30 Notable IT Executive Moves: January 2022

January saw key hires at Intel, Salesforce, Microsoft, NetApp, Ahead and Leidos.

A new NetApp chief product officer, a new Ahead chief information officer and a new Leidos chief security officer were among the first major executive hires of 2022.

Intel, Salesforce and Microsoft were among the other tech giants to make executive hires during the month as companies invest in resources for sales, technology and partners.

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 did fall in December by 161,000, totaling 4.3 million quits, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The quits rate remained at 2.9 percent.

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

Alyssa Fitzpatrick

Intel hired former Microsoft channel executive Alyssa Fitzpatrick to lead global partner sales as the chipmaker’s Intel Partner Alliance program enters its second year.

Fitzpatrick joined the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company in January as vice president and general manager of global partner sales, according to her LinkedIn profile. She reports to John Kalvin, Intel’s vice president and general manager of global partners and support.

Prior to joining Intel, Fitzpatrick was general manager of worldwide partner sales for Microsoft, where she worked from 2016 to January of this month. On her LinkedIn profile, Fitzpatrick said she led a global team at Microsoft that was responsible for driving more than $650 million in annual revenue for Azure cloud services through partners. While there, she worked “across all channels,” including global system integrators, MSPs, telecommunications carriers and advisory firms.

This is not Fitzpatrick’s first time at Intel. From 2011 to 2014, she was senior vice president of worldwide alliances at cybersecurity vendor McAfee while it was owned by Intel, which sold the business in 2016 after six years of ownership. After her time there, she was senior vice president of the global partner organization for CA Technologies, which is now owned by Broadcom.

Joe Quaglia

Trace3 hired Joe Quaglia as president in January, according to a company statement.

At the Irvine, Calif.-based company – No. 41 on CRN’s 2021 Solution Provider 500 – Quaglia “will work alongside regional sales teams to expand sales and solution capabilities to support Trace3 clients and partners.”

Quaglia previously served as president of the Americas and global services for Tech Data Corp. He led “sales, operations, and client success across the region and globally,” according to Trace3.

He worked at Tech Data for more than 14 years, starting in 2006 as vice president of sales for the East and government, according to his LinkedIn.

Brooke Cunningham

Brooke Cunningham, a seasoned executive with years of channel marketing experience, has joined Datto as the managed services platform and data protection developer’s new chief marketing officer.

To join the Norwalk, Conn.-based cybersecurity and data backup company, Cunningham left software company Splunk, where she spent five years in partner marketing, most recently as area vice president of global partner marketing and experience.

Prior to Splunk, Cunningham was at business analytics platform developer Qlik for more than four years, including a stint as vice president of global partner marketing. She also spent just under a year at CA Technologies and just under three years at SAP, where she had lead roles in marketing.

Cunningham replaces Matthew Richards, who served at Norwalk, Conn.-based Datto for just over five years, including nearly four years as chief marketing officer, before leaving in July 2021 to join Aqua Security as the Burlington, Mass.-based company‘s chief marketing office.

Saket Pradhan

Saket Pradhan joined HashiCorp last month as vice president of global go-to-market strategy and planning, according to his LinkedIn account.

Before joining the San Francisco-based company, Pradhan worked at Dell Technologies for about 10 years, according to his LinkedIn. He left Dell with the title of vice president of global channel sales.

Prior to joining Dell, Pradhan worked at McKinsey & Co. for about five years, according to his LinkedIn. He left in 2012 with the title of engagement manager.

Rotimi Olumide

Rotimi Olumide joined Salesforce in January as vice president of health care and life sciences, according to his LinkedIn.

Before joining the San Francisco-based customer relationship management software provider, Olumide worked at Microsoft for about 20 years, according to his LinkedIn.

His most recent role with the tech giant was digital transformation sales leader. Olumide was “responsible for driving cultural and organizational change with some of Microsoft‘s largest Healthcare customers” and helped “organizations leverage Microsoft’s Cloud and Surface Solutions to enhancing patient engagement, empowering health team collaboration, and improving clinical and operational insights,” according to his LinkedIn.

