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

Arm Holdings plans to cut up to 15% of its workforce, about 1,000 jobs globally, less than two months after Nvidia’s $40 billion bid for the company collapsed. 

The Britain-based company intends to largely slash jobs in the United Kingdom and the U.S. It employs more than 6,500 people globally, including roughly 3,000 employees in its home country, according to The Guardian.

The chip designer faced insurmountable regulatory pushback to its deal with Nvidia. The failure to bring the two companies together resulted in a swift CEO change and its conglomerate owner SoftBank announced it would fall back on its backup plan to take the company public in the first quarter of 2023.

Nvidia coughed up a $1.25 billion breakup fee after abandoning the deal, but the cash infusion apparently wasn’t enough to delay massive job losses.

Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm and other members of the company’s board aren’t off the legal hook for a scandal that has engulfed the radio access network (RAN) vendor and slashed the Swedish company’s value by at least 25%.

Shareholders representing more than 10% of Ericsson shares declined to support a measure that would discharge board members of liability for 2021 activities. That 10% threshold is significant under Swedish law because Ekholm and other board members can now be held personally liable and sued by the company and its investors, according to Reuters. 

At issue is Ekholm and the company’s failure to disclose information to the public, shareholders, and authorities it appears, regarding Ericsson’s operations in Iraq. The U.S. Department of Justice recently determined the company breached a $1.06 billion settlement it reached with the agency in 2019 related to a 17-year period of criminal wrongdoing in six other countries. 

Splunk named Gary Steele as CEO.

The Open Compute Project Foundation appointed George Tchaparian as CEO.

PKWARE appointed Craig Irwin as VP of global sales.

Rakuten Symphony appointed former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) leader Ajit Pai to its board of directors.

Cybrary hired Rob Usey as CTO, Charlie Booth as CFO, Mary Fad as VP of marketing, and Tonya Butler as VP of people.

Windstream Wholesale appointed Phil Cusumano as head of global accounts.

Illumio appointed Jennifer Johnson as chief marketing officer.

ServiceTitan appointed Sendur Sellakumar as SVP of construction and commercial.

Boardable appointed Natalie Cunningham as VP of marketing, Celine North as VP of sales, and Krista Martin as VP of product and growth.

Pythian Services announced the appointment of Joey Jablonski as VP of analytics.

NetAbstraction appointed Susan Bryant as VP of sales for the Americas.

Cynet announced the appointment of Bruno Darmon as chief strategy officer.

Delphix appointed Robert Stevenson as VP of Japan operations.

Couchbase appointed Gopi Duddi as SVP of engineering.

Evoque appointed Khozem Lokhandwala as CFO.

Analog Devices hired Gregory Bryant as EVP and president of business units.

Itential hired Mike Dayton as chief revenue officer.

Query.AI appointed Neal Bridges as CISO.

Solo.io appointed Rob Bailer as CFO and Brian Gracely as VP of product strategy.

Exabeam appointed Mark Jensen to its board of directors and as chair of its audit committee.

Hyland hired Dan Dennis as SVP and CISO.

NetAbstraction appointed Alissa Knight to its board of advisors.

GBK Collective announced the appointment of Jann Schwarz to its board of directors.

Exabeam appointed Richard Orange as VP of EMEA.

Safe Security appointed Michael Johnson to its board of directors.

The Telecom Infra Project appointed Kristian Toivo as executive director of its board.

Eigen Technologies appointed Dean Hervey as VP of ISV and OEM partners, Mahesh Santhanam and Chris Mullan as principal product managers, and Daniel White as director of product design.

Luminous Computing appointed Michael Hochberg as president.

Thumbtack appointed PJ Linarducci as chief product officer.

Finite State hired Kirk Appelman as EVP of sales and Gün Akkor as CTO.

Aware appointed Bill Strogis as chief revenue officer.

Pentera appointed nine new members to its management team.

Invicti Security hired Steven Fitz as chief revenue officer.

Zylo appointed Courtney Shaffer Lovold as SVP of sales.

Avocado appointed Joseph Feiman as chief strategy officer.

AuditBoard named Josh Harding as CFO.

OmniSpeech appointed David Przygoda as CEO.

Platform9 appointed Vishwa Kapadia as chief people officer.

Domino Data Lab appointed John Kahan to a strategic board advisor role.

Hybrid Theory appointed Ava Moran as SVP of sales.

Ericsson hired Scott Dresser as chief legal officer.

SAP announced that CFO Luka Mucic will leave the company on March 31, 2023.

Trellix appointed Aparna Rayasam as chief product officer.

AHEAD hired Preet Michelson as chief people officer.

Rigetti Computing appointed Greg Peters as chief revenue officer.

GrammaTech appointed Dan Goodwin as head of its cybersecurity research division.

Speedb hired Chip Ernst as VP of U.S. sales.

Lacework appointed Brian Lanigan as VP of worldwide channel and alliances.

ScaleFlux hired Eric Pike as VP of business development.

BackBox appointed Pete Morrison as VP of sales, Thierry Guenoun as EMEA regional sales director, and Jonathon Moore as VP of marketing.

Contentful appointed Mairead O’Donovan as chief product officer and Søren Abildgaard as EVP of engineering.

TIM appointed Maria Enrica Danese as chief of institutional communications, sustainability projects, and sponsorship.

Cloudera appointed Abhas as chief strategy officer, Prat Moghe as EVP and GM of cloud, and Irma Laxamana as chief legal officer.

Delta Data announced Whitfield Athey stepped down as CEO and will be succeeded by Cameron Routh.

Everlaw appointed Rich Liu as chief revenue officer.

Netrix hired Mahmood Akhtar as director of data intelligence.

Black Kite appointed Jeffrey Wheatman as cyber risk evangelist.

CaptivateIQ appointed Nahi Ojeil as VP of engineering and Naveed Makhani as VP of product.