial and employee efforts are buoyed by a surge in cloud computing demand that has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coronavirus Claims 200 Jobs at GSMAThe COVID-19 crisis claimed about 200 jobs at GSMA, the telecommunications industry’s largest and most consequential body. Massive job cuts, which impacted about one-fifth of the association’s workforce, hit four months after the group canceled its flagship annual conference in Barcelona.
GSMA, which previously employed around 1,000 people, earns about 80% of its annual revenue from MWC Barcelona, according to Bloomberg. The trade group’s CMO Stephanie Lynch-Habib told the news outlet that GSMA doesn’t expect to recover from the COVID-19 crisis until 2023, and it has cut bonuses and on-staff spending by about 40% this year.
The job cuts hit just one day after GSMA announced a new series of virtual events called GSMA Thrive, hinting at a reframing of events should the COVID-19 crisis extend through the remainder of 2020 and into 2021.
Headcount Movers and ShakersDomestic telecom giants AT&T and T-Mobile US are set to slash thousands of jobs at a time when the U.S. is posting record levels of unemployment impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Pekka Lundmark will step into his new role as Nokia's president and CEO on August 1, 2020 – one month earlier than previously announced. Lundmark succeeds Rajeev Suri, who will vacate his position on July 31, and continue to serve as an advisor to the Nokia Board until Jan. 1, 2021.
Nokia also confirmed that it plans to cut 1,233 jobs in France, largely impacting research and development positions at its Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary.
SoftIron named Andrew Moloney as VP of strategy.
Former director of cloud native alliances at GitLab, Priyanka Sharma joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as its new GM.
Global cybersecurity provider Forcepoint welcomed Myrna Soto to a newly-created role as the company's chief strategy and trust officer.
Kevin Gannon was appointed Cygilant's new VP of engineering.
Google Cloud hired former SAP CPO Abdul Razack as VP of technology solutions and solutions engineering.
Commvault announced Manoj Nair as the new GM of Metallic, the company’s software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based data backup and recovery arm.
David Fairman, the former CSO of National Australia Bank and Royal Bank of Canada, was named CSO for Netskope's Asia-Pacific region.
Extreme Networks welcomed Joe Vitalone as the company's new chief revenue officer.
Global public policy consultancy firm Access Partnership appointed Hector Huici, partner of Pinedo & Huici, as senior advisor for the Latin America region.
Leipzig-based German network troubleshooting specialist Allegro Packet joined Niagara Networks Technology Partner Program.
Palo Alto Networks named Luis Felipe Visoso as its new CFO.
Optiv Security announced David Martin as the company’s chief security officer.
ZeroNorth added a new name to its leadership team with the appointment of Christian van den Branden as SVP of engineering.
Hugo Teufel was welcomed to his new post at CenturyLink as the company's chief product officer.
Flexera's Joe Freda retired from his post as CFO and passed the reins over to David Zwick who has held CFO positions at Hilco Global and Inteliquent.
Laurent Therivel was appointed president and CEO of U.S. Cellular effective July 1. Therivel will also replace former CEO Kenneth Meyers on both the U.S. Cellular and TDS Boards of Directors.
Arun Bansal joined Ericsson's board of directors as the company's new EVP. Bansal previously served as the Ericsson's SVP and head of market area for Europe and Latin America.
Ken Grohe was named WekaIO's new president and chief revenue officer.
Digital transformation consulting and managed IT service provider Green House Data expanded its cloud leadership team with the addition of Drew Mellen as VP of Microsoft cloud enablement.
Michael Knight joined IntelliSite as chief digital officer.
Qumulo appointed Adriana Gil Miner as chief marketing officer.
Roman Orosco left his post at BlueCat Networks as VP of Americas for a new role as Unravel Data's VP of worldwide sales.
Clckwrk co-founder Peter Berry was named Navisite's CTO of cloud technologies.
Dave Furneaux, who has served on Virsec’s board since 2014, expanded his role to CEO. Virsec’s former CEO Atiq Raza will remain at the company as executive chairman.
VMware welcomed Carol Carpenter to its leadership team as the company's new chief marketing officer.
Cloud-native data protection software provider Trillo announced the addition of D2iQ co-CEO Will Freiberg to the company’s board of directors.
Nokia appointed Marco Wirén as CFO of the company and member of the group leadership team. Wirén will join take his post on September 1, succeeding current CFO Kristian Pullola.
Robert O’Donovan was named Cohesity's new CFO. O'Donovan was formerly CFO at DataStax and Pivotal Software.
Juniper Networks announced Sharon Mandell as its new SVP and CIO.
Dish Network expanded its senior leadership team with the additions of Dave Mayo as its new EVP of network development, John Swieringa as group president for retail wireless, and Jeff Blum was promoted to EVP of external and legislative affairs.
Jim Keller, SVP of Intel's Silicon Engineering Group, resigned from his post effective immediately. Intel announced a slew of leadership changes:
- Sundari Mitra will lead a newly created IP Engineering Group focused on developing IP.
- Gloria Leong will spearhead the Xeon Performance Group.
- Gene Scuteri will lead the Xeon Networking Engineering Group.
- Uri Frank will lead the Client Engineering Group.
- Daaman Hejmadi will lead the newly created Design Enablement Group.
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