He started at Microsoft in 2002 as an online advertising and channel marketing manager.

Andrea Chin

Ingram Micro hired Andrea Chin in January as executive director of the digital program management office, according to her LinkedIn.

Before joining the Irvine, Calif.-based distributor, Chin spent 25-plus years in strategy, program execution and business transformation roles with The Estee Lauder Cos. and Citigroup.

Her career highlights include managing Estee Lauder’s IT portfolio book of work, rolling out Salesforce to 45 Estee Lauder markets and launching Google Wallet and near-field communication (NFC) mobile payments for Citibank, according to Ingram Micro.

She worked at Estee Lauder for about six years, leaving with the title of executive director, according to her LinkedIn. She worked at Citibank for about 11 years, leaving in 2015 with the title of senior vice president of operations and technology transformation.

Ken LeBlanc

Ahead hired Ken LeBlanc in January as chief information officer, according to his LinkedIn.

Before joining the Chicago-based consultancy, LeBlanc worked at EPAM Systems for about a year. He held the title of vice president of technology solutions

LeBlanc worked for more than three years on and off at CIO Sensei as a partner. He left CIO Sensei last year, according to his LinkedIn.

He worked as CIO and senior vice president at Iron Mountain for about a year, according to his LinkedIn. He left in 2018. While with Iron Mountain, he helped “the team pivot from a reactive, back-office function to a customer focused, service-driven organization committed to accelerating business outcomes” by “ensuring the global workforce had the required tools and capabilities, while also modernizing the IT infrastructure, services, and business solutions required for the company‘s next phase of growth.”

LeBlanc also worked at EMC Corp. for about 16 years, according to his LinkedIn. He left in 2016 as vice president of digitization and service management. In this role, he was “[r]esponsible for leading and accelerating the global organization’s ‘IT as a Service’ strategy, ensuring cost transparency, delivery speed and quality, scalable process governance, and trusted IT-BU partnerships.”

Kevin Sutton

Kevin Sutton joined Microsoft in January as chief technology officer of the telecommunications service line, according to his LinkedIn.

Sutton and his team help telco customers with digital transformations through “architecting and deploying Azure cloud solutions, mobile edge computing, AI, and many other disruptive technologies,” according to his LinkedIn.

Sutton previously worked at Nokia on and off for more than 26 years. He left the company with the title of chief wireless officer, according to his LinkedIn. In this role, he worked “across Nokia‘s expert R&D base and with our customers to ensure common vision for products and technology, then confirm implementation of needed software and hardware components.”

He worked at Sprint for about three years, leaving in 2017, according to his LinkedIn. He left with the title of vice president of quality assurance and labs. In this role, he led “the team operating and supporting Sprint‘s nationwide network of innovation, development, and production network mirror laboratories” and led “end to end quality processes, metrics, and operations in the technology and network organizations.”

Ada Agrait

Ada Agrait joined SAP last month as senior vice president of marketing, according to her LinkedIn. In this role, she is “responsible for digital demand and end-to-end ecosystem to enable customers, partners and prospects.”

Before joining the Germany-based tech giant, Agrait worked for about 17 years at Microsoft, according to her LinkedIn. She left the company with the title of vice president of commercial marketing. In this role, she was “responsible for driving integrated marketing inclusive of brand, digital marketing, acquisition, social and events for Microsoft’s commercial portfolio.”

Agrait also worked for about five years at EY, according to her LinkedIn. She left the company in 2004 with the title of associate director, according to her LinkedIn. In this position, she “managed marketing programs for Tier 1 customers, new brand research and positioning globally.”

Hong Choing

Oracle hired Hong Choing in January as vice president of independent software vendor (ISV) strategic partnerships.

In this role at the Austin, Texas-based tech giant, Choing will “build programs and partnerships with strategics partners (ISV, MSP) for Oracle platform serving customers both on-premises, hybrid, and public clouds,” according to his LinkedIn.

