Here are some of the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes. 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]).
Bill McDermott Finds a Home at ServiceNowFormerly unemployed SAP CEO Bill McDermott will take over as president and CEO of ServiceNow by the end of this year. And to sweeten the pot, McDermott will also take a board seat for the company.
McDermott recently announced an abrupt departure from SAP. The company said in a statement that its long-serving CEO “decided not to renew his contract.”
McDermott had led SAP for a decade and been with that firm since 2002. He will maintain contact with SAP through the end of the year in an advisory capacity as it transitions to a new, two-headed leadership model helmed by Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein.
Riverbed Banks new CEO, Launches SteelConnect EXRiverbed has a new captain as the company announced Rich McBee had been appointed president and CEO.
The former head of business communications firm Mitel, McBee relieves interim Riverbed CEO David Murphy who took over after Paul Mountford.
“I’m looking forward to working with our experienced team to accelerate our execution and drive great outcomes for Riverbed as well as for our partners and customers,” McBee said in a statement.
McBee sees Riverbed as well-positioned to capitalize on the growing number of organizations in the process of modernizing their WAN deployments.
According to Riverbed Chairman David Murphy, McBee is a good fit to accelerate the company’s upward momentum.
Headcount: Movers and ShakersAyman Sayed replaced Bob Beauchamp as president and CEO of BMC. Sayed most recently served as the president and chief product officer of CA Technologies. Beauchamp, who joined BMC as interim CEO in April 2019, and will continue his service to the company as chairman of its board.
North Carolina-based CloudJumper welcomed Paul Finn to the company’s management team as VP of sales.
Commvault announced appointments to its global enterprise and strategic and operational leadership teams. Anthony Faustini is now VP of global accounts; David Boyle is VP of sales for the Americas; Mercer Rowe is VP of global channels and alliances; and Edison Peres is strategic go-to-market advisor.
Amur Lakshminarayanan joined digital infrastructure provider Tata Communications as managing director and group CEO – Designate.
Hyperconverged Kubernetes provider Robin.io added former Cisco executive Simone Sassoli to its leadership team where she will serve as chief customer officer.
Collibra appointed Alison Davis to its board of directors where she will serve as audit chair.
The Small Cell Forum announced Prabhakar Chitrapu as its new chair. Chitrapu previously led AT&T’s Converged Access and Device Technology organization.
Betsey Nelson, who previously served as EVP and CFO of software company Macromedia, joined Noodle.ai’s board of directors.
Artificial intelligence provider PROS welcomed John Allessio as its new chief customer officer. Prior to joining PROS, Allessio held global leadership roles at Red Hat and IBM.
MariaDB expanded its leadership bench and cloud team with the addition of ex-Salesforce principal architect Sameer Tiwari as its CTO of cloud infrastructure. In his new role, Tiwari will be responsible for driving the architecture and differentiation of MariaDB’s cloud services.
Endpoint resilience provider Absolute announced two new appointments to the company’s executive leadership team: William Morris joins as EVP of engineering and Ameer Karim joined as EVP of product management.
Amy O’Connor, former chief data and information officer at Cloudera, was named to that position at Syncsort.
SignalWire welcomed David Duffett as its worldwide community advocate. In his new role, Duffett will be responsible for guiding developers utilizing SignalWire technology through the transition to cloud-based services.
Cohesity appointed former NetApp and Brocade executive Bill Lipsin as VP of global channel sales. Lipsin will be responsible for the company’s go-to-market strategy, channel programs, enablement, and distribution channels.
Edge cloud platform provider Fastly announced former Lyft Chief Information Security Officer Mike Johnson to that same position.
Former Evident.io and Skyhigh Networks CFO Danielle Murcray joined AttackIQ’s executive team as CFO.
BlackBerry promoted John McClurg to chief information security officer and Christopher Hummel to CIO.
Deepak Patil, one of the founding members of Microsoft Azure, was appointed to lead Dell Technologies’ cloud business and serve as SVP of Dell Technologies cloud platforms and solutions group.
Former VMware executive Peter Brennan returned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) as VP and GM of the West/Central Enterprise accounts business.
Western Digital announced that Steve Milligan will retire from his position as CEO. Milligan will continue to serve as CEO until the board appoints a successor.
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