People on the Move: Comcast, Cisco, NICE, TPx, Barracuda, More
This month's edition of Channel People on the Move also includes hires and promotions at Telarus, Proofpoint, IntelePeer, Nitel and more.
![NICE's Ashley Bartram NICE's Ashley Bartram](https://eu-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/blt10e444bce2d36aa8/blt485127f25d2fe3b5/65674de7f2f046040a6436b5/NICE_Ashley_Bartram_feature.jpg?width=700&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale)
The channel was stunned to learn about the restructuring at Comcast Business + Masergy, which is resulting in the retirement of longtime channel leader Craig Schlagbaum at the end of the year.
Not that we expect him to be fully retired. We'll keep you posted on where he might land in 2024.
Read about the shake-up at Comcast Business and why partners thought Schlagbaum brought consistency to the cableco's channel in his 13-year reign.
Cisco landed a big fish to lead its global partner ecosystem.
Rodney Clark, who recently led Microsoft's channel, is the new head of global partner sales at the IT giant. He takes over for Oliver Tuszik, who became president of EMEA for the company.
Find out more about Clark's plans for the Cisco channel.
It was a huge month for the human resources department at Telarus, the technology solutions brokerage, processing all sorts of promotions and new hires.
The Telarus partners now in new positions are, clockwise from top left: Lela Yazbeck, VP of learning and development; Nancy Estrada, lead escalations specialist in partner experience; Robert Worthen, enterprise solutions specialist; Sarah Ujifusa, senior enterprise solutions specialist; Jay Lovell, partner experience team lead; Travis Horton, VP of partner advocacy; Ashley Spencer, senior manager, telecom pricing; and Danielle Ostler, escalations specialist in partner experience.
You probably know him from his days at Datto, where he was VP of North America sales.
Now, Patrick O'Donnell is the new SVP of worldwide MSP sales at security giant Barracuda. He brings firsthand experience in growing an MSP-focused business.
Other past employers include IBM and GE Digital.
Learn more about O'Donnell's new gig.
Meet Tim Williams, the regional partner and MSP manager at Coro, the cybersecurity company.
Zayo, GTT and Frontier are some of his previous employers.
Two big personnel moves of note at NICE, the customer experience software vendor.
That's Ashley Bartram on the left. She's a new senior partner executive making the move from Sangoma. You might also recognize her from Lumen or Nextiva.
On the right, that's Devan Adler, who carries the title of director of partner acceleration. It's a promotion for Adler, who previously was senior partner executive.
Based in Dallas, John Boggan is a new regional channel director at DataBank, the data center solutions provider.
He recently held a similar role at Evolve IP, and spent more than five years before that at Masergy, where he also was a channel director.
Blancco Technology Group, which provides data erasure and mobile life cycle services, named Jim Elder VP of global pathways. In this role, he will lead Blancco's global partner ecosystem and help pursue the company's goal of doubling its enterprise business by 2025.
Elder, who brings experience from NetApp, HPE and more, will be tasked with building and expanding Blancco's relationships with OEMs, GSIs, solution providers and tech alliance partners.
Say hello to these two members of team TPx. the managed IT services and UCaaS provider.
On the right, that's Joe Randazzo, channel sales manager based in Connecticut. He has a slew of industry experience from Verizon, Headsets.com and Nextiva, to name a few.
That's Nick DuPree on the left, a regional channel manager based in Atlanta. He brings experience from Windstream, Nextiva and others.
Ramiro Ramirez is back at Convergia, the distributor of connectivity solutions, after spending a year-and-a-half at Avant Communications.
He previously did a four-and-a-half year stint at Convergia, where he held the title of senior channel manager. He returns as a channel director, based in Miami.
The board of directors at BlueMantis, the MSP formerly known as GreenPages, appointed Josh Dinneen the company's new CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2024. He succeeds Ron Dupler, who will become chairman of the board and serve the company in an advisory role.
Dinneen is a 25-year industry veteran who joined the company in 2018 as president of strategic services. That was via BlueMantis' acquisition of Norwell Technology Group, which Dinneen founded.
Content Guru, the provider of cloud contact center and customer experience technology, named Matt McKernan senior VP of sales for the Americas.
You might know him best from his work helping to scale Verint, inContact and NICE. At NICE CXOne, he was an SVP leading the enterprise and public sector teams.
Congrats to Tom Holland, the new chief revenue officer at ControlUp, which offers digital employee experience management. The company's first-ever CRO brings extensive enterprise channel experience to the job.
Holland comes from Citrix where he was SVP, Americas sales and services. His long career at Citrix started in 2006 via an acquisition.
Jay Littleford started a new role as director of channel sales at Uniphore, the enterprise AI platform.
If you crossed paths with him before, it was probably at Genesys, Telarus or Windstream.
SecurityBridge, the platform that identifies SAP vulnerabilities and risks, promoted Elizabeth Murphy (pictured) to VP of global sales, alliances and channels.
Murphy joined SecurityBridge in 2017 as VP of sales and marketing, representing New York City. Before SecurityBridge, she was VP of global sales and business development at Cyberlytic.
SecurityBridge named four other appointments, including:
Karl Batchelor, director of sales, U.S., East
Bill Oliver, director of technical services, Americas
Amber Parsons, director of business development
Barry Snow, sales engineer
Superops.ai, which provides a unified PSA and RMM platform for MSPs, is growing quickly and adding to its team.
Pictured is Nancy Henriquez, who many know as an MSP founder, running SabinoCompTech as CEO. Her title is head of community.
