Orange Cyberdefense, the provider of cybersecurity services in Europe, has announced the appointment of Ajay Bhardwaj as UK managing director.
With decades of experience leading technology teams, Bhardwaj is tasked with increasing Orange Cyberdefense's market share in the UK, diversifying its customer portfolio, and maintaining service excellence.
Bhardwaj joins Orange Cyberdefense from Secureworks, where he spent ten years leading and growing both EMEA and global teams responsible for managed security services, incident response, security and risk consulting, and threat intelligence for large enterprise and global professional services clients. Prior to this, he held VP and director positions at Intel Security and McAfee, working mainly with professional services firms.
-Comms365, a provider of advanced internet connectivity solutions, has named Will Kennedy as chief revenue officer.
With a sales career spanning over 25 years, Kennedy’s experience will help Comms365 achieve the next stage of its growth strategy.
His previous leadership experience in driving growth in similar vertical markets includes Daisy, Vaioni, Intercity, and Pipex - where he previously worked alongside members of Comms365’s current leadership team John Whitty, Mike van Bunnens, and Shaun Nicholls.
-Black Box, the digital infrastructure solution provider, has appointed Jai Venkat as the company’s chief revenue officer in the Americas. Venkat will lead revenue strategy and execution, driving growth, bolstering account management, and helping to accelerate revenue across all industry verticals and horizontal practices.
He will report directly to Black Box CEO Sanjeev Verma and will be a member of the executive leadership team. His appointment is part of Black Box’s broader strategic investment in refining its go-to-market strategy and strengthening leadership across key industry sectors and service lines to drive growth.
-StorMagic has brought in its new chief executive officer Susan Odle, following a “record-breaking fiscal year” that saw “600% qualified sales pipeline growth”.
Odle previously served as founder and CEO of 8020CS, COO of BDO Lixar, and VP of operations at both GFI Software and Youi.TV.
As one of the few female CEOs in enterprise IT, at StorMagic Odle will be responsible for driving the business’ success in helping its customers address the “financial and operational dilemmas” at or near the edge, “amplified by the challenges” resulting from Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, said StorMagic.
-Checkmarx has named Jonathan Rende as its chief product officer (CPO). With his extensive leadership experience and deep understanding of software product development, AI and machine learning, Rende is said to be “uniquely positioned” to offer strong vision and direction as the company continues its journey of innovation in application security.
He previously headed product development teams at Mercury Software, a leader in software testing that was acquired by HP Software for $4.5 billion. Following the acquisition, he grew the testing business from $700m to over $1 billion via organic growth and security acquisitions.
For the past eight years, Rende served as senior vice president and general manager of products at PagerDuty, the enterprise cloud platform for AI operations. There, he led the continued scaling of the product and design organisation to deliver the next generation of PagerDuty’s platform and products, leveraging machine learning and AI organically as well as by acquisition.
-Datatonic, a player in driving “high business impact” with enterprise data and AI solutions, has named Scott Eivers as its new global chief executive officer, for all Datatonic operations in the UK, Europe and North America, spanning all business divisions in consulting, managed services and academy.
Eivers joins Datatonic from services partner Nordcloud, an IBM Company, where he served as the UK&I region director, “responsible for rapidly scaling its business from a challenger to a leader in the market”, we are told. As part of his wider chief growth officer role, he also helped Nordcloud set up its marketing and product functions. Prior to this, he scaled the small business consulting function at Gartner Consulting.
-Claroty, the cyber-physical systems (CPS) protection company, has named Yuval Fessler as chief legal officer (CLO). Fessler brings nearly two decades of legal and business experience to Claroty, with a strong track record in leading global legal and corporate affairs and “driving high-impact strategic initiatives”.
A seasoned public company executive and expert in complex commercial transactions, corporate M&A, capital markets, and regulatory strategy, Fessler will help further scale Claroty’s rapid growth as well as “drive international expansion and public market readiness”.
Prior to joining Claroty, Fessler served as chief legal and business officer at Tufin, where he led the company’s NYSE IPO in 2019, navigated complex shareholder and securities matters, and negotiated high-impact deals with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 clients across finance, tech, retail, aerospace, and government sectors. Fessler also previously served as chief legal and business officer and corporate development lead at OpenWeb.
-Jabra, a leader in professional audio, has appointed Sandrine Desbarbieux-Lloyd as senior VP of global marketing to lead marketing initiatives for Jabra’s headsets and speakerphones, as well as software and AI-driven video conferencing solutions.
With previous roles at Meta, Tesco, and Samsung, Sandrine brings a wealth of experience in leading marketing campaigns. Based in the UK, her strong expertise and experience will be “instrumental in the company’s continued innovation” to ensure professionals can connect “effortlessly, no matter where they work”, Jabra said.
She moves into the role formerly held by Calum MacDougall, who has accepted the position as president of Jabra’s enterprise division.
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