30 Notable IT Executive Moves: June 2022

Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Dell, Eaton, Trianz and AMD were among the tech companies to make executive hires during the month.

A new Eaton chief information security officer, a new chief revenue officer of Trianz and a new chief strategy officer at Advanced Micro Devices are among the major executive hires of June 2022.

Ruben Chacon, formerly of CDW; Seshi Vanguru, formerly of Brillio; and Mathew Hein, formerly of DBO Partners are just some of the names featured on CRN’s June 2022 executive moves list.

Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Dell Technologies were among the other tech giants to make executive hires during the month as companies invest in resources for sales, technology and partners.

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Those executives were Jason Roszak, formerly of VMware; Julia Chen, formerly of Cisco; and Carol Wilder, formerly of Puppet.

Who changed jobs in June 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 decreased slightly in May, totaling 4.3 million quits, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The quits rate was 2.8 percent.

What follows are 30 notable IT executive moves from June 2022.

Julia Chen

Amazon Web Services hired Julia Chen last month as vice president of AWS Partner Core, according to her LinkedIn.

Chen came to the Seattle-based cloud computing giant after more than six years with Cisco, according to her LinkedIn. She left Cisco with the title of vice president of partner transformation.

In this role, she was “focused on helping Cisco channel partners grow their wallet share through accessing new buying centers, building business outcome solutions on top of Cisco platforms, developing strong customer success practices, and evolving to new business models and routes to market,” according to her LinkedIn.

Her resume also includes more than six years with The Boston Consulting Group, according to her LinkedIn. She left BCG in 2015 with the title of principal consultant and head of consulting and business services.

She “was accountable for lifecycle management of all consulting and business services staff” and “led operations for the BCG Los Angeles office and West Coast system,” according to her LinkedIn.

Cindi Johnson

New Relic hired Cindi Johnson in June as senior director of global partner programs, according to her LinkedIn account.

Johnson came to the San Francisco-based provider of software performance monitoring tools after more than three years with Tanium, according to her LinkedIn.

At Tanium, she had “end-to-end responsibilities for onboarding, deal reg & incentives, sales and technical enablement, competency, services growth, and business expansion for partner ecosystem growing by 100%+ annually.”

Before Tanium, she worked at VMware for more than seven years, according to her LinkedIn. She left VMware in 2019 with the title of senior manager of the partner experience for worldwide partner programs. In this role, she “drove broad transformation of outdated global partner program to engage, recognize and reward partners more holistically across new and traditional business models - cloud, services and resell.”

Jason Roszak

Jason Roszak joined Microsoft in June as chief product officer of the Enterprise Management Experience group, according to his LinkedIn.

“In EMX we are helping organizations transform to create rich and secure experiences for their employees,” Roszak wrote on his LinkedIn. “I‘m thrilled to be a part of such an important mission!”

Roszak came to the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant after more than eight years with VMware. He left VMware with the title of vice president of product management.

In this role, he was “responsible for business and product strategy, product management and user experience for our UEM and Intelligence businesses” and “responsible for driving and delivering an integrated product across all facets of end-user computing including mobility, desktop management, identity, data and apps via our WS1 Cloud marketplace,” according to his LinkedIn.

Jeetu Patel

Jeetu Patel joined the board of directors of Equinix in June, according to his LinkedIn account.

Equinix is a Redwood City, Calif.-based data center and colocation provider. Patel is also a Cisco executive vice president overseeing the security and collaboration business units. He has been with Cisco for more than two years, according to his LinkedIn.

Patel also serves on the board of commercial real estate services company JLL. His resume includes more than five years with Box. He left the company in 2020 with the title of chief product officer and chief strategy officer, according to his LinkedIn.

Carol Wilder

Dell Technologies brought on Carol Wilder last month as its new vice president of integrated solutions, product, according to her LinkedIn.

She came to the Round Rock, Texas-based tech giant after more than a year with Puppet, according to her LinkedIn. She left Puppet with the title of vice president of products. In this role, she led “Product Management, UX, Corporate Research, Technical Publications and Community Engagement Function” and “transformed the teams into a customer outcome based in both on-premise software and we are embarking on Saas solutions.”

Wilder previously worked at Intel Corp. for more than four years, according to her LinkedIn. She left in 2020 with the title of senior director of product and portfolio management and strategic alliances for the data center solution group.

In this role, she “led Product management team to optimize solutions for operational lifecycle for data center customers” and used “hardware telemetry within data center industry with key partners to quickly identify infrastructure issues and proactively address operational issues,” according to her LinkedIn.

