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01732 759725 16 BULLETIN : PEOPLE Cohesity appoints new sales director Cohesity has announced the appointment of Andrew Fitzgerald as Sales Director for Western Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. Based in the UK, Fitzgerald will lead the company’s business development strategy across the European and African markets while empowering customers and partners to embrace the company’s modern data management capabilities. Fitzgerald brings more than 30 years of IT solution sales experience across major enterprise IT businesses including Palo Alto Networks, NetApp, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Hitachi Data Systems. www.cohesity.com Synaxon hires marketing head Synaxon is continuing its programme of investment, with the appointment of Tirene Doepel as Head of Marketing. Doepel will take control of all marketing and member recruitment programmes and be responsible for building strong relationships with key suppliers. She joins from Network Group, where she spent just over three-and-a-half years in senior marketing roles. Doepel said: “Joining at such an exciting time with the ongoing investment commitment the group is making is a fantastic opportunity. I am really looking forward to working with Mike, the rest of the UK team and our colleagues in Germany, as well as our members and supplier partners, to take the organisation forward and execute on our ambitious plans for 2020 and beyond.” www.synaxon.co.uk SentinelOne announces EMEA channel chief SentinelOne has hired cyber industry veteran Roland Stritt as Senior Director of Channel for EMEA. Stritt will be responsible for driving channel engagement across the EMEA region to deliver hyper growth and value for SentinelOne’s growing community of committed partners. The move comes in the wake of a string of positive developments for the company, including $200 million in new Series E funding, the appointment of Daniel Kollberg as VP EMEA, and the recent unveiling of the unique, AI- powered Singularity XDR platform. “As we step up our presence in EMEA with a bigger team and an even sharper focus on the quality and support of our partner base, we wanted the skills and experience of a proven channel operator like Roland,” said VP EMEA Daniel Kollberg. “ With two decades’ experience in senior sales and partner management roles at cyber and infrastructure vendors including Palo Alto Networks, Stritt joins SentinelOne from Rubrik where he was formerly Director of EMEA Channels. www.sentinelone.com Red Hat names new President and CEO Red Hat has named Paul Cormier as President and Chief Executive Officer. Cormier, who previously served as Red Hat’s President of Products and Technologies, succeeds Jim Whitehurst, who is now president of IBM. Cormier has driven more than 25 acquisitions at Red Hat, moving the company well beyond its Linux roots and helped create a full, modern IT stack based on open source innovation that disrupted the IT industry. He said: “The opportunity for Red Hat has never been bigger than it is today and I am honoured to lead the company to help our customers solve their challenges and to keep Red Hat at the forefront of innovation.” www.redhat.com Cloud veteran to lead Rubrik’s next phase of global growth Rubrik has named Dan Rogers as President. Rogers will lead Rubrik’s GTM Operations, driving the product, marketing and GTM strategy. Working in close partnership with Rubrik’s CRO, Brett Shirk, Rogers is responsible for continuing to build upon Rubrik’s momentum and accelerating the company’s next phase of global growth. He will report to co-founder and CEO Bipul Sinha. www.rubrik.com Wills re-joins Canon Tony Wills, who originally joined Canon in 1984 has returned to take up a new position as Document Solutions Business Unit Director, Canon UK and Ireland. In his new role, he will provide strategic input on taking new products and services to market, reflective of the company’s customer-centric overarching approach. He will also continue to build upon the existing deep level of operational cooperation within the business, and ensure the team is fully equipped to meet the upcoming challenges of the evolving market and customers’ requirements. Wills has over 35 years’ extensive global industry and leadership experience across both the corporate and SME environments, including time in Xerox, the reseller channel and 25 years in senior roles within Canon. For the last 11 years he has held external roles within the industry, including his latest position of Commercial & Marketing Director for a major UK reseller. www.canon.co.uk CompTIA strengthens UK executive council CompTIA has announced the addition of three new members to its executive council (EC) as well as the appointment of a new Chair. The new members include Hannah Lloyd, VP of Channel Sales at inSOC, an AI-driven platform designed to detect cyber breaches who joins as Vice-Chair, alongside Astra Duke, Customer Experience Manager, EMEA at LogicMonitor. Steven Pretlove, Technical Director of CCS IT Solutions, an existing member of the committee, has become EC Chair. www.comptia.org Tirene Doepel Roland Stritt Tony Wills