Here are some of the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes that happened in August. 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.
Synchronoss CEO Resigns Amid Personal Misconduct AllegationsGlenn Lurie, a longtime telecommunications executive, resigned as CEO of Synchronoss amid allegations of personal misconduct.
The cloud-based messaging and IoT vendor declined to share more details about the allegations, but the abrupt departure followed an investigation by the company’s board. The company appointed Jeff Miller, its chief commercial officer, as interim CEO and said it will begin a formal search for a permanent replacement.
Lurie joined Synchronoss less than three years ago after the company was beset with accounting fraud allegations that resulted in a temporary suspension of the company’s public listing on the U.S. stock market.
Nutanix CEO Talks Remote First Grade, Why He’s LeavingNutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey stepped down from the company he co-founded in 2009. In a surprise move ahead of Nutanix’s earnings call last month, Pandey announced that he will stay on until the board of directors selects his successor.
“Being at home for the last six months, and thinking hard about what really matters, I need to commit to my family for at least the next year while we are still in this lockdown,” he told SDxCentral.
While all of this may very well be true, Zeus Kerravala, principal analyst at ZK Research says Nutanix needs a new strategy and that won’t happen without change at the top.
Pandey, for his part, admitted that while the COVID-19 pandemic put things in perspective, he had been thinking about stepping down for a while.
Dell Plans Job Cuts, VMware May Reduce Remote PayDell Technologies cut jobs as a cost-saving measure, according to a Bloomberg report.
Citing a person familiar with the situation, Bloomberg reported that COO Jeff Clarke told staff during a quarterly meeting that workforce reductions won’t be limited to a particular team or division within the company.
“We’re also evaluating our business to make sure we have the right number of team members in the right roles and in areas where customers need us most,” a Dell spokesperson said in an email to SDxCentral. “And, we’re addressing our cost structure to make sure we’re as competitive as we should be now and for future opportunities. While we do this type of organizational review regularly, and while it always results in some job loss or restructuring, we recognize that there is nothing routine about today’s environment.”
Other Movers and ShakersIntel promoted Barbara Whye, chief diversity and inclusion officer and VP of social impact and human resources, to corporate VP. The chip manufacturer also named Safroadu Yeboah-Amankwah as its new SVP and chief strategy officer.
F5 added Elizabeth Buse, former CEO of Monitise, to its board of directors.
VMware Carbon Black head of cybersecurity strategy Tom Kellermann was selected by the U.S. Secret Service U.S. Cyber Investigations Advisory Board (CIAB) to serve as a board member.
Michael Kelley was named GrammaTech's new CFO.
David Zwick joined Flexera as its new CFO, taking the reins from retiring CFO Joe Freda.
Deutsche Telekom Europe added former Proximus CEO Dominique Leroya to its board. She succeeds Srini Gopalan, who will assume responsibility for Deutsche Telekom's Germany segment
S2W Media hired former Fractional COO Julie Strong as its new CEO.
McAfee welcomed former Microsoft executive Venkat Bhamidipati as EVP and CFO.
Colocation and hybrid infrastructure provider INAP announced the appointment of Joe Corvaia as its new EVP and chief revenue officer.
Ekinops hired Vincent Munière to serve as its new CTO and VP of research and development.
Former Tableau CMO Elissa Fink was named to Qumulo’s board of directors.
Enterprise big compute provider Rescale added two names to its executive lineup with the appointments of Edward Hsu as the company's first VP of product and Chris Choi as the company's first VP of finance.
Cybersecurity firm Criticalstart promoted its VP of product marketing, Carrie Kelly, to serve as the company's new CMO.
LiveView Technologies appointed Dave Norton as its new CRO.
Symend announced Vivian Farris as its new chief people officer.
Cloud-native data analytics and security company Devo Technology welcomed Marc van Zadelhoff as its new CEO.
Viktor Farcic, who previously served as product manager at Cloudbees, joined Codefresh as its new principal DevOps architect. Additionally, the company announced three new hires with Vidhya Vijayakumar as head of customers; Sasha Shapirov as VP of R&D; and Ran Zaksh as VP of product.
Fusion Connect named Michael Miller as its new CIO.
Axio appointed Eric Cardwell as the company’s director of cyber risk engineering.
Twilio welcomed Lybra Clemons as its first chief diversity, inclusion, and belonging officer.
Rich Halbert was named WorkJam's new CSO. Halbert previously held various product group, engineering, and business development roles at Microsoft.
Exclusive Networks hired Jesper Trolle as CEO.
David Bernhardt joined SentinelOne as its new CFO.
Nobl9 added Alex Hidalgo to its internal site reliability engineering team where he will spearhead the development and launch of the Nobl9 software reliability platform.
Data Center Systems announced Scott Mitchell as its new VP of sales and marketing. Mitchell has previously held senior-level executive leadership positions at Verizon, Ericsson, and Rackspace.
Krishna Tammana was named Talend's new CTO. Tamman most recently served as VP of engineering at Splunk.
SoftIron welcomed Craig Chadwell as its new VP of product.
Former WRC-19 ambassador Grace Koh joined Nokia's government relations office as VP of legislative affairs.
Dish Network announced the addition of FreedomPop founder Stephen Stokols to its executive leadership team where he will serve as EVP of Boost Mobile.
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