Before joining Oracle, Choing worked at Alibaba Group for more than three years, according to his LinkedIn. His most recent role was head of global partner ecosystem and strategic alliances. In this position, he and his team worked to forge “strategic alliances with global ISV and GSI to build an ecosystem for Alibaba Cloud with our partners to better serve mutual customers worldwide.”

Choing previously worked at Microsoft for more than 13 years, according to his LinkedIn. His left in 2018 with the title of director of partner development and cloud strategy as part of Microsoft’s One Commercial Partner team.

In this role, he helped “set field execution strategy, led cross functional teams to growth Azure Cloud revenue, and personally drove net new customer and partner (ISV & SI) adoptions through sales engagement, partner development, customer evangelism & applied research activities,” according to his LinkedIn.

Carmen True

Carmen True joined Qualcomm in January as vice president of marketing for channel marketing, sales enablement and ecosystem development, according to her LinkedIn.

In this role with the San Diego-based chipmaker, True is “responsible for Channel Marketing across Retail, Indirect, Commercial, Enterprise and Education”and works on “Sales and Ecosystem Enablement for Product and Technology Training as well as our Partner and Developer Communities,” according to her LinkedIn.

True previously worked at Hewlett-Packard for about 25 years, according to her LinkedIn. He left HP with the title of vice president of print marketing worldwide go-to-market.

In this role, she facilitated “marketing priorities for HP‘s $40B Print business” and aligned “Marketing objectives, priorities and budget funding across Marketing and Sales organizations in all 10 global markets,” according to her LinkedIn. She also had to “drive performance of strategic growth programs such as HP’s Ink Subscription business and our new go to market model of HP+ Smart Printing Ecosystem.”

Dmitry Belous

EPAM Systems hired Dmitry Belous last month as vice president of technology solutions, according to his LinkedIn.

Before joining the publicly traded Newtown, Pa.-based consulting company, Belous worked at Netcracker Technology for more than 21 years, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company with the title of executive vice president of global operations. In this role, he led “the global Finance function, including FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis), Accounting, and BPM (Business Profitability Management) organizations, replacing the previous CFO and retaining all other functions (MS, QA, CS, WFM).”

He “refocused the global customer solution delivery teams on company’s key financial goals” and developed and delivered a “series of trainings on KFIs (key financial indicators) to hundreds of global customer-facing resources,” according to his LinkedIn. Belous also “restructured the corporate PMO (Program Management Office) and IT MSO (Managed Service Operations) functions.”

Mark Hughes

In January, Mark Hughes joined Insight Enterprises – No. 14 on CRN’s 2021 Solution Provider 500 – as vice president of ecommerce, according to his LinkedIn.

Hughes comes to the Tempe, Ariz.-based company after about a year with artificial intelligence-powered search company Lucidworks, according to his LinkedIn. He left the company with the title of senior vice president of services.

In 2020, Lucidworks acquired the ecommerce services company Cirrus10 that Hughes co-founded 10 years earlier. He served as vice president of delivery and operations at Cirrus10.

Harv Bhela

Harv Bhela joined NetApp in January in the newly created role of chief product officer, according to a company statement.

At the San Jose-based storage and data services provider, Bhela will report to CEO George Kurian.

Bhela worked at Microsoft for about 25 years, most recently serving as corporate vie president of the Microsoft 365 security, compliance and management business, according to NetApp. He grew the business to more than $10 billion in annual revenue.

In the summer, CRN reported that Bhela was supposed to assume the responsibilities of Brad Anderson, who left Microsoft as corporate vice president of commercial management experiences and joined experience management application firm Qualtrics.

Bhela also helped to build Microsoft’s Exchange business, turned Office 365 into a leading productivity cloud and helped to launch the Windows 10 operating system, according to NetApp.

He joined Microsoft in 1997 after the acquisition of Intersé and worked as a development lead for Site Server, according to his LinkedIn.

Mark Janzen

Mark Janzen joined A5 Corp., a managed services provider that is a Salesforce and Oracle partner, last month as vice president of the MuleSoft and integrations practice, according to his LinkedIn.

Before joining the Pleasanton, Calif.-based MSP, Janzen worked at Slalom for more than two years, according to his LinkedIn. He served as global MuleSoft practice area director.