Also new to the team are:
Johnson Tran, U.S. sales manager
Ryan McGill, U.S. sales engineer manager
Adam Nelson, director of events
Tonaquint, the data center solutions provider that serves emerging markets, named Jordan Gray its new VP of channel sales and alliances. He'll be responsible for channel sales strategy and initiatives.
Gray has 20 years of sales, account management and leadership experience. Before Tonaquint, he was national director of channel and channel leader for FiberLight.
Gray is also an XO Communications and Cbeyond alum.
Kevin Johnson is a new managing partner and vCISO with Procure IT, which formed from the merger of four tech services companies to create a platform for IT procurement, spend, performance and risk management.
Johnson has extensive experience in tech, including roles as CTO, CISO and VP of information security.
Illumio, which bills itself as a zero-trust segmentation company, hired Todd Palmer as senior VP of global partner sales and alliances. The company has been expanding its product offerings for diverse market segments and wants to build and scale a "robust" partner network.
You might know Palmer from Palo Alto Networks, Cohesity or NetApp. His last job was SVP of global partner sales at Tanium.
LogicalisUS hired Jessica Soqui as senior vice president of services.
But the provider of private network services didn't have to look far. Soqui has been with the company for 13 years. This is a promotion from VP of professional services.
GuardDog AI has a new channel leader. It's Will Cox, who most recently was managing partner and tech advisor at Opex Technologies. That followed a 19-year run at Masergy.
GuardDog is a cybersecurity service that uses AI to automatically detect cyber threats.
Bob Faber continues a 40-year career in the industry, now as channel leader at Electric Red, the IT service and network security provider.
Faber spent more than 11 years at Intelisys before this job, most recently as a solutions engineer. He also was director of channel sales at Terrapin Solutions.
Barb Huelskamp just took the role of SVP of global channels and alliances with Qualys, the cloud security and compliance services provider.
She most recently held a similar role with Alteryx, but also brings experience from AWS, Jabra, Polycom and more in her career.
Contact-center-as-a-service giant Five9 turned to Andy Dignan as its new chief operating officer.
It's a promotion for the five-year company vet who has also called CDW and Cisco home.
Securonix, the security provider known for threat detection, investigation and response, turned to Mark Stevens to fill the role of VP of strategic alliances.
Stevens has 20 years of experience, most recently as Ivanti's global SVP of strategic alliances and OEM. He also helped to build Lumension Security's OEM partner program.
Read more about Stevens' new gig.
Jennifer Kula is the new VP of strategic alliances at Icertis, the provider of contract life-cycle management (CLM) services.
Kula spent the last four years at OneStream Software, where she held a similar title. She's also a veteran of Wasabi Technologies, Oracle and more.
You probably know the new chief revenue officer at MSP Techmedics, David DeCamillis, from his long career in sales and marketing in the managed services industry.
Before Techmedics, he was SVP of sales and marketing at Applied Tech, an MSP that merged with Platte River Networks last year.
Three years after joining the team at Scality, the data storage software provider, Eric LeBlanc has been promoted to VP of worldwide channel sales and general manager of ARTESCA, the company's secure S3 object storage software for immutable backups.
LeBlanc's responsibility now extends beyond EMEA and Asia Pacific into a global role driving channel sales across all regions, including the Americas.
Mark Svitak is the new director of strategic partnerships at Nitel, the next-gen tech services provider.
Svitak held numerous roles in Lumen/CenturyLink's channel over the past 12 years.
Veritas, the secure multicloud data management provider, named Jonny Crebbin UK&I channel and alliances director. His job is to maximize value through Veritas' channel partnerships and to accelerate growth across the U.K. and Ireland.
Crebbin's 25 years of experience includes stints at EMC, NetApp, HPE, and most recently, Dell.
Sumit Dhawan is the new CEO at Proofpoint, the cybersecurity and compliance company.
Dhawan most recently was president at VMware, responsible for driving more than $13 billion of revenue and leading the company's worldwide sales, customer success and experience, marketing and more.
Dani Pickens just got promoted at Xcitium, the endpoint security provider. Her title is RVP, channel sales and programs for North America, in the Central and West, as well as global/APAC.
You probably know her from career stops at Dialpad, Windstream, Zoom, RingCentral and more.
Just days after learning of her exit from Google Cloud, we found out that Bronwyn Hastings had landed at UiPath, the developer of robotic process automation software.
Hastings was VP of ISV ecosystem and channels for the hyperscaler before leaving her role after two-and-a-half years.
At UiPath, she will be SVP of partner and ecosystems. Read more about her move.
Chris Brennan is brand-new to IntelePeer, the customer communications automation platform. He is senior director of national channel strategy for the company.
Brennan's lengthy experience includes work at Avant, Talkdesk and Mitel.
Chris Brennan is brand-new to IntelePeer, the customer communications automation platform. He is senior director of national channel strategy for the company.
Brennan's lengthy experience includes work at Avant, Talkdesk and Mitel.
We're featuring roughly 45 more channelites (a new word) in this month's edition of Channel People on the Move.
One of the biggest was Rodney Clark, who has made a name for himself during a long career in tech, but most recently as channel leader at Microsoft. He's now stepping into a similar role at Cisco.
And the traditional cable channel was rocked to the core when Comcast Business announced a major restructuring that will lead to the retirement of Craig Schlagbaum, longtime channel leader there, at the end of the year.
As always, you don't have to wait for this slideshow to come around each month. We feature some People on the Move almost as they happen on this page.
If you missed last month's edition featuring AT&T, Dell, AireSpring and more, it's here.
About the Author(s)
You May Also Like