Jacqueline Morgan

Jacqueline Morgan joined VMware last month, taking on the title of vice president of industry solutions, according to a post on LinkedIn.

In this role, Morgan leads “a team of talented architects, industry SMEs, developers and strategists to build out the transformative industry solutions needed to advance farther into the next internet age,” according to her LinkedIn. “We are bringing together the VMware portfolio with the leading industry POVs to provide enterprise customers an expanded platform of critical infrastructure solutions to accelerate innovation and address their most complex information technology infrastructure needs.”

Morgan came to the Palo Alto, Calif.-based virtualization and cloud computing company after more than a year with Cognizant, according to her LinkedIn. She left Cognizant with the title of head of industry solutions, businesses development, go to market and innovation. She’s worked for Cognizant for more than three years through the years.

In this role, she was “responsible for business development and our Tech organization‘s broad-based solution/innovation capabilities, leading the evolution of the team including development, and practices of the Innovation group,” according to her LinkedIn.

She also oversaw “the team‘s support for a full lifecycle of solution & innovation efforts including the support of high impact innovation proposals, creation of the Tech BU strategic solution portfolio, cross enterprise solution architecture, detailed solution/innovation design, and integration with multi service line enterprise technical architectures,” according to her LinkedIn.

Morgan’s resume includes more than four years with Accenture. She left the company in 2020 with the title of senior director of solutions go to market, business development and innovation for software and platforms, according to her LinkedIn.

Sid Earley

IBM subsidiary Red Hat hired Sid Earley in June as vice president of ecosystem transformation, according to a tweet.

Earley came to the Raleigh, N.C.-based open source software services provider after more than 6 years with Tech Data and its successor, TD Synnex, according to his LinkedIn. He left TD with the title of vice president of vendor solutions.

In this role, he directed, managed and led “strategic activities including P&L for the TD SYNNEX HPE, Cohesity, Nutanix, and Hitachi Vantara businesses, sales and marketing management and operations, policy and program implementation, and financial management” and provided “leadership to a team of sales, operations, product marketing, technical, and other cross-functional personnel operating together to grow the TD SYNNEX Advanced Solutions business,” according to his LinkedIn.

Before Tech Data, Earley worked for about five years at VMware, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company in 2016 with the title of senior director of global partner solutions.

In this role, he “built and executed comprehensive technical and business plans and brought to market value added, repeatable, cloud-based (public, private, hybrid) product and solution offerings” and ”developed and executed (a) global go-to-market plan,” according to his LinkedIn.

Mathew Hein

Last month, Mathew Hein joined Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) as chief strategy officer and senior vice president of corporate development, according to his LinkedIn.

He “will be responsible for advancing the company’s strategy across an expanded market for high-performance and adaptive computing solutions and will work closely with the AMD executive team to accelerate the company’s next phase of growth,” according to a company statement on the appointment. Hein will report to AMD CEO Lisa Su.

Hein came to the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker after more than seven years with DBO Partners, according to his LinkedIn. He left the investment banking firm with the title of partner and served as lead adviser to AMD on past opportunities.

Motti Finkelstein

Motti Finkelstein joined Intel in June as corporate vice president and digital transformation officer, according to his LinkedIn.

Finkelstein came to the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker after more than a year with BMO Financial Group, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company with the title of chief technology officer for capital markets.

He previously worked at McKinsey & Co. for more than a year, according to his LinkedIn. He left the consulting firm in 2021 with the title of senior adviser.

His resume includes more than 18 years at Citi, according to his LinkedIn. He left Citi in 2020 with the title of chief technology officer for the Americas and managing director of global strategy planning.

Steve Scarlett

In June, Steve Scarlett returned to Ericsson, taking on the role of chief technology officer of hyperscale cloud providers, according to his LinkedIn.

Scarlett came to the Sweden-based telecommunications giant after more than a year with Capgemini, according to his LinkedIn. He left Capgemini with the title of North America chief technology officer for the communications industry.

He previously worked at Ericsson for more than two years, leaving in 2012 with the title of director of business development and architecture for the AT&T global account, according to his LinkedIn. In this role, he worked on macro and small cell mobile backhaul, mobile packet core and broadband access.

In Scarlett’s time away from Ericsson, he also worked at Nokia for more than eight years, according to his LinkedIn.

He left Nokia in 2021 with the title of head of technology, according to his LinkedIn. In this role, he was “driving the software transformation of the telecommunications network - NFV, SDN, Containers and all of the supporting technologies and business processes.”

Julius Farrington

Julius Farrington joined Salesforce in June as vice president of Americas field marketing for its Tableau subsidiary, according to his LinkedIn.