Before Slalom, Janzen worked at Bits In Glass for about six months, leaving in 2019 as director of pre-sales for the MuleSoft systems integration practice, according to his LinkedIn. His resume includes more than nine years on and off with IBM.

He left IBM most recently in 2017 with the title of national technical sales manager for integration in the company’s systems middleware division. In this role, Janzen “focused on API Management, Integration as a Service, On Premise Integration, and Secure Gateway Technology” in Canada, according to his LinkedIn.

Bay Young

Last month, Bay Young joined Fortinet as vice president of strategic accounts for the Americas, according to his LinkedIn.

Young comes to the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based cybersecurity company after serving as a leader of CRN Elite 150 managed service provider vCore Technology Partners. He worked at vCore for more than three years, leaving in 2020 with the title of president and chief operating officer, according to his LinkedIn. In this role, he would “build GTM plans, take care of Clients, develop people and teams, set strategies and execute.”

He also worked at EMC for more than 20 years, according to his LinkedIn. He left in 2016 with the title of senior vice president of west enterprise. In this role, he “directed all customer-facing functions for the world’s leading provider of hardware, software services across enterprise accounts in 10 western-territory states” with a focus on architecture and modern data center infrastructure.

Brooks Borcherding

Brooks Borcherding officially joined Atos in January with the acquisition of cloud services company Cloudreach.

Atos is based in France. Cloudreach is based in London. Borcherding, the CEO of Cloudreach, is based in Connecticut, according to his LinkedIn. Cloudreach is a partner with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

Before joining Cloudreach in 2019, Borcherding served as CEO of LiveAction, according to his LinkedIn. He previously worked at Datto for more than two years, leaving in 2018 with the title of chief revenue officer. In this role, he led Datto’s “next phase of rapid growth including expansion into new geographies, increased penetration into the core SMB markets, and extension into new growth segments.”

He previously served as president and CEO of Navisite and senior vice president of enterprise and carrier sales at Time Warner Cable, according to his LinkedIn.

Naveen Zutshi

Databricks hired Naveen Zutshi in January as chief information officer, according to a company statement.

Zutshi joined the San Francisco-based data services company from Palo Alto Networks, where he worked for about six years as CIO, according to his LinkedIn. In this role, he “delivered a new platform for subscription based quoting and consumption based billing (over 800M in ARR transacted)” and “established a common data lake on GCP and established enterprise wide dashboards and insights into Customer 360, ARR, churn, telemetry, etc,” among other achievements.

He previously worked at Gap for more than five years, leaving in 2015 with the title of senior vice president of technology at Gap, according to his LinkedIn.

At the clothing retailer, he “helped scale Gap‘s E-Commerce business by transitioning to cloud based infrastructure” and enabled “Omni Channel, Store2Cloud, SD-WAN implementation in 1200 stores, Wifi in all stores, data center modernization, store and E-Commerce security, DevOps function, and bringing engineering capabilities in house,” according to his LinkedIn.

Padmaja Vrudhula

Padmaja Vrudhula is now vice president of industry vertical workloads at Snowflake, according to her LinkedIn.

At the Bozeman, Mont.-based data services vendor, Vrudhula and her team “develop solutions across multiple domains: workload migrations, AI/ML, Data Clean Rooms, and a slew of other innovative offerings designed to deliver value to Snowflake‘s customers,” according to her LinkedIn.

She previously worked at VMware for about 10 years, according to her LinkedIn. She most recently worked as an industry innovation executive in the office of the chief technology officer.

Vrudhula worked at Pivotlink for more than two years, leaving in 2012 as senior vice president of engineering, services and product strategy in the office of the CTO, according to her LinkedIn.

Greg Blattner

Computer Design & Integration (CDI) hired Greg Blattner last month as vice president of managed services sales, according to his LinkedIn.

Blattner joined the New York-based consulting firm – No. 61 on CRN’s 2021 Solution Provider 500 – from Presidio, according to his LinkedIn. He worked at Presidio for about a year, leaving with the title of senior account manager.

