Channel People on the Move: HPE, Avant, Sophos, ConnectWise, More

Regional sales manager is the title for Chris Raponi in his new job at Momentum, the connectivity provider.

He joins the company after four years as a strategic partner manager at RingCentral. Powernet and IntelePeer are two more of his previous employers.

Tech services distributor Avant hired Claire McAuliffe (left) as its new VP of marketing.

She spent the last three years overseeing the marketing team at Calero, the telecom expense management provider.

Melissa Joy Kong (right) also joined the Avant team as senior director of growth and product marketing. She is the founder of the Iceberg Agency, a marketing consulting firm.

Andrew Wood will represent DocLink by Beyond Limits in the Northeast as a partner sales director.

He joins the document storage company after two years at Zendesk. He also has worked for D&H Distributing and Ingram Micro, to name a couple.

Saying that she "hit the job lottery," channel veteran Lynne Doherty took a new job with Sonar as its president of field operations. Her role is to drive revenue and ensure that Sonar customers are successful in their pursuit of clean code.

Doherty's last position was president of worldwide field operations at Sumo Logic. You might also know her from McAfee or Cisco.

Get the full scoop here.

Anomali, the AI-powered security operations platform, named Micheal McCollough its new VP of global channel sales. His goal, as you might imagine, will be to help the company's global partners modernize security operations and drive channel growth.

McCollough's last job was global VP of strategic growth at Imperva. Before that, he spent more than eight years at Akamai and seven years at Dell.

Jennifer Binet just took on a new role as VP of North America sales at Jitterbit, the data integration company.

This comes after six-and-a-half years at Sectigo, where she was SVP of enterprise sales. Her other career stops include Silent Circle and Entrust.

Sophos removed the interim label from Joe Levy's title of chief executive officer, giving him the nod to run the security giant.

Levy had been interim CEO since February, stepping in for Kris Hagerman, who stepped down from the job.

Levy has been with the company since 2015, when he started as CTO. You can read more about his elevated status here.

You're looking at Nancy Mather, the new chief operating officer at Uprise Partners, the Maine-based cybersecurity and managed services provider. She has more than 20 years of experience, particularly in project management and operations within the tech industry.

You probably know Mather best from a 21-year career at Blue Mantis, another MSP, where she was senior director, PMO.

Paul Harris left his role as regional vice president, EMEA, at Telarus, for a new gig as channel director at Calero, the managed technology solutions provider.

Based in London, Harris also is an alumnus of CDW and Gamma Telecoms.

Atlas Professional Services, which calls Tampa, Florida, home has a new CEO in Tony Martinez.

Martinez most recently was chief growth officer at SecurityStudio. Atlas founder and former CEO Greg Zolkos will stay with the company as board chairman.

Cybersecurity company Coro named Lisa Paradis its new director of channel operations. It's a promotion from inside channel manager.

Paradis spent the bulk of her career at AccessOne before a year-and-a-half at Netrix and now two years at Coro.

John Stock, a 14-year Park Place Technologies veteran who started as a sales development associate, has climbed the ladder all the way to SVP of global sales.

"Park Place has been more than my career; it has been the foundation that has allowed me to build a family and amazing life in Northeast Ohio," Stock said in acknowledging his new position at the data center and networking optimization solutions provider.

Tara Koger is the new partner sales director, TSDs, for Kore AI, the AI-optimized customer and employee experience platform.

Nextiva, Windstream and 8x8 all are among Koger's former employers.

Hannah Birch is the new group managing director at Node4, the U.K.-based cloud MSP. It's a promotion from managing director, digital, at the business.

Before her year-and-a-half at Node4, Birch spent a year-and-a-half at Ensono. You might also know her from more than 11 years at Accenture and another 11 at Computacenter.

Brian Lamberger is the new chief revenue officer at Nuspire, the Michigan-based managed security service provider. He will help drive the company's growth strategy, and expand its sales and partnership divisions.

He recently spent seven-and-a-half years at AccountabilIT, finishing there as CRO.

Arnab Chakraborty, a longtime leader in Accenture’s data & AI practice, is its first chief responsible AI officer.

He's been with the IT giant for more than 11 years. Before Accenture, he called HP home.

