Channel People on the Move: Lenovo, UJET, HPE, Intelisys, Nextiva, More
We also have moves at ExtraHop, Lumen, Telesystem, Zayo, New Relic, BCM One and many more.
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Industry veteran Chase Reese is now president of Americas sales and global channel for SolarWinds. Reese was previously global head of worldwide sales, commercial at VMware. Before joining VMware, he spent nearly 22 years at IBM, starting in their training program and ending up as the vice president of sales, cloud and SaaS, North America, for the enterprise and commercial customer segments.
SolarWinds said that Reese will help drive their next phase of growth.
AWS has promoted Amy Belcher to the position of director of worldwide ISV sales and go-to-market strategy. Belcher, who has been with AWS since 2020, previously served as leader of ISV sales and go-to-market strategy for the worldwide public sector.
Belcher came to AWS from Xerox. She has also worked at Dell and Tech Data.
As part of their new strategic direction, Rackspace moved Amar Maletira into the CEO position vacated by Kevin Jones, who moved to Apollo Management Group. Maletira had served as Rackspace’s president and CFO since 2020. He will stay on as CFO until a replacement is named.
Get a closer look at Rackspace’s new strategy and the role Maletira will play here.
We learned in August that Hilary Gadda would be departing TPx Communications after a long career there. Now we know her plans.
She is joining Nextiva, the business communications collaboration software vendor. Gadda’s title will be head of partner development.
Gadda told us why she made the move.
Chalk this one up as well in the didn’t-know-but-now-we-know-where-she’s-going category.
Amy Bailey, well known for the last seven years as marketing leader at Telarus, the technology solutions brokerage, told us in August she was leaving the firm.
Now we know it’s to start her own channel consultancy in the form of Unusually Unusual.
Our James Anderson profiled Bailey.
Sarah Marsh is the third person in this edition of Channel People on the Move to appear in consecutive months.
That’s because, like Gadda and Bailey before her, Marsh, the longtime Verizon exec, only told us in August that she was leaving the carrier.
We followed up and learned she was headed to Workday, the enterprise management cloud provider, to be that company’s director of channel partnerships.
We got all the details on her move.
HiddenLayer hired Abigail Maines as its new CRO. Maines, a security channel vet, came from Cybereason where she served as vice president of channel and commercial sales in North America.
Read about what Maines plans to do in her new position here.
Side note: Maines is a co-founder of FIERCE (Females in Every Role Change Everything). The organization educates and energizes women to be more confident and empowered.
Zayo has added to its channel team with a trio of hires.
Tom Gainor (left) has been hired as vice president of channel sales for the Eastern U.S. He comes to Zayo after more than 18 years at Verizon, most recently serving as director of indirect sales.
Jonas Lehman (center) is Zayo’s new national partner manager. He has an extensive background in channel management, having served in that capacity for Edify, Jenne Cloud Services, Charter Communication and Vonage.
Brandt Stein (right) is a senior channel manager, working with partners in the southeast. Prior to Zayo, Stein held positions with companies including Comcast Business and TeleTech Corp.,
Montreal-based Valsoft Corp. is getting into managed print services and has tapped Nicola De Blasi to lead the way. Valsoft, which specializes in the acquisition and development of software companies acquired Italian firm MPS Monitor and Danish firm Euroform. The two companies are leading developers and providers of remote monitoring and management (RMM) and managed print services SaaS solutions for the print industry.
De Blasi is CEO of MPS Monitor and will assume the additional role of CEO of Euroform.
UC specialist Sangoma has appointed Mark Jones as its new head of channel for the U.K. and Ireland, to drive the company’s operations forward. Jones is responsible for increasing the number of Sangoma’s channel partners, helping distributors onboard more resellers, expanding Sangoma’s customer base and increasing Sangoma’s brand awareness and recognition in the U.K.
Jones has three decades of experience in technology and the channel. He joins Sangoma from Beyond Connectivity. He also worked for BT and Virgin.
Channel veteran Jon Wolfe joined Vonage as senior channel manager. Wolfe was a founding member of the agent channel at US LEC. He spent 16 years there, through the time the company was bought by PAETEC which was subsequently acquired by Windstream. Wolfe came to Vonage after six years with Nextiva where he was senior channel partner manager
Navisite is investing in its Oracle practice with the appointment of veteran Oracle services executive Jason Zolczynski. He joins Navisite as its vice president of Oracle applications, overseeing the professional services team. Building on the significant scale and growth of Navisite’s Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Hyperion practices, Zolcyznski will work with leadership to continue to evolve the company’s Oracle strategy, including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and its Oracle applications portfolio.
Veritas Technologies is making a significant investment in its go-to-market strategy across its international region. The company has assembled a new cloud-specialist team focused on Africa. Asia, Europe, Middle East and Pacific. The team will be led by Paul Hollebon (left), international cloud presales leader, and Mark Shephard (right), international cloud sales leader.