He worked at Agio for about seven years, leaving last year with the title of executive director of business development, according to his LinkedIn. He worked at Thomson Reuters for about a year in foreign exchange sales. He left the company in 2013.

Brad Adelberg

Brad Adelberg joined Google last month as vice president of engineering, data acquisition, processing and analysis, according to his LinkedIn.

Before joining the Mountain View, Calif.-based tech giant, Adelberg worked at SAP Ariba for more than a year, according to his LinkedIn. He left with the title of chief product officer.

Adelberg previously worked at Sauce Labs for more than two years, according to his LinkedIn. He left in 2020 with the title of senior vice president of engineering.

He also worked at Oracle for more than six years, according to his LinkedIn. He left in 2017 with the title of vice president of development.

At Oracle, Adelberg “ran development and product management for the data integration products - GoldenGate, ODI, EDQ, ODI cloud service, GoldenGate cloud service, and Data Integration Platform Cloud,” according to his LinkedIn.

Thomas Burns

In January, Thomas Burns joined managed services provider and Amazon Premier Consulting Partner Cascadeo as senior vice president of sales, according to his LinkedIn. Cascadeo is a member of CRN’s 2021 MSP 500.

In the newly created position with the Seattle-based MSP, Burns will work to expand customer acquisition strategies and achieve revenue targets, according to a company statement.

In 2007, Burns co-founded Green House Data, a cloud hosting and colocation organization now known as Lunavi. He served as vice president of business development.

During his time with the startup, “annual revenue scaled from $0-$40M,” according to his LinkedIn. He focused on “revenue generation strategies including new logo sales, account growth, sales engineering, product strategy, sales operations, and recruiting,” employing “direct, channel, and strategic account tactics.”

Elizabeth McIlhany

Elizabeth McIlhany joined Pax8 in January as senior vice president of product, according to a company statement.

McIlhany reports to Chief Technology Officer Scott Chasin, oversees the product development teams and leads the product vision, strategy, and implementation, according to the company.

Before joining Pax8, McIlhany served as vice president of product management at Dreamstage, a paid streaming platform for live performances.

She previously worked at Pie Insurance for more than a year, leaving in 2019 as head of product, according to her LinkedIn. She worked for more than three years at MapQuest, leaving in 2016 as head of platform products.

Timothy Burton

Timothy Burton returned to Capgemini in January, taking the title of vice president of cloud infrastructure services, according to his LinkedIn.

He previously worked for the France-based global systems integrator – No. 7 on CRN’s 2021 Solution Provider 500 – for more than three years, leaving in 2020 as North American head of cloud infrastructure services, strategy, operations, sales and delivery, according to his LinkedIn.

In this role he was “accountable for Global Delivery, Operations, Strategy & Sales for MALS/TMT/IM Market Units with a P&L of $350M,” according to his LinkedIn.

Before rejoining Capgemini, Burton worked at Microsoft for more than a year as senior directory of delivery strategy and design for customer success.

He worked at Hewlett Packard Enterprise for more than eight years, according to his LinkedIn. He left in 2017 with the title of director of large commercial and enhance accounts. In this role, he “leveraged strong business and industry expertise to spur innovation, drive performance and deliver successful business outcomes in a combined vertical portfolio producing annual billed revenue of nearly $300m” and “developed and implemented Strategy to drive Operational and Delivery Excellence in all areas of P&L though managing cost in line with revenue, automation and innovation activities to achieve margin targets.”

Terry Phillips

Leidos – No. 10 on CRN’s 2021 Solution Provider 500 – hired Terry Phillips in January as senior vice president and chief security officer, according to a company statement.

Phillips will lead, manage and direct Leidos’ global security organization and “oversee the company’s compliance with U.S. and foreign government national security standards.”

He previously served as executive director of the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations Office of Special Projects, according to Leidos. He managed “global enterprise security strategies for the U.S. Air Force, Space Force and select Department of Defense (DOD) Special Access Programs (SAP)” and protected “annual obligations of $30 Billion supporting classified research, development, testing and production.”

He previously served as counterintelligence director for U.S. European Command, according to Leidos.