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Jobs Board 20 August: Big channel players make key hires

Jobs Board 20 August: Big channel players make key hires

SonicWall has announced another step in its transformation to become the “cybersecurity platform purpose-built for managed service providers and managed security service providers”.

It has appointed Michael Crean, founder of MSSP Solutions Granted and United States army combat veteran, as general manager of the SonicWall Managed Security Services Division.

“This move is part of SonicWall's evolution into a full-service cybersecurity partner, delivering both advanced technology and co-managed services designed to meet partners wherever they are in their security services journey,” said the supplier.

-Web accessibility firm accessiBe has appointed Sharon Uda as vice president of research and development. Uda will “lead the charge” in scaling the organisation's teams, processes, and platforms to deliver innovation.

With deep experience growing R&D organisations from startup to scale, she'll be developing solutions that anticipate user needs and “set new standards” for digital accessibility, helping accessiBe's customers stay ahead in a constantly shifting compliance landscape.

Before joining accessiBe, Uda served as vice president of R&D at CHEQ, where she expanded the engineering team from less than ten people to nearly 50, led the company's transformation from a single-product offering to a multi-product platform, and oversaw global cloud operations leveraging AWS, Kubernetes, Go, Python, and React.

Prior to that, she headed the Codebashing Product Unit at Checkmarx, where she unified product and engineering functions, enhanced delivery efficiency, and played a key role in the company's $1.2 billion acquisition.

-AlphaSense, the AI platform for market intelligence in the business and financial world, has named Brian Moroney as chief compliance officer. Moroney is responsible for leading AlphaSense's compliance team, strategy, and leveraging AI to further enhance its compliance programme, with primary oversight focus on the company's Tegus expert call library and call services, the company's distribution of third-party research content, and secure management of sensitive client data.

Most recently, Moroney worked at Goldman Sachs for eight years as an attorney, advising its sell-side research division on issues relating to regulatory compliance, artificial intelligence, alternative data, and expert networks.

Prior to that, Moroney was the chief compliance officer and general counsel at Coleman Research for nine years, where he was responsible for creating and guiding the global legal strategy and building an expert network compliance programme.

-Virtana, the player in deep observability, has appointed David Stack as chief financial officer. With demand for unified observability accelerating as enterprises modernise their IT operations, Stack will lead Virtana's financial strategy to scale the business and deliver measurable value to customers navigating hybrid and distributed environments.

Stack brings over two decades of financial leadership across high-growth technology companies and large-scale enterprises, with a track record of driving “significant revenue expansion”, “successful market scaling”, and executing complex mergers and acquisitions. As CFO at HubSpot, he helped guide the company through hypergrowth phases and strategic market expansions.

His executive experience spans multiple technology companies, including Localytics, EMC, and RSA Security. Stack has also served on boards and as an advisor to high-growth companies such as Crayon, Wellframe, and BrandYourself, bringing expertise in scaling operations, leading M&A activity, and navigating competitive technology markets.

-TalentNeuron, a player in global workforce intelligence and workforce transformation, has named Bledi Taska as chief data and analytics officer. Taska will unite TalentNeuron's research, data science, and engineering teams under a “single vision” to accelerate the development of capabilities that help clients anticipate labour market shifts, design future-ready workforces, and close talent gaps.

Taska brings 20 years of experience transforming workforce data into actionable insights at scale. He is widely recognised as a leading authority on the future of work, with expertise in harnessing advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyse labour market dynamics.

Most recently, as head of analytics at SkyHive by Cornerstone, Taska developed predictive models and analytics for workforce planning applications.

And over eight years as executive vice president and chief economist at Lightcast, he built teams of economists and data scientists who pioneered the application of real-time labour market analytics. In addition, as chief economist at Burning Glass Technologies, he shaped strategy at the intersection of data, product, and labour market intelligence.

-Pendo, the software experience management platform, has brought in Saurabh Sodani as its first chief development officer. Sodani will lead global engineering, IT, technical support, and platform innovation, as Pendo expands its investment in AI and prepares for its next phase of product growth.

Sodani brings more than 20 years of experience scaling high-performing engineering organisations and leading technology transformation at enterprise scale. He most recently served as chief technology officer at Salesloft, where he led the company's AI strategy and delivered improvements in development velocity, code quality, and architectural rigour. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles at Oracle, Yahoo, and Datalogix.

-Yondr Group, the global developer, owner and operator of hyperscale data centres, has appointed John Shingler as chief operating officer, responsible for all data centre operations globally.

Shingler joins Yondr's executive leadership team, bringing more than 20 years of experience in the data centre and infrastructure industry. His appointment follows the appointments of Aaron Wangenheim as CEO and Sandip Mahajan as CFO, when Yondr was acquired by DigitalBridge and La Caisse in July.

Shingler previously served as executive vice president of data centre operations at T5 Data Centers, where he oversaw the operations of more than 2.5GW of capacity across 60 data centres in the US and Europe, including assets owned by both clients and T5. During Shingler's time there, the team tripled in size and expanded from the US into the European market.

Before his tenure at T5, Shingler held several leadership roles at CBRE, and served as a surface warfare officer in the United States Navy.

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