Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: PeopleGlobal data protection provider, has appointed a long-time information security and cloud veteran as its new President and Chief Executive Officer.
Bret Hartman, a well-known and highly regarded 30-year security industry veteran, is Cisco System’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) new chief technology officer for the Security Technology Group, according to a blog by Chris Young, Cisco senior vice president, Security and Government Group.
Hartman, most recently CTO at RSA, EMC’s (NYSE: EMC) security division, is tasked with defining Cisco’s overall security tech
Extreme Networks (NASDAQ: EXTR) has named Nancy Shemwell, a 20-year industry veteran, to head its global sales efforts, directing the vendor’s sales and channel management teams and eyeing expansion in the cloud, data center, enterprise campus and mobility markets, company officials said.
Shemwell’s background includes a two-year stint as chief executive at Multi-Link, a telecom device maker; Symm
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) named Robert Youngjohns, an IT veteran with 30-plus years of experience sporting some big names in his background including Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Sun Microsystems and IBM (NYSE: IBM), as senior vice president and general manager of its troubled Autonomy and Information Management business unit.
Youngjohns, who also had a 30-month stint as Callidus Software president
AMD (NYSE: AMD) has named Roy Taylor, a 25-year industry veteran, to head its Global Channel Sales, tasked with managing and growing the embattled chip maker’s indirect business worldwide as the company rearranges its executive management to focus on new markets and enlist channel support.
Data storage heavyweight NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) shook up its top management team a bit this week, adding a new head of strategy and promoting a seven-year company veteran as its new chief technology officer (CTO), moves the company believes will enable it to capitalize on technology and business trends to better position it for future growth.
Jonathan Kissane, former CA Technologies senior vice pre
WAN optimization honcho Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) has tapped Ian Whiting, formerly Brocade’s Worldwide Sales executive vice president, to lead its sales efforts in the Americas, particularly to mold the vendor’s sales channels to meet customer demand.
Whiting, who will report to Dave Peranich, Riverbed Global Field Operations executive vice president, is tasked with reworking the company’s go-to-mar
Geoff Fancher, a 17-year Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) veteran, is taking over U.S. sales for Westcon Group’s Comstor business unit, a specialist in the networking vendor’s products and solutions.
Fancher, formerly Cisco’s vice president, U.S. Field Partner organization, is tasked as new Comstor senior vice president with P&L responsibility for the distributor’s U.S.
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: PeopleMcAfee has promoted its former Asia Pacific regional president Steve Redman to the role of executive vice president of global sales, and hired Penny Baldwin as executive vice president and chief marketing officer.
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