APPOINTMENTS


Gigamon Gigamon has promoted Kristi Tiele to vice president of worldwide sales engineering. With over 25 years of hands-on experience, Ms Tiele will lead the Gigamon sales engineering team forward, helping customers eliminate security blind spots and reduce tool costs. Te Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline delivers network- derived intelligence to customers’ cloud, security, and observability tools, bringing defence-in-depth and complete performance management to their hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures. Ms Tiele brings robust leadership experience to the Gigamon


executive team, which she developed through 25 years as a sales engineer and leader within the security industry. Ms Tiele joined Gigamon in February 2022 as the senior director of worldwide service provider sales engineering, building a world-class team of sales engineers. Prior to joining Gigamon, Ms Tiele served as the sales engineer director for Keysight Technologies.


PPDS PPDS has added to its ever-growing North American team with the appointment of Megan Lipinczyk who joins as channel marketing manager.


With an enviable CV and impeccable track record increasing


productivity and profitability for some of the world’s leading AV/IT organisations, including Microsoſt, Ms Lipinczyk brings a wealth of experience, additional skillsets and fresh ideas for this important new role. Ms Lipinczyk’s key responsibilities at PPDS will centre around


driving greater awareness of the PPDS brand and its evolving solutions, while increasing demand and revenue opportunities through the channel and with its partners. Working in collaboration with PPDS’ national and regional team, her day-to-day duties will include, but are not limited to, developing and executing comprehensive channel marketing plans and programs, and overseeing joint marketing campaigns, promotions and trade shows.


Vizibl Richard Hogg has been appointed as the new chief executive of Vizibl. Mr Hogg is taking over the reins from founder Mark Perera, who will transition into


a board-level advisory role, remaining an active participant in the business. Mr Hogg brings over 20 years of deep enterprise SaaS and


procuretech experience which he will use to further Vizibl’s chief objective of enabling its roster of enterprise clients to better leverage their supplier relationships. Troughout his career, Mr Hogg has built a strong reputation for


his ability to drive results, his strategic thinking and his customer- centric approach. He is a strong advocate for leveraging technology to help businesses solve complex problems, and he has deep procurement and supply market experience. Mr Hogg’s professional career has included leadership roles with Achilles Group, and general management roles with BravoSolution and Scoutbee.


14 | May 2023


This month’s movers and shakers in the tech industry...


Sophos Sophos has promoted Joe Levy to president of the Sophos Technology Group (STG), appointed Bill Robbins to president, worldwide field operations,


and Darren Barker (pictured), to regional vice president of sales for Northern Europe. Mr Levy is currently Sophos’ chief technology officer and chief


product officer, and will retain these titles and the organizational structure of STG. As president, Mr Levy will continue expanding Sophos as a leading global cybersecurity service providers. As head of worldwide field operations, Mr Robbins will oversee


all aspects of global sales with a continued priority on the channel ecosystem, including helping partners grow their business with Sophos’ MDR and IR services and security product solutions. Mr Robbins will also lead customer support and develop and direct Sophos’ new customer success program. Prior to joining Sophos, Mr Robbins was chief revenue officer and executive vice president at Mandiant, and FireEye prior to its divestiture, for six years. Before that, he was executive vice president of worldwide sales and corporate marketing at Nuance Communications. He also held several executive level sales positions at Symantec. Mr Robbins will join Sophos’ senior management team and report to Mr Hagerman. Meanwhile, Mr Barker is responsible for leading sales of Sophos’


Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Incident Response (IR) services, as well as the company’s portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security solutions, in the UK, Ireland and Nordics. With nearly 30 years of sales experience, working with brands such


as Hitachi, EMC and Fujitsu, Mr Barker is passionate about building high-performance sales organizations that put customers and partners at the core of planning and execution. Formerly, Mr Barker managed and built the mid-market business unit at Tanium, creating a culture of accountability and setting a vision for success with his team. He is based in Weybridge, UK.


XConnect XConnect has appointed Pablo Jimenez as global sales and partnership director to support its worldwide growth into application-to-person, carrier, mobile network


operator and communications platform as a service customer. Prior to his appointment at XConnect, Mr Jimenez held positions at


NetNumber and BICS. He has over 10 years’ experience in delivering customer growth and sales strategies to global regions including Europe, Africa, America, and the Middle East. Within his role, Mr Jimenez will support customers by providing


expert guidance in how XConnect can enable them to maximise accurate traffic delivery and minimise surcharge-based loss and fraud. Tis year XConnect has already expanded its global numbering


intelligence by onboarding number portability query data in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Slovenia and Uruguay. Tis latest strategic hire supports its global growth strategy as it continues to expand its footprint and enable more customers to gain control over their communications offerings.


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