Michael Bernhardt stepped into the role of VP of worldwide distribution at HPE, formerly held by Simon Ewington, who was promoted last year to VP of worldwide channel and partner ecosystem.

Bernhardt's last role at HPE was global account manager for the company's TD Synnex relationship.

Learn more about Bernhardt here.

Bobby Sociedade just took a new job at APX Net, the data network solutions provider.

He's coming off a three-year stint at Telarus, and before that, four years at Net2phone.

It's a promotion for Neal Bradbury at cloud security provider Barracuda. He is now chief product officer, most recently serving as SVP of Barracuda's managed service provider business.

Now with the company for nine years, Bradbury's job will be to lead a unified product, engineering and advanced technology team that "steers the vision" for Barracuda's cybersecurity platform and drives customer-centric innovation.

Cycode, the application security posture management company, named Prasad Raman head of alliances.

Raman held the same title at SecurityScorecard, where he spent more than two years' prior. IBM also is a former employer.

CommandLink, the software-defined network and communication infrastructure provider, has two moves of note.

That's Caroline Cashion on the left, the company's new national channel director, based in Austin, Texas. She comes from Ntegrated Solutions, where she was director of strategic partnerships for more than seven years. She's also a Windstream alum.

That's Norys Trevino on the right. She joins the company as channel director, based in the Las Vegas area. She's an alumnus of Nextiva and 8x8.

Seattle-based AppViewX, which offers advanced life-cycle management and a public key infrastructure (PKI) platform, named Gavin Ansell its director of channels for EMEA.

Ansell takes the role after nearly five years at VMware, where he was senior manager for EMEA channels for the company's CloudHealth division.

Kodem Security, the Israel-based AWS partner that specializes in determining application risk, appointed Mahesh Babu (left) head of marketing and Dennis Vavasis (right) head of sales.

You might know Babu from ServiceNow or Contrast Security. Vavasis is a veteran of Orca Security and Cloudflare.

Intelisys, the tech services distributor, turned to Heather Kurzenski (left) as the new director of its CX program. It's a promotion from CX program manager for the Talkdesk and Vonage alum.

On the right, that's Eddie Acosta, who makes his return to Intelisys from rival Avant, where he was VP of sales strategy for North America. In his second stint at Intelisys, Acosta will oversee Intelisys' sales team for the central U.S.

Read more about what lured Acosta back to his former employer.

Digi International found its man in Tony Puopolo, who joins the team as general manager and senior VP of managed solutions.

The new hire at the global provider of IoT connectivity products and services comes to Digi from Cradlepoint, where he spent more than 13 years, most recently as SVP of sales, global service providers.

e92plus, the U.K.-based cybersecurity value-added distributor, appointed John Rustage as country manager for Ireland, where it's expanding its business.

His last job was a similar one at Mentor Distribution. He's also a veteran of Acer.

It's a promotion for BreAnn Hughes at Telarus, the tech services distributor.

Hughes moves up from area manager, West, to director of customer success. She was at Jive Communications before her nearly eight years at Telarus.

Software solutions provider Clarion Technologies hied Trish Kapos as its new channel sales head in the U.S.

Kapos has a long history in the channel, recently serving as channel leader and VP of sales and marketing at RSI. She's also well-known from her stints at MicroCorp, Telarus and AT&T Mobility.

IT software management provider ConnectWise named Rik Thorbecke its new chief financial officer.

He has numerous CFO positions on his resume, including at Virgin Pulse, Jitterbit and Magnitude Software.

Kyle McCaffrey is helping managed security service providers to stay abreast of evolving threats in his new role as distributions sales manager, MSSPs, at CrowdStrike. It's a promotion from alliance sales manager.

Before his two years at CrowdStrike, McCaffrey was with Trend Micro and ConnectWise.

Kris Blackmon has a new role as director of partner marketing at AvePoint, the secure data management company.

You know her from her previous roles at Zift Solutions, channel consultancy JS Group and as an editor here at Channel Futures.

Logix Fiber Networks just hired Jay Wicker as a new senior channel sales manager.

Based in the Dallas area, BCN, NetFortris and AireSpring are three of the places he used to call his employment home.

GTT's tech services distributor channel now will be led by Mia Martuscelli.

