Identity security player CyberArk has named Andy Parsons as director for EMEA financial services and insurance, a strategic move to bolster its presence across the region as financial institutions “double down on identity-led security”, said the firm.
Based in London, Parsons brings over 35 years of experience, including senior roles at HSBC, Citi, JP Morgan, and Mastercard, where he led as CIO, CTO, CISO and CRO.
-Solace, which says it’s “powering real-time, event-driven integration for the agentic age”, has brought in Paul Fitzpatrick as chief marketing and business development officer.
Fitzpatrick brings deep experience in enterprise software go-to-market, having held senior leadership roles with IBM, Cognos and Halogen Software. His resume also includes a prior stint at Solace where he led partnerships, global customer education, field enablement and performance management.
Fitzpatrick joins Solace from Shopify, where he led the development of the company’s enterprise partner ecosystem, and evolution of global partner programmes and education.
-Database DevOps firm Liquibase is expanding global operations and has named David De Paula as VP of EMEA. It has also announced EU- and UK-focused partners such as BTP Icon, Perforce Delphix, Zivra and Almaviva Solutions.
The Liquibase OS has been downloaded more than 100m times, and Liquibase Pro is the company’s enterprise-grade, unified Database DevOps platform built on top of that open source foundation.
Organisations rely more than ever on mission-critical analytics, AI workloads and production-grade data products, and, unfortunately, database change has become a growing challenge. Most teams still rely on notebooks, SQL scripts, and ticket-based processes to make updates. These manual workflows introduce risk, increase complexity, and delay delivery.
Liquibase says it gives developers, platform teams, and data teams the automation, policy enforcement, and observability they need to move fast with confidence and address the “Velocity Gap” - the growing divide between how fast application code and infrastructure can move and how slowly database change still happens.
-UiPath, the agentic automation firm, has appointed Simon Pettit as area vice president for the UK & Ireland.
He is said to have played a key role in accelerating the company’s global growth over the past six years, having held a number of key leadership positions, most recently serving as vice president of international sales operations and revenue excellence.
He has now stepped into this regionally focused role to drive transformation projects, accelerate growth and expand the impact of agentic automation across UK&I, UiPath said.
-Version 1 has announced Roop Singh as its new chief executive officer, effective immediately. This leadership change comes seven months after the departure of former CEO Tom O’Connor in November.
Since joining the company six months ago as chief commercial officer, Roop has played a “pivotal role” in shaping strategic direction, strengthening commercial operations, and laying the groundwork for Version 1’s next phase of growth, said Version 1.
Prior to joining Version 1, Roop served as chief business officer and CEO of Americas at Birlasoft. Previous roles also include head of financial services US at IBM, as well as senior consulting and financial services roles at Wipro.
With this appointment, executive chairman Brian Humphries will return to his original role as chairman of the board.
-Nasuni, a leading unified file data platform company, has appointed three executives to its leadership team: Alison Bayiates as chief people officer, Dalan Winbush as chief information officer, and Elyse Gunn as chief information security officer.
These additions come on the heels of the company’s recent appointment of Sam King as chief executive officer, and reflect Nasuni’s “ongoing commitment to scaling its operations, investing in its people, and driving continued innovation in hybrid cloud storage and data services”, said the firm.
-Sustainable data centre provider Verne has named Sarah Kane as head of people, to establish and grow teams as the company implements its strategic growth plans across the Nordics and the UK.
-Network Group, the member-owned peer-to-peer community group for managed service providers, IT resellers and retailers, has appointed Chrisopher Cassie as business development manager (vendors), as part of its “three-year growth strategy”.
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