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The Biggest Moves in Tech This Week

By George Paul

Last updated: Feb 15, 2023

These are the most notable hires, promotions, and departures within the US tech community in the last week. For executive news updated daily, check out The Org's People on the Move.

Tomasz (Tom) Marcinkowski. Image credit: Discord
Tomasz (Tom) Marcinkowski. Image credit: Discord

These are the most notable hires, promotions, and departures within the US tech community in the last week. For executive news updated daily, check out The Org's People on the Move.

Executive Moves

Clubhouse hired Maya Watson as its Head of Global Marketing. Watson was previously the Director of Editorial and Publishing at Netflix. Source | Full Story

Clubhouse hired Fadia Kader as Head of Media Partnerships and Creators. Kader previously led music partnerships at Instagram. Source | Full Story

Nokia appointed Melissa Schoeb as its Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, effective April 12th. Schoeb joins the team from Occidental where she was the VP of Corporate Affairs. Source | Full Story

Okta hired Steve Rowland as its new Chief Revenue Officer. Most recently, Rowland was Splunk's VP of Americas Sales. Source | Full Story

VMware named Paula Hodgins as SVP of Worldwide Accounts and Telco Sales. Hodgins previously served as President of HPE Canada. Source | Full Story

Robinhood hired Aparna Chennapragada to serve as its Chief Product Officer, a newly created role. Chennapragada previously worked at Google as the VP and GM of Consumer Shopping. Source | Full Story

Discord hired Tomasz Marcinkowski as its first CFO. Marcinkowski joins from Pinterest where he was the Head of Finance. Source | Full Story

Google Cloud hired Uri Frank as the VP of Engineering for its Custom Chip Division. Frank was previously the Corporate VP of Intel's Design Engineering Group. Source

SingleStore has appointed Tim Cabral, the former CFO of Veeva Systems, to its Board of Directors. Source

Micron appointed Jeremy Werner as Corporate VP and General Manager of its Storage Business Unit. Werner was previously the SVP and General Manager of KIOXIA America's SSD business unit. Source

Netigate hired Mikkel Drucker as its next CEO, effective April 1st. Drucker was previously the Chief Growth Officer at Tacton. Source

Ontrak has named Jonathan Mayhew as its new CEO, effective April 12th. Mayhew was previously a marketing executive at Aetna. Source

Clearbit announced Ross Moser has been appointed as its new CEO. Prior to Clearbit, Moser was the General Manager of Surveys at SurveyMonkey. Source

CoEnterprise hired Mahesh Nandyala as its Chief Product Officer. Nandyala was most recently the CEO at S3M Solutions. Source

Omnico Group appointed Keith Dunphy as its new US General Manager and Chief Revenue Officer. Dunphy joins from NCR Corporation, where he was a VP and General Manager. Source

Infutor hired Drew Thomas as CFO, Rachel Calomeni as SVP of Sales, Todd Schoenherr as VP of Strategy, and promoted Zora Senat to SVP of Marketing and Partnerships. Source

Upstream Works Software hired Jeff Palmer as Chief Revenue Officer. Palmer was previously the VP of Global Sales and Business Development at Speechmatics. Source

Univercells Technologies promoted Mathias Garny from Acting General Manager to CEO. Source

LinkSquares named Tim Parilla as its new Chief Legal Officer. Parilla was previously the General Counsel at DraftKings. Source

Higher Logic appointed Joanna Luth as its new Chief People Officer. Previously, Luth served as the Chief People Officer for Intradiem. Source

InterDigital hired Liren Chen as President and CEO, effective April 5th. Chen was previously the SVP and Global Head of IP, Legal Counsel at Qualcomm. Source

ColdQuanta a named Dan Caruso as its Executive Chairman and Interim CEO. Source

Peptilogics hired David Huang as SVP and Chief Medical Officer, Nick Nystrom as SVP of Computing & Data, and Nicholas Pachuda as SVP of Portfolio Strategy & Development. Source

ID Technologies promoted Michael Maice to Chief Technology Officer for Archon Products. Source

Behavox appointed Joseph Benjamin as its Chief Technology Officer. Most recently, Benjamin was Group Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Oracle's Data Cloud. Source

Instor Solutions appointed Nabeel Mahmood as its new Chief Information Officer. Source

Validity hired Kate Adams as SVP of Marketing and promoted Don Williams to Chief Revenue Officer. Before Validity, Adams was VP of Marketing at Drift and Williams was EVP of Sales at Validity. Source

Nordic Nanovector appointed Peter L. Braun as Chief Executive Officer, effective April 6th. Braun previously led Lifecycle Management teams at Hoffmann-La-Roche. Source

Thyngs promoted Laura Fox-Newby to Managing Director. Fox-Newby was previously Thyngs' Head of Operations. Source

Mission Secure appointed John Adams as CEO. Adams was most recently the CEO of Waratek. Source

Bynder appointed Paul Heiden as Chief Product Officer, John Mazotis as Chief Information Officer, and Jorrit Achterberg as Chief Legal Officer. Source

Swimm announced Elinor Guetta and Tim Post joined the team as Head of Business Operations and Principal Developer ReIations, respectively. Prior to Swimm, Guetta was Head of Growth at Gett and Post was the Community Evangelist for Stack Overflow. Source

scoutbee hired Mikael Söderberg as its new Chief Product & Technology Officer. Söderbergmost recently was CTO at Voi Technology. Source

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