30 Notable IT Executive Moves: May 2022
ConnectWise, Blue.cloud, Microsoft, Salesforce, Google and Cisco were among the tech companies to make executive hires during the month.
A new ConnectWise chief information officer, a chief operating officer at Blue.cloud and a corporate vice president of industry, data and applications business development at Microsoft are among the major executive hires of May 2022.
Todd Hale, formerly of Next Generation Digital Solutions; Koray Ozcubukcu, formerly of Slalom; and Andrew Lindsay, formerly of HubSpot, are just some of the names featured on CRN’s May 2022 executive moves list.
Salesforce, Google and Cisco were among the other tech giants to make executive hires during the month as companies invest in resources for sales, technology and partners.
Those executives were Chandrika Shankarnarayan, formerly of Microsoft; Maya Kulycky, formerly of IBM; and Geoffrey Huang, formerly of Sift.
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Who changed jobs in May 2022?
The job changes come during a period dubbed the “Great Resignation” due to elevated rates of Americans quitting their jobs. The number of Americans quitting stayed flat in April, totaling 4.4 million quits, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The quits rate was to 2.9 percent.
What follows are 30 notable IT executive moves from May 2022.
Brian Roach
Brian Roach became CEO of Red River in May.
Roach joined the Claremont, N.H.-based company – No. 50 on CRN’s 2022 Solution Provider 500 – after more than six years with SAP, according to his LinkedIn.
He previously ran SAP North America’s regulated industries practice. In his role at SAP, Roach worked with federal, local and state government clients as well as customers in higher education, aerospace, defense, utilities, and health care.
Roach also worked at Juniper Networks for more than six years, according to his LinkedIn. He left in 2015 with the title of vice president of the North America federal business.
Matt Poirier
Matt Poirier joined Intel in May as senior vice president of corporate development, according to his Linkedin.
Poirier came to the Santa Clara, Calif.-based semiconductor maker after less than a year with Advanced Micro Devices, according to his LinkedIn. He left with the title of Senior Vice president, strategy and corporate development.
He came to AMD when the company bought Xilinx in February. He had been with Xilinx for about four years before the acquisition, according to his LinkedIn.
His resume includes more than three years with Morgan Stanley. He left the company in 2018 with the title of executive director of technology investment banking, according to his LinkedIn.
Andrew Lindsay
Microsoft hired Andrew Lindsay last month as its new corporate vice president of industry, data and applications business development, according to his LinkedIn.
In this role with the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant, Lindsay will lead a team “that focuses on products that enable digital transformation, from the intelligent data foundation to Power Platform to Dynamics 365, and solutions thoughtfully tailored to specific industries,” according to his LinkedIn.
Lindsay came to Microsoft from HubSpot, where he worked for more than four years, according to his LinkedIn. His most recent title with the company was senior vice president of corporate and business development.
In that role, he “led HubSpot‘s GTM and app partnership programs, strategic alliances, M&A, HubSpot for Startups and HubSpot Ventures” and “achieved successful strategic alliances with AWS, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Salesforce and others,” according to his LinkedIn. He grew the platform to more than 1,000 partners.
Before HubSpot, Lindsay worked for more than six years at Jawbone, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company in 2017 with the title of vice president of corporate development. In this role, he “led Jawbone’s strategic growth opportunities, including fundraising, acquisitions and corporate and business development partnerships and alliances.”
Margareta Sauger
Margareta Sauger joined Logically in May as vice president of sales and customer success, according to her LinkedIn.
She joined the Portland, Maine-based member of CRN’s 2022 Managed Service Provider 500 after more than two years with Elements Global Services, according to her LinkedIn. She left Elements with the title of chief commercial officer. In this role, she was “responsible for the acquisition, growth, and retention of clients and related revenue, overseeing 3 Regional Sales VPs (Americas, EMEA, and APAC) and 1 Global VP for Client Success and Onboarding, leading the overall team scaling from 5 to 45 within 12 months and generating immediate rapid growth.”
At Elements, Sauger also “focused on pipeline management, establishing a healthy pipeline with improved accuracy, developing a more effective process and gaining an advantage over competitors generating organizational growth” and “created an Alliance and Channel Strategy throughout all regions, establishing an overlay to the Direct Sales Teams,” according to her LinkedIn.
