The Biggest Moves in Tech This Week

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.

Workplace Tech

MongoDB has appointed Peder Ulander as its new Chief Marketing Officer. Ulander was previously the Head of Enterprise and Developer Marketing at Amazon Web Services. Source | Full Story

Asana, a leading work management platform for teams, has revealed that Anne Raimondi will succeed Chris Farinacci as its next COO. Raimondi has served on Asana’s Board of Directors since 2019. Source | Full Story

Stack Overflow announced Tuesday that Matthew Gallatin will join the company as its Chief Financial Officer. Gallatin most recently served as CEO of Reltio, a cloud data management platform based in Redwood City, California. Source | Full Story

Tealium, a customer data platform, announced that Michael Hargis has joined the organization as SVP of Revenue Operations. Hargis previously led commercial operations functions at HP Enterprise, Lumen Technologies, and Axiom Law. Source

Reltio, a cloud-native master data management (MDM) software-as-a-service (SaaS) platfor announced that Connie Puglia has been named Chief Human Resources Officer. Puglia joins Reltio from TiVo (now merged with Xperi) where she was SVP and Chief People Officer. Source

Notarize, a Remote Online Notarization (RON) provider, has named Lisa Kalscheur as its first Chief Marketing Officer. Previously, she led Monetate as CMO through its acquisition by Kibo’s Vista Equity Partners, scaled AppNexus as VP of Marketing, and led ad tech pioneer Quigo as Head of Marketing. Source

Internet

Netflix has made an important hire as Lucinda Martinez will officially become the streaming giant’s first-ever VP of Multicultural Marketing. Martinez brings experience from a long career at WarnerMedia, where she most recently served as the EVP of Brand Marketing for HBO and HBO MAX. Source | Full Story

Angi has selected Dhanusha Sivajee to take on the role of Chief Marketing Officer. She most recently held the role at The Knot Worldwide (previously XO Group) and AOL Brand Group before that. Source | Full Story

Trustpilot has announced that Alicia Skubick will join the company as CMO to helm its marketing organization. Skubick brings experience from Intuit Quickbooks, where she most recently led the financial management software company’s UK marketing team. Source | Full Story

E-commerce

OOOOO, a mobile commerce platform, has appointed Tom Judge to the role of Chief Operating Officer. Judge most recently led the operations, technical and customer service teams at Rocket Internet. Source

Transportation Tech

Ford has selected seasoned tech executive Doug Field to serve as its new Chief Advanced Technology and Embedded Systems Officer. Field joins from Apple, where he led the tech giant's secretive automotive efforts. Source | Full Story

Faraday Future has hired a new VP of Manufacturing, Matt Tall, to lead all aspects of the company’s production and manufacturing operations. He most recently worked at rival Rivian as the company’s VP of Manufacturing. Source | Full Story

Passport, the transportation software and payments company helping municipalities provide digital parking and mobility infrastructure, has recruited Vanna Krantz as its new CFO. Krantz brings a wealth of financial executive experience, including her most recent role as the CFO at online instructional video platform MasterClass. Source | Full Story

JuiceBar, an EV charging company, has appointed Matt Tolan as its first Chief Commercial Officer. Tolan joins from Bolt Mobility where he served as the company’s Chief Commercial Officer. Source

Insurtech

Metromile has hired Gina Minick as its new VP of Telematics. Minick joins the company from Arity, where she led the mobility and driver data analytic firm’s telematics product team. Source | Full Story

Cybersecurity

Secureworks has promoted Wendy K. Thomas as its new President and CEO, effective as of September 3. She takes over from Michael R. Cote, who has retired. Source | Full Story

Kudelski Security announced the addition of Tony de Bos as VP of services for EMEA. Prior to joining to Kudelski Security, de Bos served as Global & EMEIA Data Protection and Privacy Leader and EMEIA Financial Services ServiceNow Alliance Leader at EY. Source