Both men have more than 20 years of experience in IT supporting global operations.
Hollebon joins Veritas from Commvault, where he led the EMEA field advisory services team, an international group of specialists that provided advanced technical presales support for Commvault’s largest and most strategic customers.
Shephard has served as a leader in the IT sector, driving success at companies such as Zscaler, Symantec and Barclays. He comes to Veritas from Amazon Web Services, where he led an international team of 40 to support global customers.
It’s a promotion for Holly Barker, now VP, growth marketing, at UJET, the cloud contact center software provider. Her last position was senior director, demand generation and marketing operations.
Barker also has experience from Sumo Logic and AlienVault.
You probably know May Mitchell for any number of stops in the channel, most notably, recently, with cybersecurity companies including iBoss and Cylance.
Now she has popped up at Open Systems as its new chief marketing officer.
Learn what her new company said made her ideal for the job.
Ron Markezich was with Microsoft for 24 years, most recently as its CIO. Now he’s taking on a new opportunity … somewhere.
He hasn’t divulged his future work home just yet, but it’s worth noting that he is on the board of directors at Lighthouse Global.
Read what he wrote on LinkedIn about his former employer.
Gary Abad is the new VP of global channels at LogRhythm, the SIEM and security operations center provider.
He brings 25 years of experience to his new gig, from such companies as Trustwave, Ivanti, Meru Networks (acquired by Fortinet), F5 Networks and Kaspersky.
You can learn more about Abad here (slide 9).
Video collaboration vendor DTEN named David Angel general manager, North America channel sales and LATAM. He will lead DTEN channel programs and operations strategies in the Americas.
Angel is a 25-year veteran of Poly and Plantronics, in channel, sales and partnership roles.
You’re looking at Arnaud Budkiewicz, Dialpad‘s new VP of engineering. He’ll use his WebRTC expertise to help Dialpad build “the most resilient business cloud communications services.”
His last gig was senior director of video engineering at RingCentral, where he led the launch of RingCentral Video. He’s also a veteran of BT and Orange.
Brightspeed, the name of the company created by Apollo Management after announcing its acquisition of Lumen’s ILEC assets in 20 states, has named John Howlett wholesale account executive.
Howlett comes over from Nextiva, where he was channel sales manager for New England. He also has experience from APX Net, Frontier and more.
Anne Brogan is the new executive channel leader (commercial) at IT consulting company Booz Allen Hamilton.
Brogan has extensive experience in the industry, from Neustar, Intelisys, Windstream, Nitel and more.
Security giant Barracuda named channel veteran Chris Ross to the role of chief revenue officer. He’s responsible for worldwide sales and partnerships.
It’s a promotion for Ross, who has been with the company since 2015. He joined Barracuda seven years ago as SVP of international sales.
Get more info about his plans on the job.
It’s a promotion for Jason DiFulvio at AppSmart, where he jumps from national channel sales manager to director of channel sales, emerging markets. He will work to create new opportunities for channel advisers to expand the depth and breadth of their portfolios.
DiFulvio was part of the WTG team before it sold to AppSmart a few years ago. You might also know him from more than 15 years at CenturyLink/Qwest.
Nikki Day made the TSD hop, from Telarus to Intelisys.
Day, whose title is senior business development manager, spent the last four years at Telarus, four years before that at Comtel Group and four years prior to that at Comcast Business.
Day is also a One Communications alum.
Zayo Group nabbed Bill Long as its new chief product officer. He will lead the company’s overall product strategy, financials and road map.
He has 20 years of experience in telecommunications, with expertise in interconnection and infrastructure services. He comes to Zayo from Equinix, where he was SVP of product management.
Managed tech solutions provider BCM One made a couple of key hires.
That’s John Hamater, a new regional channel director based in Chicago, on the right. He comes from Hypercore Networks, which Nitel just bought.
On the left, that’s Randy Greene, starting his new job as channel manager with the company. He, too, comes from Hypercore/Nitel, and also brings experience from NetFortris, Broadvoice and TPx.
Mirakl, the enterprise marketplace SaaS platform, turned to Jean-Gabriel de Mourgues as the new executive VP of Mirakl Connect and growth solutions.
He comes to the company after nearly 10 years at Amazon, where he most recently was the company’s Latin America marketplace director.
ExtraHop, the network detection and response provider, named Duncan Butchart vice president of EMEA.
Butchart has 20 years of experience at companies such as Easynet, Blue Coat Systems, Actian and Skybox Security. He’s been with ExtraHop sinc May as VP of northern EMEA. He has assisted the company with continuous European expansion, helping to develop channel and customer relations within the new region.
Changes in personnel at Lenovo you’ll want to know.
Ralf Jordan (right) joins the team as VP, EMEA channel. He replaces Fiona O’Brien, who moved to a new rol as VP of sales transformation and enablement for international markets.
