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

Intel Poaches VMware’s Greg Lavender, Shakes Up Exec Staff

Intel shook up its executive staff again, appointing former VMware CTO Greg Lavender as its new CTO and announcing the departure of longtime executive Navin Shenoy. Lavender fills the seat left by former Intel CTO Michael Mayberry who retired in late 2020.

Intel is also splitting its lucrative Data Platform Group (DPG) into two divisions, one focused on data center and artificial intelligence (AI) and another focused on networking and edge compute applications.

$2.4B Valuation Shows ‘How Big Exabeam Can Be,’ CEO DeCesare Says

Exabeam announced that it closed a $200 million late-stage funding round on a $2.4 billion valuation and hired a new CEO: Michael DeCesare, who previously was president of McAfee, and most recently served as CEO and president of ForeScout Technologies.

DeCesare’s got big plans for the security analytics vendor. “I ultimately believe that our destiny is to be a major player in the larger category called security operations,” he said in an interview with SDxCentral.

Other Movers and Shakers 

StackPath appointed Keith Wilson as CFO.

Ermetic named Toby Buschini as VP of worldwide sales.

Phil Mottram was introduced as the president of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Intelligent Edge business.

SecureLink appointed Patrick Tickel as CEO and Robert Humphrey as chief marketing officer.

Accenture Federal Services entered into an agreement to acquire Novetta.

Manon Brouillette was named COO and Deputy CEO at Verizon Consumer Group.

Secureworks CEO Michael Cote announced his retirement, and Wendy Thomas was appointed as president and CEO.

Steve Preston was named CEO of TrapX Security.

Cybrary announced Kevin Hanes as the cybersecurity workforce development platform’s new CEO.

Riverbed appointed Dan Smoot as president and CEO.

Foresite announced Matt Gyde as chairman and CEO.

Dr. Boaz Gelbord was announced as chief security officer at Akamai Technologies.

Samantha Madrid, VP of security business and strategy at Juniper Networks, was elected to the Cyber Threat Alliance’s board of directors.

Cockroach Labs named Lorenzo Montesi as CFO.

Bharat Guruprakash was appointed chief product officer of Algolia.

Dell Technologies hired Chuck Whitten as co-COO.

Microsoft appointed CEO Satya Nadella as chairman.

Michael Montoya, CISO at Equinix, was appointed to F5 Networks’ board of directors.

Dremio appointed Alan Gibson as chief revenue officer, Amit Manor as head of channel and alliances, Debbie Klett as head of strategic partner and channel marketing, and Deepa Sankar as VP of portfolio marketing. 

OpenDrives hired Ethan Cole as director of product management and Tim Chunn as director of business development. 

Lightbits Labs appointed Gil Sasson to chief R&D officer.

Ivanti appointed Daniel Spicer as VP of security.

Transposit announced Ryan Taylor has joined as VP of product.

CloudBees named Prakash Sethuraman as CISO.

Mimecast appointed David Raissipour as chief technology and product officer.

Virsec named Marnie Wilking as board advisor.

GreyOrange appointed Lesley Simmonds as VP of global business development and alliances.

Foresite expanded its senior leadership team with the addition of Mark Behan as SVP of operations. 

Platform9 appointed Diane Bryant as an independent board of director.

Nutanix elected Virginia Gambale as chair of the board.

Illusive announced an expansion of its leadership team, including Brendan O’Connell as chief product officer, Mark Jaffe as VP of strategy and business development, and Ori Mebel as VP of people.

TrapX Security appointed Guy Waizel as COO.

CIPIO announced its appointments of Sundeep Sanghavi as CEO and Dipak Patel as CMO.

Letitia Long was appointed to T-Mobile’s board of directors. 

Kyndryl announced its appointment of Antoine Shagoury as CTO.

CircleCI named Apurva Joshi as chief product officer.

Secureworks announced the appointment of Tracey Mustacchio as CMO.

AHEAD named Traci Dolan to its board of directors as audit committee chair.

Devo Technology named Gunter Ollmann as chief security officer, Jennifer Grunebaum as CFO, and Adrianna Gugel as VP of product management and security operations. 

Dev Stahlkopf was named executive VP and chief legal officer at Cisco. 

Bugcrowd announced Ellie Wu joined its executive team as VP of customer experience.

Quantum named Ross Fujii general manager of emerging markets and product marketing.