Channel Futures' People Mover: Carbonite, Ex-Cisco Channel Boss, More
New hires and promotions at F5 Networks, Sungard AS, Axcient and Forcepoint also are featured here.
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Just about everyone in this audience knows Wendy Bahr for her long run at Cisco, with part of that as channel chief. Now she’s stepping into a new adventure.
Rubrik, the cloud management company, hired Bahr as its first commercial officer. She’ll keep tabs on the company’s global system integrators, MSPs, hardware and software alliances, and professional services teams.
Learn much more about Bahr’s move.
In what came as a surprise to many, 20-year Citrix veteran Craig Stilwell, who served as channel chief, left for Carbonite to take a job as the cloud backup provider’s chief revenue officer.
In an interim role, Diane Fanelli will take charge of Citrix’s channel as Stilwell moves on. Fanelli just joined the company in April after a 25-year run at SAP.
Get the full scoop on what spurred Stilwell to make the move.
Many in the channel will know Mike Robinson from his role as CEO at Broadview Networks before Windstream acquired it.
Now Robinson is the boss at Sungard Availability Services, which provides data center and disaster recovery services. Sungard AS filed for bankruptcy this year, emerging from chapter 11 in less than 24 hours.
Robinson replaces Andrew Stern, who was CEO for nine years.
Read about what made Robinson join Sungard AS during a tumultuous time.
CompTIA, the industry trade association named Cinnamon Rogers executive VP for public advocacy. She’s tasked with leading the association’s expanding federal, state and international advocacy efforts.
She has more than 20 years of experience in government affairs with associations and businesses in tech and telecom, most recently as VP of government affairs at the Telecommunications Industry Association.
F5 Networks, which bills itself as a secure application delivery provider, made a couple of key hires.
That’s Mika Yamamoto on the left. She takes on the newly created role of executive VP and chief marketing & customer experience officer. She’s tasked with leading the company’s marketing strategies across segments, channels and geographies. She comes to F5 from Marketo, and has stints at SAP, Microsoft and more.
Also new at F5 is Geng Lin, executive VP and CTO. His focus, the company said, will be on boosting F5’s next-generation technological capabilities through organic and inorganic innovation, including advanced research initiatives and strategic partnerships.
Lin joins the team from J.P. Morgan Chase.
Cybersecurity provider Forcepoint named John Sorensen VP of global sales strategy and execution. He’ll lead a new department to “help Forcepoint scale and achieve its growth targets through an enterprise-class customer experience,” the company said.
Sorensen’s been doing this a while. He has 35 years of experience, much of that at Symantec where he held several executive-level roles.
Angus Robertson is the new chief revenue officer at Axcient, the backup and disaster recovery software provider. He’s in charge of the company’s recently merged sales and marketing division.
“The unification will optimize sales and marketing to drive aligned execution, a seamless buyer’s journey, and closely work with the product organization to improve partner experience,” Robertson said.
It’s a promotion for Robertson, who previously was chief marketing officer at Axcient.
Colotraq‘s Dany Bouchedid is now CEO of a second company.
Bouchedid has been serving on the Aluf Holdings board since the publicly traded holding company bought Colotraq a few months ago. Aluf decided he should be chief executive of its company as well.
Colotraq is a data-center infrastructure master agency.
Learn more about Aluf’s acquisition of Colotraq.
Lastline, a provider of AI-powered network security, tapped Claire Trimble as its chief marketing officer.
“Claire’s diverse background and proven success leading early stage startup and large enterprise marketing teams at both networking and cybersecurity companies is the background and expertise Lastline requires for our explosive growth,” said Lastline CEO, John DiLullo.
Claire has 25 years of experience. She’s led marketing operations at Cisco, Oracle and Fortinet, to name a few.
Bitglass, which is making a name for itself as a cloud access security broker (CASB), hired Benjamin Rice (left) as its new VP of worldwide business development. Rice has held senior management positions at Blue Coat and a number of startups.
That’s John Peppler, VP of worldwide channels, on the right. Also new to the company, Peppler joins the Bitglass team from Menlo Security. He has 20 years of channel experience.
Nasuni hired David Grant as its new chief marketing officer. It’s a key hire, the company says, as the demand for global cloud file services increases. Nansuni recently opened a brand-new office and is in the midst of what it calls “record-breaking” business growth.
Grant has 20 years of experience, most recently at Veeam. His background also includes a position at VMware.
ServerCentral Turing Group named Thomas Johnson its new chief information security officer. The move comes as “increased financial, legal, regulatory and operational risks facing companies as they undergo digital transformation” become more complicated.
Johnson is a 25-year veteran of the industry who understands compliance and security in a number of verticals.
ServerCentral Turing Group named Thomas Johnson its new chief information security officer. The move comes as “increased financial, legal, regulatory and operational risks facing companies as they undergo digital transformation” become more complicated.
Johnson is a 25-year veteran of the industry who understands compliance and security in a number of verticals.
While many of you take summer vacations or sit at your desk imagining sitting on beach somewhere, some of your friends and colleagues are taking the next steps in their technology careers.
This edition of the Channel Futures People Mover highlights recent hires and promotions, everyone from CEOs to CEOs, channel marketers to cloud experts, who are making important decisions that impact companies doing business in the channel — as well as their partners.
To wit: News broke just last week that a longtime channel fixture at Citrix was jumping ship for a new adventure at Carbonite. And the biggest name of the bunch is a former Cisco channel leader taking up residence at a cloud storage and backup provider.
Those are just two of the big names featured in our slideshow above that highlights movers and shakers at some of the biggest IT vendors, MSPs and other tech companies in the channel. We also have personnel updates from F5 Networks, Sungard AS, Axcient, Forcepoint and more. We bet you know a bunch of them.
Here’s our last roundup in case you missed it.
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