Jordan spent the last 10 years at Dell, where he most recently led distribution go-to-market for EMEA.
Then there’s Bill Swales (left), who will start his new role at Lenovo in October. The former VP and channel chief of VMware’s Americas partner organization hasn’t yet been specific about what he’ll be doing at Lenovo.
The UK’s Totalmobile, which specializes in field service management software, just launched a new partner program and appointed Lisa Kirby to run it. She has 20 years of experience, with a background from IFS and ServiceNow.
Kirby has been with the company since April.
Kevin Peterson just started a new job as VP of service operations, Midwest, at The 20, a coalition of MSP businesses.
He also is owner of Peterson Technology Group. Peterson has been working with The 20 for four-and-a-half years.
After 40 years in telecommunication and technology, Jeff Storey is handing over the reins at Lumen to Kate Johnson.
The new CEO plans to “take on the CEO role and … advance the strategy Jeff and the team have created.”
Johnson has previously held executive roles with Oracle and GE. She most recently led the U.S. business for Microsoft.
Get the full scoop on the transtion.
New Relic, the data observability specialists, hired Savi Padisetty (right) as SVP and general manager over telemetry data and global infrastructure. He joins from AWS, where he was GM of management tools.
The company also hired Tia Williams as general VP of design and product experience. She comes from Salesforce, where she was VP of user experience and product design.
Learn more about this personnel update.
RapidScale, a Cox Business company, looked to LisaMarie Lancer to be a new cloud solutions consultant in Florida.
She comes to RapidScale from Accenture, where she spent two years. She’s also a Citrix and Splunk alum.
Fresh off its Special Forces Summit in Austin, we learned that Avant named Samantha Blaniar inside sales manager.
She joins the team after two years at GTT. Before that, Blaniar spent nearly seven years at Cogent Communications.
Telehouse, the global colocation provider, tapped Harry Snape as channel partner manager to spearhead expansion of its partner program.
Snape has 12 years of experience in the industry, including stints at Mimecast and Trend Micro.
Telesystem, the provider of managed technology services, split its sales department into two. Robert Martin (right) will lead business development, while Carl Katz (left) will lead the organization’s channel sales efforts.
Martin has been with the company since 2006, holding positions from account executive to director-level jobs. Katz joined Telesystem in September via its acquisition of Threat Protector, where he held a minority ownership stake.
Menlo Security named Rob Cole-Lomas to lead its channel strategy in EMEA. As senior director of channels for the region, it will be his job to build relationships with existing partners and drive new alliances for the company.
Cole-Lomas most recently was at Cybereason, building partner relationships for its incident response and MDR offerings. He also led channels at Swimlane, adding experience from CrowdStrike and FireEye.
Ron McNab joined GoTo as senior strategic partner manager. He is a veteran channel executive with a proven track record of driving strategies that help build successful organizations. With previous leadership roles at AireSpring and Telesystem, McNab is well known and highly respected in the telecommunications industry. He has deep experience with enterprise-class technologies and is adept at taking organizations to the next level.
RingCentral promoted Samantha “Sammy” Griffin to senior manager of partner operations. She now covers all aspects of operational support for RingCentral’s partner sales teams, partner commissions, reporting, contracting and systems/processes. Griffin came to RingCentral from Insightly in 2019 as an account executive on the Partner Sales Team. In 2019 she joined the Partner Success Organization in 2021 as a partner success specialist.
RingCentral promoted Samantha “Sammy” Griffin to senior manager of partner operations. She now covers all aspects of operational support for RingCentral’s partner sales teams, partner commissions, reporting, contracting and systems/processes. Griffin came to RingCentral from Insightly in 2019 as an account executive on the Partner Sales Team. In 2019 she joined the Partner Success Organization in 2021 as a partner success specialist.
Let the fall colors emerge as channel people take new jobs or accept promotions. This edition of Channel People on the Move features personnel changes at HPE, Lenovo, AppSmart, Dialpad, Lumen, RapidScale and more.
We’ve got another blockbuster list that would make any human resources department proud.
First, we have a trio of channel women who told us in August they would be leaving their jobs; we just didn’t know where they were headed until now.
Next is an amazing story about a former intern who rose to a lofty position at HPE. Then, there’s Telesystem splitting responsibilities between a longtime company vet and another well-known channel exec who’s new to the company.
But that’s far from all. You’ll also get the scoop on new hires and promotions at Zayo, New Relic, DTEN, ExtraHop and many more. See our slideshow above to see Channel People on the Move at HPE, Lenovo and others in September.
Heads-up, you CPOTM junkies! We put all of our Channel People on the Move image galleries for 2022 in one place! Or, keep up with Channel People on the Move as they break news.
Miss the previous month’s edition? It featured moves at Verizon, AWS, GoTo, Ingram Micro and Intelisys. It’s here.
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