Channel People on the Move: AT&T, Google Cloud, Intelisys, HPE, Zoom, More
Also, moves at NetApp, Citrix, Intermedia, Nutanix, Ooma and more.
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Upstack, which has been gobbling up agencies like crazy this year, hired Danielle DeCosta as vice president of supplier development.
She spent two years at Pax8 and 13 at Intelisys before making this move.
Some moving and shaking at Microsoft, where former AWS exec Charlie Bell (right) joined the team — sort of. He’s an executive VP of a new division focused on security, but some legal issues are still playing out between the competitors.
Meantime, Greg Nelson (left), who had been overseeing Microsoft’s ISV partners, announced on LinkedIn that he was leaving after 26 years.
LogMeIn found its man in Patrick McCue, the company’s new global channel chief. McCue is tasked with leading LogMeIn’s growth strategy for channel sales and to foster relationships with key partners.
He has 15 years of channel leadership experience, joining LogMeIn from Okta, where he was senior VP of worldwide partnerships.
No doubt you want to learn more.
There are some new faces at contact center provider LiveVox as it continues to build out its channel.
They are, clockwise from right: Jo Hauser, senior manager, channel marketing programs, who spent 19 years at CenturyLink and most recently was on the Nextiva channel marketing team; Melissa McPhun, channel account manager, West, whose career has included stops at Five9 and Nice inContact; Rich Bleck, channel account manager, Midwest, a BullsEye Telecom alum whose most recent job was at Veracity Networks; and Simms Brooks, channel account manager, Southeast, coming to the company after 10 years as sales and channel alliances program manager at Synoptek.
Michelle Keifer is the new lead channel marketing manager on AT&T‘s channel team.
Keifer will be in charge of strategic initiatives, business development and go-to-market strategy within AT&T’s service distributor (master agent) community to expand distribution.
It’s a promotion for the 14-year veteran of the carrier.
Telesystem created a new product development and design department, leading to some personnel shifts within the company.
Seth Gibbs (bottom left) will lead the group as director. He previously led Telesystem’s sales department. 20-year channel veteran Ken Mercer (top left) will lead the company’s team of national channel managers as manager of channel strategy. And Brian Buchman, also a 20-year channel vet, will lead the regional channel management team as manager of channel sales.
Learn more about the reshuffling at Telesystem.
Craig Patterson is the new channel chief at cloud-based WAN provider Aryaka. You might know him from his days at CenturyLink/Lumen.
Patterson will be in charge of Aryaka’s channel partner program and its agent, reseller and distributor partners.
Former channel chief Olen Scott moved on to becom CRO at Stored Energy Systems.
Learn more about Patterson’s new gig.
Justin Windsor is the new channel chief at Splashtop, which provides remote access and support solutions.
The company expects the appointment will do wonders for its relationships with VARs, MSPs and more.
Windsor comes to Splashtop from Zadara, where he was channel manager.
After six years at TBI, Corey Cohen is jumping to Intermedia as senior director of global channel marketing.
Cohen’s most recent title at TBI was VP of partner experience. She says she’s excited about her move because of the strong opportunity with Intermedia’s cloud communications portfolio.
Learn more about Cohen’s move.
That’s Aaron Lee, Appsmart‘s new senior cloud infrastructure specialist. His previous employers include Cloud Propeller and WOW Business.
SecurID, the identity platform and an RSA business, named Jim Taylor chief product officer.
Before SecurID, Taylor was head of product at Symantec/Broadcom. He also has experience at CA, Oracle, NexIQ and Novell.
Do you know Brian Cheek? He’s the new cloud solutions consultant for the Southeast at RapidScale, a Cox Business company. He covers Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.
Cheek previously worked for Veeam Software. RapidScale says he has extensive experience selling cloud and on-premises backup and disaster recovery services, along with data migration and SaaS backup for Microsoft 365.
That there is Jason Kees, new chief information security officer at Ping Identity. He will lead Ping’s security initiatives that support new services, while ensuring the security, safety and reliability of the company’s IT infrastructure.
He most recently was VP and CISO at Groupon.
Cary Bush is Ooma‘s new channel sales manager covering the central U.S.