Before Elements, she worked for about 15 years at PCCW Global, according to her LinkedIn. She left the company in 2020 with the title of vice president of sales, Americas enterprise.
In this role, she “oversaw 12 direct reports including 2 Directors, 8 Sales-reps, and 2 Channel Agents, managing America‘s enterprise and agent channel new client acquisition and growth representing $100M in annual revenue,” according to her LinkedIn. She “Managed an annual revenue of $7.5M from 2005 – 2015, exceeding the billed revenue growth target of 20% YoY with an average margin of 30%+.”
Chandrika Shankarnarayan
Last month, Chandrika Shankarnarayan joined Salesforce as vice president of product for its Tableau subsidiary, according to her LinkedIn.
Before joining the San Francisco-based customer relationship management software provider, Shankarnarayan worked at Microsoft for about 20 years, according to her LinkedIn.
Her most recent role at Microsoft was principal group product manager, Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, according to her LinkedIn. In this role, Shankarnarayan led “the product team for Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, an industry-leading, customer data platform that enables brands to understand and drive personalization for their customers.”
Her team was “responsible for building the platform and the SaaS experiences that allows brands to unify, enrich, understand, and harness their B2C and B2B customer data from disparate on-prem, cloud, and event-based interactive data sources, harmonize the customer consent from those sources, and create powerful AI-driven prediction, segmentation and measurement that can be activated across Microsoft and external systems of action including marketing and advertising platforms, commerce and others,” according to her LinkedIn.
Kartik Vishwanath
Kartik Vishwanath joined HubSpot in May as vice president of engineering for platform infrastructure, according to his LinkedIn.
He posted on LinkedIn that in this role, he hopes “to contribute to the amazing work being done by the platform infrastructure organization in helping product teams deliver a reliable and performant product experience for HubSpot customers.”
Vishwanath joined the Cambridge, Mass.-based customer relationship management platform provider after about two years with Block, according to his LinkedIn. He left Block with the title of head of engineering, a role in which he led “platform Extensibility, Security and Partner integrations for Square‘s Developer platform.”
In this role, his teams built “capabilities that make our platform secure and extensible” and “common services for our public APIs that handle millions of requests a day from Square‘s external developer community,” according to his LinkedIn.
Before Block, Vishwanath worked at Amazon for more than four years, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company in 2020 with the title of engineering leader at AWS Lambda, which offers customers a serverless way to create applications.
Gaurav Mathur
Gaurav Mathur is Deloitte’s new vice president of business solution architecture, according to his LinkedIn
Mathur joined the London-based consultancy after about 18 years with Publicis Sapient, according to his LinkedIn.
He left Publicis Sapient with the title of director of technology, according to his LinkedIn. He has “strong data analytics/business analysis experience in leading Investment Banks in London and US” and “specialization in Investment Banking domain and technologies like AWS, big data analytics/data platforms, databases, large scale solutions design.”
Kip Amedeo
Kip Amedeo joined Oracle in May as senior vice president of global sales, according to his LinkedIn.
Amedeo came to the Austin, Texas-based data and cloud services company after more than two years with Honeywell, according to his LinkedIn. He left Honeywell with the title of senior vice president of global sales.
He previously worked at Quorum Software for more than three years, according to his LinkedIn. Amedeo left the company in 2020 with the title of senior vice president of sales. In this role, he was “responsible for direct sales, inside sales, alliances, channels and business development.”
Maya Kulycky
Google hired Maya Kulycky in May as research vice president of operations and strategy, according to her LinkedIn.
She came to the Mountain View, Calif.-based tech giant after more than six years with IBM, according to her LinkedIn. She left IBM with the title of chief of staff and research advocacy at IBM Research.
Her resume includes more than a year as head of East Africa for ABN, according to her LinkedIn. In this role, she “was responsible for driving the overall strategy, commercial revenue, and operations of ABN in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Mauritius” and “drove the business development and operation of ABN’s group of brands, including CNBC Africa and Forbes Africa, in East Africa.”
Geoffrey Huang
Geoffrey Huang joined Cisco in May as vice president of product and solutions marketing, according to his LinkedIn.