Onapsis announced the appointment of Rick Hanson as its new Chief Operating Officer. Most recently, he served as the Chief Revenue Officer at Brightcove. Source

Checkmarx has appointed Razi Sharir as Chief Product Officer (CPO). Sharir joins Checkmarx from Tableau Software, where he served as VP of Product Management, Data. Source

Mimecast announced that it has appointed Joe Mercurio as its Interim Chief Revenue Officer, effective October 5, 2021, following the resignation of Chief Revenue Officer Dino DiMarino. Source

Fintech

Secfi, an equity financing and planning platform, has named Jaime Moreno de los Rios as the company’s new COO and Neha Bhatia Ramdas as its new VP of Sales. Jaime Moreno de los Rios was most recently the VP of Corporate Development & Investor Relations at Flexport and Neha Bhatia Ramdas was VP of Sales at OpenInvest. Source

IT

Peraton has appointed Mara Motherway to its executive leadership team as SVP of Government and Customer Relations. Motherway joins Peraton from Booz Allen Hamilton, where she served as Vice President for Government Relations and Military Affairs. Source

Authenticom, a data solutions provider, announced that Lori Wilkins has been promoted to Chief Operations Officer and Brian Clements has been promoted to Chief Information Officer. Source

Astreya, a premier IT managed services solution provider, today announces the appointment of Eric Solis to Senior Vice President, Global Operations. He was most recently the VP of Operations and Optimization at NTT DATA Services. Source

NTT DATA revealed that it has appointed Aaron Millstone to Divisional President, Digital Transformation Services. Previously, Millstone led Oracle’s North American cloud strategic services and partner organization. Source

Health Tech

Align Technology announced that Raj Pudipeddi, Align Technology, the company's Chief Product and Marketing Officer, will assume additional responsibility as Managing Director for the commercial organization in the Asia Pacific region, effective immediately. Source

ConcertAI, a market leader for real-world evidence and enterprise AI Software-as-a-Service solutions for precision oncology, hematology, and urology, announced the appointment of Lauren Gordon as its first Chief People Officer. Most recently, Gordon was chief people officer at Tmunity Therapeutics. Source

CipherHealth, a digital patient engagement startup, announced that it has appointed Mandana Varahrami as Chief Product Officer. Varahrami most recently servied as Chief Product Officer at RapidDeploy. Source

Medable, a cloud platform for patient-centered drug development, announced the hiring of Dr. MaryAnne Rizk as Chief Strategy Officer. Source

Current Health, the leading enterprise care-at-home platform, today announced that it has added Mark Kaufman as CTO and Shardul Mehta as SVP of Product to its leadership team. Source

Transcarent has appointed Snezana Mahon as it new Chief Operating Officer. Most recently, Ms. Mahon was Vice President and General Manager of Care Solutions at Evernorth. Source

Limbix, a prescription digital therapeutic company, announced that Dr. Benjamin Alouf has been named Chief Medical Officer. Before joining Limbix, Dr. Alouf served as the Chief Medical Officer at Aetna Better Health of Pennsylvania. Source

Connectivity

Wind River announced the appointment of seasoned Microsoft executive Avijit Sinha to Chief Product Officer. Source

Ooma has named Shig Hamamatsu as the company's new CFO and Treasurer. He most recently served as CFO of Accuray. Source

Granite Telecommunications has promoted Sana Sheikh to VP of Transformation, Deputy General Counsel and Vice President of Strategic Affairs. Source

IOMAXIS announced that John Castles is the company's new CEO. He is a U.S. Army veteran who has spent the last few years as the COO of a private company supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Source

Manufacturing Tech

Azul 3D has named Shane Glenn as its CFO. Glenn was most recently the Co-Founder and CFO of additive manufacturing startup Evolve Additive Solutions. Source

AR/VR

Nextech AR Solutions has hired Bradley Gittings as its new VP of Investor Relations. Gittings is the co-founder of Agama Partners. Source