Farrington came to the San Francisco-based customer relationship management tools provider after more than two years with Amazon Web Services, according to his LinkedIn. He left AWS with the title head of enterprise segments and audience marketing.

In this role, he was the “Americas Marketing Leader for our Enterprise, ISV, Private Equity, and Digital Native businesses along with leading ABM and Audience Marketing,” according to LinkedIn.

His resume includes more than seven years with SAP, according to LinkedIn. Farrington left SAP in 2020 with the title of head of field and partner marketing for the South.

Christian Slike

Last month, Christian Slike joined Deloitte as a vice president of marketing, according to his LinkedIn.

In this role, he will be a “marketing Leader for Deloitte Digital, Customer & Marketing and Human Capital practices,” according to his LinkedIn.

Slike came to the London-based global systems integrator after more than two years with Persistent Systems, according to his LinkedIn. He left Persistent with the title of vice president of industry marketing.

In this role, he led “Industry Marketing across the organization, including Healthcare & Life Sciences (HLS), Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI), Software and Telecom & Media - contributing to overall industry quarterly revenue growth every quarter of 2020 - 2022,” according to his LinkedIn.

His resume includes more than 16 years with IBM, according to LinkedIn. He left LinkedIn in 2019 with the title of marketing and communication synergy team lead for IBM acquired and divested organizations.

David Newell

In June, David Newell was hired by EPAM Systems as vice president of technology solutions, according to his LinkedIn.

Newell came to the Newtown, Pa.-based company – No. 23 on CRN’s 2022 Solution Provider 500 – after more than four years with Capgemini, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company with the title of delivery architect director.

His resume includes more than five years with EY, according to LinkedIn. Newell left the company in 2017 with the title of associate director and enterprise architect.

Tony Gomez

Tony Gomez joined Huntress in June as vice president of sales, according to his LinkedIn.

In this role, he leads “the sales organization, developing and managing a team of highly motivated Sales Leaders, Account Executives and Sales Development Representatives” and is “responsible for increasing the company’s revenue and market share by crafting a GTM sales strategy,” according to his LinkedIn.

Gomez came to Ellicott City, Md.-based cybersecurity company aimed at managed service providers after more than a year with Cloudflare, according to his LinkedIn. He left Cloudflare with the title of head of sales development for the Americas.

His resume includes more than four years with Checkmarx, according to his LinkedIn. Gomez left the company in 2020 with the title of director of sales operations for North America.

Ken Liang

Peraton hired Ken Liang last month as vice president of IT operations and infrastructure, according to his LinkedIn.

Liang came to the Herndon, Va.-based company – No. 20 on CRN’s 2022 Solution Provider 500 – after more than 19 years with Eaton, according to his LinkedIn. He left Eaton with the title of director of IT and the infrastructure center of excellence.

In this role, he provided “executive leadership for the Infrastructure organization, working with the CIO and IT Senior Leadership Team, making key decisions for our technology portfolio, organizational needs and influencing our operating model to improve operational excellence,” according to his LinkedIn.

Brian Swisher

Last month, Advizex brought on Brian Swisher as executive vice president, according to his LinkedIn.

Swisher came to the Independence, Ohio-based company – a member of CRN’s 2022 Managed Service Provider 500 – after about a year with Deep Instinct, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company with the title of national sales director for state, local and education government agencies.

Before Deep Instinct, Swisher was at Splunk for more than two years, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company in 2021 with the title of region sales director.

Swisher’s resume includes more than 15 years with Cisco, according to his LinkedIn. He left Cisco in 2021 with the title of regional sales manager.

Sal Franco

Sal Franco returned to PTC last month as vice president and global internet of things (IoT) sales leader, according to his LinkedIn.

Franco came back to the Boston-based industrial workplace services provider after more than a year with TraceLink, according to his LinkedIn. He left TraceLink with the title of vice president of sales for the Americas.

In this role with TraceLink, he served as the Americas “sales leader (North and South America) responsible for driving Tracelink‘’s growth for the entire region” and managed “a team of RVP’s and sales executives focused on selling multi-tenant SaaS supply chain solutions (Platform for Multi-Enterprise Collaboration).” He was “responsible for both Revenue and Cost (P&L), with direct responsibility for sales attainment, strategy, and field execution,” according to his LinkedIn.

Franco left PTC in 2020 after more than six years with the company. He left with the title of vice president of global manufacturing sales, according to his LinkedIn.

While away from PTC, he spent a year at Infor. He left the company in 2021 with the title of vice president and sales leader of the strategic major account team. His services included “ERP for both Discrete Manufacturing and Process/Distribution, HCM, WFM, EAM, CPQ, PLM, MES, & Supply Chain,” according to his LinkedIn.

