All Posts Tagged With: "industry moves"

Industry Moves: VMware Taps Tod Nielsen For Chief Operating Officer Role

VMware announced today the appointment of Tod Nielsen to the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer. Nielsen will report directly to President and Chief Executive Officer Paul Maritz.

7Jan2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Industry Moves: Maurizio Carli Joins VMware As General Manager EMEA

VMware announced today the appointment of Maurizio Carli as General Manager of VMware’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Carli is responsible for strategic planning, business operations and management of key functions for the region, including sales, channels, services and marketing. He will report directly to Carl Eschenbach, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations, for VMware.

18Dec2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Industry Moves: MokaFive CEO Out After Only A Year

Desktop virtualization company MokaFive saw CEO Bill Demas leave over the Summer to join advertising startup Turn. The experienced Dale Fuller has replaced him, which speaks volumes about MokaFive’s ambition.

18Dec2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Industry Moves: Susan Roberts Is The New Senior Director of Marketing For Virtual Iron

After Virtual Iron saw his longtime marketing executive Mike Grandinetti leave for his own venture in May, it went looking for someone to replace him, and it now looks as if they’ve found just the woman for the job.

Susan Roberts will replace Grandinetti as Senior Director of Marketing, after a career at Dassault Systems where she was Director of Global Branding and Marketing Communications and Paxonix where she was Director of Marketing.

15Dec2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Industry Moves: VMware And Virtual Iron Lose Key Executives

VMware has lost a key executive today with the departure of Nand Mulchandani, former Senior Director of Security Products, who has decided to take on a job as CEO for OpenDNS instead of staying on at the troubled virtualization leader.

Virtual Iron has lost its Director of Corporate Marketing Tim Walsh, who started his own consulting business.

24Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Industry Moves: Stephen Pollack Joins Embotics Advisory Board

Embotics today announced the appointment of Stephen Pollack to its Advisory Board. Stephen Pollack is a recognized leader in the virtualization industry who founded PlateSpin (acquired by Novell earlier this year). With the addition of Pollack, the Advisory Board will continue to help guide Embotics’ direction, organization and strategy for product and company growth.

19Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | Continued

Industry Moves: Tony Asaro Out As Chief Strategy Officer For Virtual Iron

According to Alessandro, Virtual Iron just lost its Chief Strategy Officer Tony Asaro, although it seems he’s remaining a Senior Advisor to the company. We reported on his hiring nearly 8 months ago.

10Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Industry Moves: Rashied Akrum And Carina Rozendaal Join InstallFree

InstallFree today announced that long time Application and Desktop Virtualization veterans Rashied Akrum and Carina Rozendaal will join InstallFree as the Vice President EMEA and Senior Director of Sales & Marketing EMEA respectively.

3Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Roger Baskerville Leaves Citrix / XenSource

Roger Baskerville has left Citrix, where he was Regional Director Northern Europe Server Virtualization to join Vizioncore as Vice President for EMEA.

2Nov2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Industry Moves: Promotions at Quest Software

Quest Software has appointed Doug Garn as the company’s CEO, and Vinny Smith to the newly created position of executive chairman of its board of directors.

10Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Industry Moves: DataCore Promotes Christian Hagen to VP Sales for the Americas & EMEA

DataCore Software has appointed Christian Hagen as its new Vice President of Sales for the Americas & EMEA. Hagen, the former Vice President of Sales and Partner Development EMEA, is now also responsible for all DataCore sales and channel activities in the Americas.

8Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Industry Moves: Kathryn Rose Joins Hyperic As CFO, Ron Oglesby Leaves Glasshouse for Dell

Hyperic today announced it has named Kathryn Rose as chief financial officer. Glasshouse lost its Director of Virtualization, Ron Oglesby, after just 1 year.

7Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued
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