Security News
McAfee announced the appointment of Venkat Bhamidipati as executive vice president and chief financial officer effective September 2, 2020. Bhamidipati joins McAfee from Providence, a healthcare company with $25B in annual revenues, where he was executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Elastic announced the appointment of Paul Appleby as president, worldwide field operations. Appleby will report to Elastic founder and Chief Executive Officer Shay Banon.
Infocyte announced that it has expanded its executive leadership team with the appointment of industry veteran Virginia Satrom as Vice President of Marketing. Satrom brings more than a decade of marketing experience in the cybersecurity industry working extensively with top security partners worldwide.
China has accused the US of abusing its national security laws to target Chinese companies after Washington threatened to ban video-sharing app TikTok from its shores last week. On Saturday, the Trump administration vowed to "Close down" the Chinese-owned video-sharing app unless it is bought by a "Very American" company within 45 days.
The US House of Representatives has passed a spending bill which includes a $500m election security provision. Specifically, the half-billion goes to the US Election Assistance Commission and will give states money that will be used to replace electronic voting machines with ones that provide a paper trail of results.
Motorola Solutions announced that Jason Winkler has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective July 1, 2020. Winkler succeeds Gino Bonanotte, who has decided to retire from Motorola Solutions on December 31, 2020.
The supervisory board of IDEMIA has appointed Pierre Barrial as the new President & CEO of the Group, replacing Yann Delabrière who resumes his previous role as Chairman of the Board. Pierre Barrial will succeed Yann as the Group's President & CEO. He brings over 25 years' experience with multinational and multicultural tech companies serving both the government and enterprise sectors.
SentinelOne, the autonomous cybersecurity platform company, announced the appointment of Chuck Fontana as Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development. Mr. Fontana will lead SentinelOne's business and corporate development functions, supporting the company on its journey as the world's next great cybersecurity platform.
ImageWare Systems announces the appointment of Sudheer Koganti as Vice President of Engineering effective June 22, 2020. Koganti has led, built and managed a wide variety of successful products across embedded, mobile and cloud.
Nutanix announced that it has appointed Christian Goffi as Vice President, Americas Channel Sales, where he will lead Nutanix's Americas Channel team. "I'm thrilled to be joining Nutanix, a company I've admired for its innovative hyperconverged infrastructure, cloud solutions, and customer-first approach," said Christian Goffi, Vice President of Americas Channel Sales at Nutanix.