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Intel welcomed former Cisco CMO Karen Walker to its leadership team as the company’s new SVP and CMO.

Walker, an industry veteran with more than 20 years of global technology industry marketing experience, will take over the reins of Intel’s global marketing group beginning October 23, where she will oversee the maintenance and strengthening of Intel’s brand. 

Prior to leading Cisco, Walker worked at Hewlett-Packard, where she held both business and consumer leadership positions.

Global interconnection and data center provider Equinix appointed Justin Dustzadeh as its new CTO. 

In addition to serving on the Equinix leadership team, the former head of global network & software platforms for Uber will captain a team responsible for developing a technology roadmap to bolster the company's platform strategy and innovation function.  

Dustzadeh previously served as Visa’s VP and head of global infrastructure network services, Huawei’s CTO and VP of technology strategy, and Ericsson’s VP and head of network architecture, IP and broadband technology.

Pittsburgh-based IT, cloud, and database administration provider, RDX announced the appointment of three new additions to its executive leadership team: CEO Mark Clayman, President and COO Gina Murphy, and CFO Art Green.

Former EVP of global sales of Ceridian, Tim Battis joined Kofax as VP of global sales. 

Instana welcomed Laurent Séraphin to its executive leadership team as CMO.

Intent-based networking provider Apstra added two new players to its leadership team. Herb Schneider was named VP of engineering and will oversee all engineering efforts for the company, along with Dave Butler who will serve as  Apstra’s VP of business development.

Celerium named Tommy McDowell as VP of strategy for its Cyber Defense Network solution. McDowell previously served as VP of intelligence for the Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC). 

Mike Skurla was appointed the director of product strategy for BitBox USA.

Retired president of AT&T technology operations and long-time AT&T senior executive Bill Hogg joined public cloud-based WAN service provider Teridion’s board of directors. 

Former SVP of people and culture at Cloud Technology Partners (CTP), a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, Holly Cafiero was named chief human resources officer at Druva. 

Enterprise cloud computing service provider Nutanix welcomed Christian Alvarez as VP of Americas. Alvarez joins Nutanix after having previously served as the worldwide head of channels and distribution at Juniper Networks. 

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) announced David Stehlin as the organization's new CEO. Stehlin, who most recently served as the GM of lifecycle service assurance at Spirent, replaces Wes Johnston who joined TIA as its CEO in June 2017.

Anand Krishnamurthy was promoted to president and COO of virtualized mobile network provider Affirmed Networks. 

North Carolina-based CloudJumper appointed Frank Picarello as COO for the software and services company in the cloud workspace and relational database service enablement markets. 

Stackery welcomed Tim Zonca, former SVP of worldwide marketing at Pupper, as its new CEO. 

5G and IoT device-to-cloud provider Inseego named Dan Picker as CTO for mobile & IoT solutions.

Tintri by DDN expanded its executive leadership team with the additions of Anand Ghatnekar as VP of engineering and Mario Blandini as CMO and chief evangelist. 

Ranplan Group AB appointed Jon Ullmark to a newly created CSO position on the senior management team.

Hyperconverged Kubernetes service provider Robin.io announced Jef Graham as its new CEO. Graham previously served as EVP at Juniper and 3Com Corporation, as well as two decades as CEO for privately held start-ups, RGB Networks and Peribit Networks. He also currently serves on the Board of Directors of NetGear.

San Francisco-based cloud-native visibility and security company Sysdig appointed Janet Matsuda, former SVP of product marketing at Palo Alto Networks, as CMO. 

Source Scale Computing promoted co-founder Scott Loughmiller to chief product officer after serving as the company’s VP of engineering since 2007. 

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) unanimously elected Tiago Rodrigues to the role of CEO at the wireless industry group. Tiago Rodrigues replaces CEO Shrikant Shenwai, a WBA founder who will continue working closely with WBA and the wireless industry.

Aporeto announced two executive appointments: Sunil Sampat joined Aporeto as chief revenue officer and Gregg Holzrichter as CMO.

Jai Menon, who previously served as VP of research at Dell and CTO at IBM, joined Fungible as chief scientist. 

Open Systems welcomed Jeff Brown as CEO replacing Martin Bosshardt who served as CEO of the network and security as-a-service provider for 17 years.

Dell Technologies’ vice chairman Jeff Clarke stepped down from his position and passed the torch of the company’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) to 21-year Dell EMC veteran Jeff Boudreau who will serve as the new president of Dell Technologies’ ISG.

Open19 appointed Zachary Smith, CEO and co-founder of Packet, to the role of president at the Open19 Foundation. The organization also as announced its 2019-2020 board members: Cole Crawford, Zaid Ali Kahn, Jim Kuo, and Adam Tarnowski.

Xu Zhijun (Eric Xu) assumed the position of rotating and acting chairman of Huawei in accordance with the company’s rotating chairman system.