Huang came to the San Jose, Calif.-based tech giant after about four years with Sift, according to his LinkedIn. He left Sift with the title of senior vice president of product, a role which included “product Management, Design, and Product Marketing.”
His resume includes more than a year at RingCentral. He left the company in 2018 with the title of vice president of product marketing, according to his LinkedIn.
For more than two years, Huang worked at VMware, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company in 2017 with the title of senior director of product marketing of the NSX network virtualization and security platform. In this role, he “scaled “micro-segmentation” across VMware marketing and sales (1000+ reps) with new sales playbook and 1-day field enablement program, up-leveling sales conversations and resulting in 3x product pipeline vs. untrained reps.”
Justin Douglas
Last month, Justin Douglas returned to Palo Alto Networks, taking on the role of vice president of solutions consulting for secure access service edge (SASE) and zero trust, according to his LinkedIn.
He returned to the Santa Clara, Calif.-based cybersecurity company after more than a year at Zscaler, according to his LinkedIn. He left Zscaler with the title of systems engineering director.
He left Palo Alto Networks in 2020 after at least four years with the company. When he left, he held the title of global systems engineering director for Prisma Access and software-as-a-service, according to LinkedIn
His resume also includes more than a year with World Wide Technology, according to LinkedIn. He left in 2016 with the title of systems engineering manager. In this role, he was “responsible for creating and building (the) engineering team in” Minnesota and Wisconsin and “helped drive +65M in revenue for 2015, doubled from previous year.”
Scott Simkin
CrowdStrike hired Scott Simkin in May as vice president of product and solutions marketing, according to his LinkedIn account.
Simkin joined the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based cybersecurity company after more than a year with Zscaler, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company with the title of senior director, head of security and hybrid workforce product marketing.
Prior to Zscaler, he worked for about seven years at Palo Alto Networks. He left the company in 2020 with the title of senior director and head of marketing for the Cortex offering.
His resume also includes more than five years at Cisco, according to his LinkedIn. He left in 2013 with the title of product marketing manager of network security.
Brian Rogan
Brian Rogan joined Capgemini in May, taking on the role of vice president of software product engineering, according to his LinkedIn.
Rogan came to the France-based company – No. 5 on CRN’s 2022 Solution Provider 500 – after more than five years with LeverageHub, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company with the title of managing director and executive vice president of sales. In this role, he worked “with leading client partners like Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, Workday, Unikie, Emergn, Ciklum, KarChing, and many ISVs and investors.”
His resume includes about two years with Ciklum, according to his LinkedIn. He left in 2019 with the title of executive vice president of sales and president of North America. In this role, he led and managed “North American sales, channels and marketing teams.”
James Carrigan Jr.
Kyndryl brought on James Carrigan Jr. in May as vice president and U.S. security practice leader, according to his LinkedIn.
Before he came to the New York-based company – No. 6 on CRN’s 2022 Solution Provider 500 – he worked for more than a year with RedShield, according to his LinkedIn. He left RedShield in October with the title of chief revenue officer. In this role, he “doubled the number of U.S. partners by having served as (a) senior leader directing (the) company internationally through the next phase of growth.”
He previously worked at Verizon Enterprise Solutions for about two years. He left the company in 2019 with the title of vice president and global managing director of cybersecurity solutions. In this role, he “transformed (the) $400M+ managed security business and improved sales culture to create positive revenue growth from -2% to double digit growth,” according to LinkedIn.
Carlos Henriquez
Carlos Henriquez joined CDW in May as vice president of product and partner management for endpoint solutions, according to his LinkedIn.
He came to the Vernon Hills, Ill.-based company – No. 4 on CRN’s 2022 Solution Provider 500 – after about 30 years with Dell Technologies, according to his LinkedIn. His last role with Dell was vice president of global software and peripherals operations.
Other titles held with Dell include vice president and general manager of global partner software and executive director of global enterprise partner management.
Matt Bergen
DXC brought Matt Bergen on last month as its vice president and chief transformation officer, according to his LinkedIn.
He joined the Ashburn, Va.-based company – No. 9 on CRN’s 2022 Solution Provider 500 – after more than eight years with General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), according to his LinkedIn. He left GDIT with the title of CTO and vice president of integration and business transformation.