As senior VP and channel leader for GTT's indirect channel in the Americas, Martuscelli will have oversight of relationships with TSDs, IT consultants and "other third-party distribution channels."

Lumen, American Tower and Equinix are among her former employers.

Get the full scoop on Martuscelli's new role.

Cloud-based UC provider Wildix turned to Jason Uslan as its new VP of global sales. It's a new role at the company.

Uslan spent more than 11 years at rival RingCentral, where he most recently was regional VP of sales for the U.K. and Germany. He is based in London.

Here's where you can learn more about the new hire.

After five-and-a-half years at Innovative Business Solutions, Ryan Spinosa left for Ntegrated, the tech enablement and managed network services company.

Based in Denver, he's a national account manager.

A trio of moves at UC giant RingCentral.

Starting in the middle, that's Wendy Harmon, promoted to vice president of global channel marketing. She's one of the most visible faces of the RingCentral channel.

That's Larry Crabtree on the left. He also was promoted to VP, leading partner sales in the West.

On the right you've got Patrick Annesty, senior channel content manager. It's also a promotion for Annesty, who has been with the company for four-and-a-half years.

Jim Nairn is the new head of channel at Sprinklr, the cloud-based customer experience management platform. He brings experience from WalkMe, ServiceNow and EMC.

He replaces Jay Vigeland, who the company laid off a few months ago. Sprinklr had another round of layoffs in May that impacted 3% of its workforce.

Read about Nairn and other changes here.

Rakesh Parbhoo stepped into a newly created role of executive VP of Westcon-Comstor's Middle East and Africa (MEA) business.

It's a promotion at the distribution giant for Parbhoo, who joined Westcon-Comstor in 2017. He also retains the title of global chief technology officer for the company.

Nintex, which provides process intelligence and workforce automation solutions, named Christian Lucarelli (left) vice president and head of global partner strategy. The company will ask him to improve collaboration and drive "mutual success" by building strong relationships with the Nintex partner community.

It's a promotion for Lucarelli, who has been with Nintex for nine years.

The company also promoted Tony Thomas (right), VP and head of global customer success. He just started with Nintex at the first of the year after its acquisition of Skuid, where he was chief customer officer.

Pax8, the cloud marketplace, has a new CEO. It's Scott Chasin, who gets the promotion from chief technology officer.

He fills the shoes of founder John Street who will step down from running the company day-to-day but will remain as chairman of the board.

Chasin has been CTO at Pax8 since 2021. Learn more about the new chief executive.

Shane Speakman, known for channel roles at Telarus, Electric Lightwave, XO Communications and more, is venturing out on his own, starting Southfork Tech Advisors, which offers customized technology and telecommunications consulting.

Speakman's last role was VP of unified communications at Telarus.

You know him from his 15 years at Kaseya; now, Kirk Feathers has signed on with Techs+Together, the community of MSPs, as president and chief technology officer.

Feathers was global VP of product enablement at the end of his Kaseya run. He spent part of his earlier career there as a senior tech analyst with a stint as CEO at Greater Intell in between.

Lawrence Van Deusen just started a new gig as global VP of networking practice at Zones, the $3 billion IT solutions and managed service provider.

He spent the last four years at Juniper Networks, but also brings 16 years of experience Dimension Data.

Joe Servin joined the team at Regal.io, the cloud contact software provider, as channel account manager for the West.

Based in southern California, Servin last held a similar role at LiveVox. He also spent eight years at NICE.

Cloudbench, a Google partner and AI and emerging tech startup, expanded Sameh Ibrahim's role within the company. He is taking on the role of chief channel and revenue officer (CCRO). He already was overseeing channel partnerships in his first six months with the company.

Ibrahim has 40 years of experience, which includes leading sales and channel alliance organizations for Microsoft, AWS, Teradata, IBM and more.

Cloudbench, a Google partner and AI and emerging tech startup, expanded Sameh Ibrahim's role within the company. He is taking on the role of chief channel and revenue officer (CCRO). He already was overseeing channel partnerships in his first six months with the company.

Ibrahim has 40 years of experience, which includes leading sales and channel alliance organizations for Microsoft, AWS, Teradata, IBM and more.