John Steinhauer

Diversified hired John Steinhauer last month as senior vice president of workplace sales, according to his LinkedIn.

Steinhauer came to the Kenilworth, N.J.-based company – No. 46 on CRN’s 2022 Solution Provider 500 – after less than a year with Kinly. He left the company with the title of senior vice president and head of sales and marketing for the Americas, according to his LinkedIn.

He previously worked at Barco for more than a year, according to his LinkedIn. He left in 2021 with the title of vice president of entertainment for the Americas.

In this role, Steinhauer worked on the imaging company’s segments for live events, rental and staging, audio and visual and Pro-AV and virtual reality, “leading Sales and Pre-sales teams in the Americas,” according to his LinkedIn.

Before Barco, Steinhauer worked at audio-visual company Whitlock for more than seven years, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company in 2020 with the title of executive vice president.

At Whitlock, he led the “company-wide sales effort focused on enterprise customers, collaboration technology, design, integration and support to Fortune 500 global customer base” and “led sales growth through successful recapitalization with Marlin Equity Partners in 2019.” Marlin merged Whitlock with AVI-SPL in 2020.

Ruben Chacon

Ruben Chacon joined Eaton in June as global vice president and chief information security officer, according to his LinkedIn.

Chacon came to the power management company – which has a headquarters in Dublin and administrative center in Beachwood, Ohio – after more than two years with CDW, according to his LinkedIn. He left CDW with the title of vice president and chief information officer.

Before CDW, Chacon worked at Constellation Brands for more than a year. He left the company in 2019 with the same title as his CDW role, according to his LinkedIn.

Casandra Brice

N-Able hired Casandra Brice in June, giving her the title of vice president of global customer success, according to her LinkedIn.

Brice came to the Austin, Texas-based customer systems monitoring company aimed at managed service providers after more than six years with Ultimate Software and its successor, Ultimate Kronos Group, according to her LinkedIn. She left the company with the title of vice president of customer success for benefit software services.

Her resume includes less than a year at Amazon, leaving in 2015 as a senior manager, and about nine years with ADP, according to her LinkedIn. She left ADP in 2015 with the title of vice president of client loyalty.

At Amazon, Brice “led a Product (5) & Service Operations team (~72) responsible for creating a Voice of the Seller (VOC) Product to enhance Amazon’s 3P Seller experience,” according to her LinkedIn.

At ADP, she “led an Executive Relationship Management team of 40 employees focused on HCM SaaS services” and directed “day to day Solution Optimization, Strategic Consulting, Customer Retention & Up-sale efforts for $500MM,” according to her LinkedIn.

Jennifer Orr

In June, Jennifer Orr joined Extreme Networks as vice president of Americas channels, according to her LinkedIn.

She came to the San Jose, Calif.-based networking products provider after more than two years with Mitel, according to her LinkedIn. She left Mitel with the title of vice president of master agents.

Orr’s resume includes more than two years with Serenova, according to her LinkedIn. She left the contact center services provider with the title of vice president of channels.

Sean J. Kerins

Arrow Electronics promoted Sean J. Kerins to president and CEO in June, according to his LinkedIn.

Kerins previously served as chief operating officer of the Centennial, Colo.-based distributor. He’s worked at Arrow for about 15 years.

Previously he served as president of Arrow’s global enterprise computing solutions business starting in 2014, and prior to that was president of the North American region for that business.

Before joining Arrow in 2007, Kerins spent ten years at EMC in sales and professional services roles, held senior roles at Coopers & Lybrand Consulting, and was an industrial engineer at General Motors.

Renée Lawrence

Renée Lawrence joined VPLS in June as vice president of global marketing, according to her LinkedIn account.

Lawrence came to the Los Angeles-based company – a member of CRN’s 2022 Managed Service Provider 500 – after more than four years with Burwood Group, according to her LinkedIn. She left Burwood with the title of head of marketing.

Before Burwood, she worked at Ingram Micro for more than two years. She left the distributor in 2018 with the title of director of product and solutions marketing, according to her LinkedIn.

Seshi Vanguru

In June, Trianz hired Seshi Vanguru as its new chief revenue officer for enterprise digital transformation (DT) services and digital product engineering services, according to a company statement.

In this role, Vanguru “will scale our Digital Services business with our IP-led services model and help clients transform faster and better,” according to the statement.

Vanguru came to the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company – a member of CRN’s 2022 Managed Service Provider 500 – after more than two years with Brillio. He left Brillio with the title of managing partner, according to his LinkedIn.

