Pure Storage has named Paddy Fitzpatrick as regional vice president for the UK and Ireland. Based in the UK, Fitzpatrick will focus on strengthening customer and partner relationships across the UK&I markets.
With over three decades of experience working with some of the world’s largest technology companies, most recently at AWS, where he served in a leadership role focusing on enterprise software and SaaS, Fitzpatrick will support customers in maximising the value of the Pure Storage Platform.
-WEKA, the AI-native data platform company, has brought in Meini Heuberger as its chief financial officer, as it scales to advance AI innovation for its global enterprise customers.
Heuberger joins from Cohere, a WEKA customer, where he served as head of revenue and customer experience as a member of the company's executive leadership team. He has successfully sold and implemented AI services at enterprises of all sizes in various industries, we are told, leading customer- and partner-facing teams, including sales, partnerships, customer success, support, and revenue operations.
-Atos has named Michelle Scarsbrook as head of sales for the UK and Ireland.
Scarsbrook joins from Sopra Steria, where she led the private sector client relations team.
-Cloud software platform CoreWeave has hired Ernie Rogers as chief architect of strategic financing.
Rogers most recently served as Magnetar's chief operating officer, where he led the firm's operations and finances, including managing a diverse array of both back-office and select front-office teams.
-Guidehouse, the global advisory, technology, and managed services firm serving the commercial and public sectors, has added industry veteran Jon Steinert as a partner, where he will lead financial services AI and data initiatives.
He is a certified Master Technology Architect and AWS Solution Architect Professional.
-Thunder, a next generation Salesforce and cloud consulting, implementation, and managed services company, has announced the appointment of Paul Kersey as chief technology officer.
“This strategic hire marks a significant step in Thunder's ongoing commitment to deepen its capabilities in Mulesoft, Agentforce, and Data Cloud technologies,” said the firm.
-Veracode, the application risk management firm, has appointed Simon Adell as chief financial officer.
Adell brings to Veracode more than two decades of experience and deep expertise in financial leadership. Prior to Veracode, he served as chief financial officer at several firms, including TripleLift, iLevel Solutions, and, most recently, Data Camp.
-JAGGAER, a source-to-pay and supplier collaboration player, has named Gopinath Polavarapu as chief digital and AI officer. Polavarapu will guide and accelerate AI strategy, delivering JAGGAER’s objective to embed intelligence for a “hyper-automated, conversational, and collaborative platform”, that “enhances human decision-making and accelerates business outcomes”, the vendor said.
Polavarapu will contribute to JAGGAER’s end-to-end AI roadmap, encompassing agentic AI for the JAGGAER One Platform and internal employee productivity, while building AI capacity with talent acquisition, an AI Centre of Excellence, and a hub for AI thought leadership. Polavarapu was previously chief solutions officer at Kore.ai.
-European cybersecurity firm Logpoint has appointed Milad Aslaner as chief product officer to oversee the company’s product vision and execution.
With more than 15 years of experience in cybersecurity and product leadership, Aslaner will focus on the evolving needs of critical national infrastructure customers and managed security service providers across Europe, including simplified threat detection, regulatory compliance management, and strengthening data control.
Aslaner was previously head of product at SentinelOne, where he oversaw its SIEM, data lake, threat intelligence, and hyper-automation products. Before that, he spent a decade at Microsoft across technical and strategic roles, contributing to building out its cybersecurity business.
-Totalmobile, a leading provider of field service management (FSM) software, has brought in David Critchley as its new chief financial officer.
Critchley joins the executive team with two decades of experience in financial leadership across the software and private equity sectors. He will “drive and shape Totalmobile’s global economic strategy, supporting long-term value creation” and “day-to-day operational performance as Totalmobile continues to scale in the FSM sector”, the company said.
Prior to Totalmobile, Critchley was the group finance director at Zellis, a private equity-backed UK-headquartered HR and payroll solutions provider. His earlier roles included working in the portfolio team at Hg Capital, a global software-focused private equity investor, and at Deloitte, where he specialised in corporate finance.
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