Bush most recently worked for AirCall, the cloud-based call center and phone system provider. He led the effort there to establish the company’s first channel program in North America.
You might also know Bush from Avaya.
Find out more about what he’ll up to at Ooma.
Adam Tarbox takes over as VP of EMEA channel sales at Nutanix, the hybrid multicloud company.
It’s a promotion for Tarbox, which the company says signifies its continuing investment in the channel “as it looks to its next level of growth …”
Matthew Deacon Ladd Thomas is a new channel manager at Nextiva. You might know him from various positions at Windstream, Cisco and AT&T.
Fidelma Russo is a VMware vet whose new gig is chief technology officer for HPE. She will be responsible for HPE’s innovation agenda and technology road map.
Russo has 30 years of experience and leadership in cloud services, IT business operation, software and infrastructure.
Learn more about Russo’s new role.
MSP360, the provider of backup and IT management solutions for MSPs and IT departments, named Amit Kumar its VP of operations.
He comes to MSP360 from Constant Contact.
MSP Navigator, the IT community platform, has two new directors.
One is David Welling (right), who brings 25 years of experience to the table. He founded ITbetweeners last year, a community for IT pros supporting MSPs.
The other is Scott Millar, founder of sales company IT Rockstars. He has extensive experience in IT marketing.
MemVerge, which provides what it calls “big memory” software, hired Bernie Wu as VP of business development. He will lead the company’s global alliance, software partnerships and industry ecosystem efforts.
Trend Micro is one of Wu’s key previous employers.
Involta, the national IT service provider and consulting firm, made three moves.
Left to right: Mark Cooley, VP of security and compliance; David Humes II, director of product development; and Josh Holst, VP of cloud services.
Cooley has been with Involta for 10 years. Humes is a three-year veteran of the company and so is Holst.
Jamaal Savwoir is the new VP of partner experience at services distributor Intelisys.
One of the founders of the Xposure Inclusion and Diversity Council, Savwoir’s former employers include 8×8 and Star2Star.
AppViewX, a provider of machine identity management and application delivery automation, tapped Jason Bonds as its new chief revenue officer. He will oversee revenue generation, customer and partner oprations, and multichannel go-to-market strategies.
Bonds’ last job was CRO of Chainalysis, where AppViewX says he significantly grew that company’s annual recurring revenue.
Tim Maloney is the new director of the North American VAR team at Zoom. He is tasked with working closely with strategic partners, empowering them to drive success in key markets at scale.
Before Zoom, Maloney had jobs at Lifesize, Autodesk and Act On.
Nick Bannister is the new VP of the UK and Ireland business for distributor Arrow Electronics. He’s been with the company for 11 years.
Most recently, he was VP of strategic alliances, EMEA. Before joining arrow, he was a director at Sphinx CST, a company Arrow acquired in 2010.
BitTitan, which provides cloud migrations and managed services automation, named Paul Nguyen VP of product and engineering for Perspectum, the now-business unit that BitTitan acquired in June.
Nguyen is a co-founder of Perspectum.
Jon Giamatteo is BlackBerry‘s new cybersecurity business unit president.
Giamatteo is a McAfee and AVG Technologies alum. BlackBerry praised him for double-digit growth and margin expansion during his six years as McAfee’s president and CRO.
Learn more about Giamatteo’s new role at the security provider.
Mark Palomba replaces Bronwyn Hastings as Citrix channel chief. Hastings left for Google Cloud earlier this year.
Palmoba, who has been with Citrix for about a year, previously was with SAP’s financial services market unit. He also is a former CEO of Critical Path.
Get to know Palomba and the work he will do with partners.
That’s Natascha Lee, who started her new gig as senior director, global partner marketing, at Cloudera.
You probably know her from TIBCO Software, where she was director of global channel and partner marketing before making the move.
David Casillo is Congruity360‘s new chief revenue officer. The company provides SaaS governance software. He will be responsible for all revenue-generating processes, both direct and indirect.
Previous employes include HPE and Adobe.
Clint Sand jumped in as Corelight’s new SVP of product, meaning he will tackle all aspects of the Corelight product portfolio.