In this role, Vanguru was “a P&L leader responsible for a third of Brillio’s business,” according to his LinkedIn. “

“I helped turn around a flailing region into the fastest growing business unit for within Brillio delivering well over 100% growth” year over year, according to his LinkedIn. “I am also responsible for establishing and expanding our presence in select industries by acquiring flagship customers in Life Sciences, Healthcare, Banking, Telecom and Media.”

Before Brillio, Vanguru worked at HCL Technologies for more than six years, according to his LinkedIn. He left HCL in 2019 with the title of head of new business, telecommunications, media and entertainment.

Keith Marra

Keith Marra joined TierPoint in June, taking on the title of vice president of solutions engineering, according to his LinkedIn account.

Before coming to the St. Louis-based company – No. 71 on CRN’s 2022 Solution Provider 500 – he worked a contract position at Zanaris, according to his LinkedIn. His title was vice president of enterprise and solution architecture.

Marra worked at Sungard Availability Services for more than 14 years. He left Sungard in 2021 with the title of vice president of global solutions engineering, according to his LinkedIn. He came to Sungard with the 2007 acquisition of VeriCenter.

Michael Dietze

Thrive hired Michael Dietze last month as vice president of channel sales, according to his LinkedIn.

Dietze came to the Foxborough, Mass.-based company – a member of CRN’s 2022 Managed Service Provider 500 – after more than six years with TierPoint, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company with the title of sales alliances director.

He came to TierPoint in 2015 with the $575 million acquisition of Windstream’s data center assets. Dietze had joined Windstream in 2012 as a channel manager, according to his LinkedIn.

Siddhartha Agarwal

In June, Siddhartha Agarwal joined Databricks as vice president of product management, according to his LinkedIn.

In this role, he will “create & build their outbound product management team” and help “data teams harness the power of data + AI to solve the world‘s toughest problems, increasing awareness of the product portfolio, and growing market share,” according to his LinkedIn.

Agarwal came to the San Francisco-based data analytics company after about three years with Google, according to his LinkedIn. He left Google with the title of managing director of software-as-a-service partnerships and co-innovation at Google Cloud.

In this role, he was “responsible for driving revenue growth through recruiting and managing Google‘s largest SaaS partnerships” and “co-innovating, building and taking to market joint solutions with these partners leveraging Google’s Ads Platform, Search, and Cloud services,” according to his LinkedIn.

His resume includes more than five years with Oracle, according to his LinkedIn. Agarwal left Oracle in 2019 with the title of group vice president of product management and strategy for the Oracle Cloud Platform.

Pete Bell

Otava hired Pete Bell in June as senior vice president of sales, according to his LinkedIn.

Bell joined the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company – a member of CRN’s 2022 Managed Service Provider 500 – after more than four years with Faction, according to his LinkedIn. He left Faction with the title of senior vice president of sales.

Prior to Faction, Bell worked for about four years with Internap, according to his LinkedIn. He left Internap in 2018 with the title of senior vice president of global sales.

In this role, he was “responsible for growing INAP‘s high performance IT Infrastructure business, managing the direct & channel sales teams, solution engineering and sales support organization,” according to his LinkedIn.

Tim Benroeck

Tim Benroeck joined Snowflake in June as industry chief technology officer for retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG), according to his LinkedIn.

Benroeck came to the Bozeman, Mont.-based data analytics and cloud computing company after more than eight years with Microsoft, according to his LinkedIn. He left Microsoft with the title of chief cloud solutions architect for strategic retail and CPG.

His resume includes about a year with 10th Magnitude, which is now part of Cognizant. Benroeck left 10th Magnitude in 2013 with the title of principal cloud solutions architect, according to his LinkedIn.

Curt Ohrt

Last month, Oracle hired Curt Ohrt as senior vice president of health care platforms, according to his LinkedIn.

In this role, he is responsible for “building, owning, and operating the healthcare platforms that enable us to make the world healthier while also reducing healthcare costs per capita,” according to his LinkedIn.

In June, Oracle completed its acquisition of health care information system provider Cerner.

Ohrt came to the Austin, Texas-based database and technology giant after more than 18 years with Amazon, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company with the title of vice president of software development for Amazon Web Services’ data center software.

In this role, he led “the AWS Supply Chain, Directed Work, Hardware Monitoring and Vetting, and Datacenter Systems organizations comprised of about 1,500 folks,” according to his LinkedIn.

Among his accomplishments at AWS, Ohrt “enabled AWS Service owners to run at a higher utilization, saving over $200MM/year” and “improved ‘Deliver to Promise’ success rate from < 30% to > 75% while maintaining SLAs and lowering carrying costs,” according to his LinkedIn.