Bergen’s resume includes about five years with IBM. He left the company in 2014 with the title of program manager of federal infrastructure managed services.
Buffi Gresh
Ensono hired Buffi Gresh last month as vice president of field operations, according to her LinkedIn.
She came to the Downers Grove, Ill.-based member of CRN’s 2022 Managed Service Provider 500 after more than a year with IBM, according to her LinkedIn. She left the company with the title of vice president of global business development.
Previously, Gresh worked for more than three years at CloudBees. She left the company in 2020 with the title of area vice president of the continuous integration, continuous development (CI/CD) product business teams, according to her LinkedIn. Her product areas included “DevOps, Microservices, K8s, CI/CD, Cloud Migration, Feature Flagging, ARO.”
Kirk Schell
Kirk Schell joined Arrow Electronics in May as president of global components, according to his LinkedIn.
Schell came to the Centennial, Colo.-based distributor after about 25 years with Dell Technologies, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company with the title of senior vice president of global business e-commerce.
He previously served more than seven years with the United States Navy, according to his LinkedIn.
Andre Bourgeacq
Last month, CGI hired Andre Bourgeacq, giving him the title of vice president of consulting services, according to his LinkedIn.
In this role with the Canada-based company – No. 14 on CRN’s 2022 Solution Provider 500 – he “leads business development and delivery of services to clients within the public service sector, while supporting the digital transformation strategy for the Government of Canada,” according to his LinkedIn.
Bourgeacq previously worked at Blue Prism for more than two years, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company with the title of national leader for Canadian public sector strategic alliances and client innovation.
In this role, he “engaged and collaborated with Leaders, Partners, and Stakeholders to drive accelerated digital innovation and transformation within Public Sector organizations,” according to his LinkedIn.
His resume includes more than three years with Oracle, according to his LinkedIn. He left in 2019 with the title of senior director of consulting services.
Tony Abedini
Tony Abedini joined Zones in May as its vice president of cloud delivery services, according to his LinkedIn.
Abedini came to the Auburn, Wash.-based company – No. 29 on CRN’s 2022 Solution Provider 500 – after more than two years with WinWire Technologies, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company with the title of vice president of cloud technology solutions.
He previously worked at insurance products provider The Standard for about two years, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company in 2019 with the title of senior solutions architect.
Steve Rubin
VPLS brought on Steve Rubin in May as vice president of network engineering, according to his LinkedIn.
Rubin joined the Los Angeles-based member of CRN’s 2022 Managed Service Provider 500 after more than three years with CrowdStrike, according to his LinkedIn. He left CrowdStrike with the title of manager of network engineering.
He previously founded and held multiple leadership titles with Layer42 Networks, according to his LinkedIn. Layer42 sold in 2015 to Wave, a gigabit fiber and broadband services company, according to a statement from the time.
Adam Massey
Adam Massey is the new vice president for independent software vendor (ISV) and marketplace sales at SADA, according to his LinkedIn.
He joined the Los Angeles-based company – No. 102 on CRN’s 2022 Solution Provider 500 – after less than a year with Material Security. He left Material Security with the title of vice president of sales, according to his LinkedIn.
Massey previously worked at Google for more than 12 years, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company in 2019 with the title of global director of Google Cloud’s ecosystem business. In this role, he was in charge of “Google‘s ecosystem business including channel sales, technology alliances, GSIs, and partner programs,” and he developed “the critically important ISV business and developed a global GTM team to drive ISV revenue growth on Google Cloud.”
Bob Meindl
Binary Defense hired Bob Meindl last month as its new CEO, according to his LinkedIn.
Meindl joined the Stow, Ohio-based managed security services provider after more than two years with Capgemini, according to his LinkedIn. He left the consultancy in September with the title of executive vice president and head of the North American cybersecurity practice.
In this role, he had “full P&L responsibility leading the go to market strategy and execution, delivery, center of Excellence, program management and strategy” and led “a team of over 1000 Cyber professionals,” according to his LinkedIn.
He came to Capgemini in 2019 with the acquisition of Leidos Cyber, the security division of the Fortune 500 defense contractor Leidos Holdings. Meindl came to Leidos in 2016 with the $4.7 billion merger of Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) business segment and Leidos.
