Channel Futures' People Mover: ConnectWise, Kaseya, Bitdefender, More
We're highlighting 13 of your peers and colleagues who recently have accepted new jobs or promotions.
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Atmosera, the tier-1 Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider, tapped Ellie Soleymani as its new director of marketing. She will focus on implementing strategies that build brand awareness.
Two of her previous jobs were at Mobile Labs and PGi.
Cybersecurity provider Bitdefender named Michael Gable the new VP of its data-center group. The new division is focused solely on cloud and data-center security.
Gable’s extensive background includes 10 years at Trend Micro. Most recently, he spent a year as a regional VP for Malwarebytes, according to his LinkedIn page.
The hire is part of Bitdefender’s strategy to leverage its technologies to secure server and virtual desktop workloads running on software-defined, hyperconverged and cloud infrastructure.
Michael Persechini is the new VP of sales at LogPoint, tasked with establishing a channel-partner-based sales operation in the U.S.
His 20 years of experience includes time at Qwest, Symantec and Cisco.
Together with Soren Laustrup, the founder of LogPoint, Persechini will oversee the organizational build-up that will allow LogPoint to serve U.S. enterprises of all sizes and industries and provide its advanced SIEM platform via the channel.
Vology, the managed IT services provider, appointed Mike Ehresman to the role of VP of sales enablement.
He will oversee the company’s presales, sales training and solutions architect team.
Ehresman has 30 years of experience under his belt, most recently supporting a sales organization of nearly 180 professionals, providing thought leadership and executing sales-specific and cross-functional initiatives as VP, sales operations, at Florida-based Greenway Health.
IT solutions provider and MSP Logicalis appointed Mike Trojecki to the newly created position of VP of IoT. His job will be to develop the company’s strategy, partnerships and execution plan around digital technologies.
Trojecki comes to Logicalis from ePlus Technology, where he held a number of roles, including VP of digital infrastructure, where he was responsible for the company’s emerging digital-technologies strategy.
Attivo Networks, which provides deception solutions for cybersecurity defense, named Steve Troyer its VP of business development. He is tasked with continuing to build out the company’s integration partner network to improve customers’ ability to quickly respond to and remediate threats.
Specifically, Troyer will be responsible for expanding Attivo’s partner-development efforts around its ThreatDefend Deception and Response Platform and third-party integrations for the acceleration of incident handling and response.
Before joining Attivo, Troyer founded and served as president of LiveReach Media, an IoT analytics startup.
Vincent Fournier is Binary Tree‘s first chief innovation officer.
In this role, Fournier will lead a team the helps power digital transformation. His team will develop new products and services to “meet the urgent and pervasive needs of customers.”
He has more than 20 years of industry experience, including stints as CIO at BitTitan and Attunix.
Bill Welch is the president and COO at Duo Security. He has 25 years of experience at such tech giants as HP, Symantec and Oracle.
Welch is charged with advancing the company’s long-term vision and global operations, as well as the strategy and acceleration of Duo’s go-to-market engine as the company continues to rapidly scale and expand internationally.
Bill Schow is the new vice president of consulting at ConnectWise. It’s another new position, one where Schow will lead a team that’s expanding the company’s product-based consulting service into an end-to-end offering “designed to help technology teams, businesses and leadership reach growth goals.”
Schow comes to ConnectWise via its recent acquisition of HTG, a worldwide consulting, coaching and peer group organization.
Before HTG, Schow spent 20 years growing a solutions and MSP business.
Chad Holmes is the new chief services and operations officer at Optiv Security, the security solutions integrator. It’s a new position at Optiv.
Holmes is tasked with further evolving Optiv’s services to enable clients around the world to better address risk across “the entire business continuum” – from third parties, to back office, straight through to front-line employees.
He has 20 years of security experience, most recently as managing partner/principal and chief strategy, technology and innovation officer for Ernst & Young’s cybersecurity practice.
Mimecast, the email and data-security company, hired Christina Van Houten as its new chief strategy officer.
She will be responsible for driving corporate development, product management and market strategy as part of building out Mimecast’s email security, archive, and cyber resilience cloud platform.
Van Houten’s list of former employers is a who’s who of tech, including Oracle, IBM and Infor Global Solutions.
Kaseya, the IT infrastructure-management provider for MSPs, appointed CJ Wimley to the role of president and chief customer officer. He’s tasked with leading a team of “customer success advocates” committed to empowering customers with the tools necessary to “derive maximum value from their Kaseya relationship.”
Wimley comes to Kaseya from TeamDynamix, where he was CEO.
CloudJumper, the workspace as a service provider, promoted Drew Walz from director of platform architects to chief technology officer. He’ll oversee the company’s products and services strategy and development.
Walz has been with CloudJumper for 16 years, where he has held numerous positions with the organization’s family of companies. In his most recent role, Walz was responsible for overseeing advanced platform integrations to enable CloudJumper’s Workspace as a Service offering.
CloudJumper, the workspace as a service provider, promoted Drew Walz from director of platform architects to chief technology officer. He’ll oversee the company’s products and services strategy and development.
Walz has been with CloudJumper for 16 years, where he has held numerous positions with the organization’s family of companies. In his most recent role, Walz was responsible for overseeing advanced platform integrations to enable CloudJumper’s Workspace as a Service offering.
There might be a skills shortage in the IT channel, but don’t tell that to these folks.
In this inaugural Channel Futures “People Mover,” we’re highlighting 13 of your peers and colleagues who recently have accepted new jobs or promotions. The positions are at some of the biggest IT vendors, security providers and MSPs in the business. Think ConnectWise, Kaseya, Atmosera and Bitdefender, just to name a few.
Job titles range from VP of sales to VP of IoT and chief innovation officer. All play key roles that run the gamut — developing new products and services, running partner programs and channel marketing, just to name a few.
Scroll through our gallery. We bet you see people you know.
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