Black Box has brought in Sean Maguire as senior vice president of sales for its data centre business.
With a growing presence in 35 countries and a “robust portfolio” designed to serve hyperscale, colocation and enterprise customers, Black Box says it is poised for its next phase of growth in the mission-critical infrastructure space.
With over 25 years of sales leadership experience across IT and infrastructure firms, including Atos, Digital Realty, Olsson, CEC Facilities Group, and, most recently, founder of Stratygy, Maguire brings a “nuanced understanding” of both the technology and the customer, said Black Box.
Maguire will work in close collaboration with Black Box’s global teams across sales, operations, delivery, safety, and quality to “ensure seamless, end-to-end execution”.
-Super X AI Technology, formerly known as Junee, has appointed Kenny Sng as its chief technology officer, as part of its effort to become a “one-stop AI infrastructure solutions provider”.
With a strong background in enterprise technology, data centre engineering, and strategic innovation, Sng brings over two decades of experience leading teams across Asia as the CTO of Intel Singapore and Malaysia.
His career includes leadership roles across cloud infrastructure, systems integration, and AI-driven architecture across global operations, “making him uniquely positioned to spearhead SuperX's technical vision and execution”, said his new employer.
-Plume has named Chris Griffiths as the company’s new chief technology officer too, “doubling down”, it said, on its commitment to adding leaders to its executive team with “deep experience” working with internet service providers.
Griffiths, who worked with Plume CEO Dan Herscovici and new chief business officer Dave Wechsler at Comcast Xfinity, and as a senior vice president at CUJO AI, brings over 20 years of experience working with ISPs across the technology stack, leading deployments of large scale internet and security solutions.
Plume’s strategy is building “smarter, faster, and more flexible” solutions for ISPs and becoming their trusted technology partner. With data from over 400 ISP customers, Plume has extensive tooling for providers to identify trends across their respective networks, improve their business operations, build robust security solutions, and strengthen consumer loyalty, we are told.
-Endava, the next-generation technology services provider, has made big changes to its executive team.
John Cotterell, CEO, has assumed additional operational responsibilities for the sales and go-to-market strategy, “reflecting a strategic move towards a more centralised leadership model”, said the firm. This follows the retirement of Julian Bull, Endava’s chief operating officer.
As part of this broader leadership evolution, Alastair Lukies has joined Endava as chief engagement officer, with a specific focus on further deepening stakeholder engagement, externally and internally. Lukies is also responsible for chairing Endava’s recently announced global advisory board as the business focuses on AI driven growth.
Rob Machin has also returned to the company as chief people and locations officer. Machin, a former COO of the company, will focus on “building on our strong engineering culture” to “continue to deliver significant value to our clients in both complex programmes of core systems modernisation”, and by “utilising productivity gains from the use of AI technologies”, said Endava.
Machin succeeds David Churchill, chief people officer, who has stepped down from the role and will leave the company.
-Bugcrowd, a specialist in crowdsourced cybersecurity, has announced that Umesh Shankar, corporate vice president of data, privacy and security engineering at Microsoft AI, has joined its board of advisors.
“Shankar’s extensive experience in data protection, privacy, and AI-driven security will be invaluable as Bugcrowd continues to innovate its platform and expand its market reach,” said Bugcrowd.
-NormCyber, the UK-based security operations specialist, has named Mark Lee as its sales director to spearhead its growth, which is focused on cyber-managed services for enterprise customers.
Lee brings decades of experience in building new customer acquisition sales teams, to target large UK and global enterprises with managed services. He also has proven expertise executing acquisition strategies for fast-scaling businesses, added NormCyber.
Prior to joining NormCyber, Lee served as managing director of Nasstar for six years, where he oversaw the company’s managed services and cloud key accounts business, managing half of the company’s revenue. He also spent six years at Intamac Systems, where he was promoted to CEO.
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