Omar Bhatti
ConvergeOne hired Omar Bhatti in May as president of services, according to his LinkedIn.
Bhatti joined the Bloomington, Minn.-based company – No. 35 on CRN’s 2022 Solution Provider 500 – after more than five years with General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), according to his LinkedIn.
His most recent title with GDIT was vice president and general manager of technology shared services, according to his LinkedIn. In this role, Bhatti led “a fully distributed team charged with utilizing innovative technologies and differentiated processes to deliver enterprise managed services.”
Bhatti previously worked at Accenture for more than eight years, according to his LinkedIn. He left in 2014 with the title of Program Management Office (PMO) lead for Accenture’s Department of Treasury IRS Enterprise Portals (IEP) program.
Mike Carter
Mike Carter joined Splunk last month as vice president of customer success and renewals for the Americas, according to his LinkedIn.
Carter came to the San Francisco-based data observability and security platform provider after more than a year with Cisco, according to his LinkedIn. He left Cisco with the title of vice president of customer experience for the global enterprise segment.
He previously worked at Dell Technologies for more than 30 years, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company in 2020 with the title of vice president of customer success for Dell Secureworks. In this role, Carter “drove C-level alignment, customer analytics, governance, and early improvement insights.”
Jens Sohn
Meriplex hired Jens Sohn last month as its vice president of production management and center of excellence, according to his LinkedIn.
Sohn came to the Houston-based member of CRN’s 2022 Managed Service Provider 500 after more than 20 years with Ericsson, according to his LinkedIn.
At Ericsson, Sohn most recently held the title of managed services chief operating officer for an unnamed Silicon Valley hyperscale cloud provider, according to his LinkedIn. In this role, he “led a geographically dispersed delivery team across 57 countries with main interfaces in Singapore, Dublin, Sao Paulo, and Denver” and delivered “an installation and break-fix Managed Services program for a Silicon Valley HCP.”
Todd Hale
In May, Todd Hale joined ConnectWise as its new chief information officer.
In his new role with the Tampa-based software company aimed at service providers, Hale will be responsible for data services, business applications and systems, IT enterprise architecture, business transformation and more.
Most recently, Hale was the founder and general manager of Next Generation Digital Solutions in Tampa. He also spent 17 years at Office Depot holding multiple positions such as executive vice president and global CIO. Prior to Office Depot, he served on the IT leadership team for the Eckerd Corp., where he led the development of the company’s supply chain, merchandising and analytical capabilities.
Rich O’Connor
Rich O’Connor came to Hewlett Packard Enterprise in May, taking on the role of vice president of service reliability engineering, according to his LinkedIn.
Before he joined the Houston-based tech giant, O’Connor worked at NetApp for more than nine years, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company with the title of head of site reliability engineering. In this role, he “created and led a global SRE, Infrastructure and Cloud Operations organization for a portfolio of public cloud services with >$300M in Annual Recurring Revenue.”
O’Connor also worked at IBM for more than 14 years, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company in 2013 after holding “multiple leadership positions in Engineering, Product Management, Technical Pre-Sales, Marketing.”
Jennifer Chason
NetApp hired Jennifer Chason as vice president of its United States commercial business in May, according to her LinkedIn.
Before Chason joined the San Jose-based cloud data services company, she worked at Google for about three years, according to her LinkedIn. She left with the title of director at Google Cloud Enterprise. In this role, she was responsible “for the growth of our Enterprise Businesses across the SoCal and Western States Regions.”
Her resume includes more than 17 years with Microsoft, according to LinkedIn. She left the company in 2019 with the title of general manager of enterprise for the Americas region. In this role, she drove “growth across the MSFT Enterprise businesses in the US, Canada & LATAM.”
Koray Ozcubukcu
Blue.cloud hired a new chief operating officer last month: Koray Ozcubukcu.
Ozcubukcu joined the Tampa, Fla.-based company – No. 451 on CRN’s 2022 Solution Provider 500 – after more than four years with Slalom, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company with the title of managing director. In this role, he led “business development and consulting delivery at a large US national wireless provider.”
He previously worked at nxPerion for more than eight years, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company in 2017 with the title of managing principal. In this role, he led “technology and management consulting services at Fortune 50 enterprises.”