Here are some of the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes that happened in November. 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.
IBM Slashes 10,000 Jobs, 20% of European WorkforceIBM announced plans to cut about 10,000 jobs, or 20% of its staff, in Europe as it prepares to spin-off its lagging legacy business units, and reorient itself as a hybrid-cloud powerhouse.
The massive job cuts, which were first reported by Bloomberg based on conversations IBM had with labor representatives in Europe in early November, will impact employees in the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Italy, and Belgium.
The major workforce reduction comes less than two months after IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced plans to ditch IBM’s Managed Infrastructure Services and Global Technology Services business units into a separate company in a bid to allow the company to be “laser-focused” on the hybrid cloud market.
Job losses will hit hardest at these units, a move obviously intended to cut costs prior to the separation from IBM proper, which the company hopes to complete before the end of 2021.
Cisco Skips Layoff Talk, Posts Q1 Beat Despite 9% Revenue DropBack in October, Cisco reportedly began laying off about 9% of its workforce — six months after Robbins pledged not to cut jobs in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The layoffs, first reported by FierceTelecom citing a thread on TheLayoff.com, will impact more than 7,100 employees.
And while Robbins didn’t mention the layoffs on the Q1 call, nor was he asked about the job cuts, anonymous Cisco employees expressed their displeasure on TheLayoff.com. One said the company’s bonuses were also cut in half this year. “Bonus cut in half. Large layoffs. Earnings report was outstanding. OK,” another anonymous employee posted.
A Cisco spokeswoman declined to commend on company bonuses or how many employees will be affected by the job cuts. “Over the coming weeks and months, Cisco will increase our investments in key business areas that will drive customer satisfaction and partner profitability going forward and reduce investments in others,” the spokeswoman said. “We will be restructuring parts of our business as a result.”
Other Movers and ShakersBusiness acceleration cloud company CloudShare appointed Bizzabo's former VP of product, Amir Hofman to the post of chief product officer.
Microsoft named former McAfee CEO Christopher Young as EVP business development.
AT&T CFO John Stephens announced his plans to retire next March after 28 years with the company. Pascal Desroches, WarnerMedia CFO, will succeed Stephens, effective April 1, 2021.
William E. Kennard was selected to be chairman of AT&T’s board of directors, , effective January 2021, following the retirement of Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s current executive chairman of the board.
Phizzle hired Jeff Cristee, former VPt of global sales training and development at Cisco Systems, to the role of CRO.
Cisco announced that R. Scott Herren will join the company as its new EVP and CFO on Dec. 18, 2020.
Former Google executive Michael Coleman joined TerraScale as its new CIO.
Dominick Delfino left VMware for a new post as CRO and global head of sales at Pure Storage.
Ciena promoted Joe Cumello from VP and CMO to SVP of global marketing and communications.
Virtana welcomed Kash Shaikh, who previously served as global VP and GM for the enterprise infrastructure solutions business for Dell Technologies, as the company's new president and CEO.
Rob Shanahan, former president and CEO of Lightower Fiber Networks, was appointed to Windstream's board of managers.
Chad Hooker was named Fluent Commerce's new VP for North America.
Global systems management and security software provider Quest Software announced Patrick Nichols as the company’s new CEO. Former Quest CEO, Mike Kohlsdorf, who preceded Nichols, will transition to his primary role as president of Francisco Partners Consulting.
Mark McArdle joined Imprivata as they company's new VP of products and design.
CommScope introduced John “Jack” Carlson as its new CCO.
Open Systems added two new names to its executive team with the appointments of Fredrik Torstenssen as CRO and Ric Longenecker as CISO.
Cloud-native data analytics and security company Devo Technology appointed Upesh Patel to his new post as SVP of corporate development.
Infinidat welcomed Shahar Bar-Or to his new role as chief product officer of Israeli operations.
Former Venmo executive Bill Scott joined DevOps automation company Transposit as its new VP of engineering.
Data privacy platform provider Privitar announced the expansion of its senior leadership team with the additions of Jessi Marcoff as chief people officer and Nicky Brocklehurst as VP of people.
Jon DiMaggio was named Analyst1's new chief security strategist.
Johnny Ayers, co-founder and chief product officer of Day Zero identity verification company Socure, stepped into the position of CEO. Former CEO Tom Thimot, who joined Socure in early 2018, left to pursue new endeavors.
Managed Desktop as a Service (DaaS) provider appointed Kwesi Ames to the position of SVP of operations.
Deep Instinct added Mark Anderson, CEO of Alteryx, and John Spiliotis, SVP at Palo Alto Networks, to its board of advisors.
Former Vodafone CTO Vishant Vora joined Mavenir as its new president, global customer operations and managed services.
Vast data expanded its executive leadership team with three new appointments:
- Peter Gadd – VP of international sales
- David Noy – VP of product management
- Daniel Bounds – VP of marketing
Small Cell Forum announced its 2021 executive board:
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