Sand most recently held executive product positions at Malwarebytes and NortonLifeLock.
Corelight sells an open network detection and response (NDR) platform.
CoreSite, the data center services provider, named William Lombardo director of channel sales, Mid-Atlantic.
You might know him from the four years he spent at WTG/AppSmart.
Cloud security vendor Cymulate named Andrew Barnett its chief strategy officer.
Barnett most recently was VP of strategic alliances and service integrations for Qualys.
Exertis, the U.K-based distributor, made a couple of key personnel moves.
Cath O’Neill (left) is the company’s new IT director, service operations. She will be responsible for the service desk, desktop services, infrastructure services and the implementation of ITIL standards across Exertis UK. Her most recent job was with the Odeon Cinema Group.
Getting promoted is Sam Williams, a 15-year Exertis veteran, to director of sales, B2B. The company says Williams has been instrumental in building high-performance teams across the business.
FireMon, which provides network security policy management (NPSM) solutions, bought DisruptOps, a SaaS-based cloud detection and response platform.
It also seemed like a good time to bring back Jody Brazil, one of the company’s original founders, as CEO of the combined company. He left FireMon four years, ago, founded DisruptOps, and now he’s back.
Get the full scoop on Brazil’s return, as well as this acquisition.
Google Cloud is switching things up with a reorganization of its technical management team. It’s now under the direction of CEO Thomas Kurian.
Brad Calder (left) is poised to take over product and engineering for the cloud unit. He’s a six-year vet of the company. Urs Hölzle takes the reins of technical infrastructure overall.
Get the full scoop on the changes.
Igel, the cloud workspace software provider, named Kris Hamner (left) chief people officer and Christiane Ohlgart as chief financial officer.
Hamner comes to Igel from JSR Corp. His other stops include HPE, Hitachi Global Storage and Astreya. Ohlgart was VP of finance at Fortinet before coming to Igel. There, she worked with the company’s sales and channel leaders to support the security company’s topline growth through the establishment of the “right” business models and channel programs.
Brian Hamel is the new executive VP of field operations at Veritas, the enterprise data protection vendor.
He’s a 30-year industry vet who’s had stints at IBM and Oracle.
Kit Colbert was promoted from chief technology officer for VMware Cloud, to CTO for the entire company.
The longtime VMware-er is tasked with driving technical strategy, research, innovation, advanced development, evangelism and SaaS transformation across VMware’s engineering organization.
Jill Arbet is the new head of marketing at Vyve Broadband, the Oklahoma-based provider of broadband services across the Southeast, Northwest and mid-South U.S.
The new senior VP will manage customer communications, acquisition, loyalty and marketing strategies, with a particular focus on high-speed data customer growth.
Her last job was VP of marketing for Suddenlink Communications, the cable company.
Jill Arbet is the new head of marketing at Vyve Broadband, the Oklahoma-based provider of broadband services across the Southeast, Northwest and mid-South U.S.
The new senior VP will manage customer communications, acquisition, loyalty and marketing strategies, with a particular focus on high-speed data customer growth.
Her last job was VP of marketing for Suddenlink Communications, the cable company.
The channel is a busy place, but there might not be anywhere busier than tech providers’ human resources departments. After all, September was another huge month for personnel moves. AT&T, Citrix, Google Cloud, Intelisys, LogMeIn, Microsoft and more all got in on the act.
This edition of Channel People on the Move runs the gamut in the IT and telecom channels. We have new hires and promotions at tech distributors, service distributors, big carriers, security providers and more.
Take, for instance, SD-WAN provider Aryaka, which named a new channel chief. Citrix did the same.
Intermedia hired a well-known marketer from TBI. Meantime, Telesystem, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Igel all made multiple new hires and/or promotions that we’ll show you.
So bear down, because we’ve got more than 50 personnel moves to show you in the slideshow above.
Don’t forget, you can check out our webpage specifically devoted to channel people on the move 24/7. From AT&T to Google Cloud, NetApp to Zoom, we’ve got it all.
Miss last month’s edition? If so, you missed moves at Lumen, Intelisys, Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft and more.
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