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SecurityWeek’s ‘People on the Move’ coverage shines a light on fresh hiring announcements, promotions, and career achievements within the cybersecurity community.

Week of April 14, 2025

Kelly Shortridge has been promoted to VP of Security Products at Fastly. She previously held several security and product management roles at the company since 2021.

Tenable has appointed Steve Vintz and Mark Thurmond as co-Chief Executive Officers on a permanent basis. The cybersecurity firm had been looking for a new CEO since January, when the company’s long-time CEO Amit Yoran passed away. Vintz has been Tenable’s Chief Financial Officer since 2014 and Thurmond has served as Chief Operating Officer since 2020. Vintz will continue to serve as CFO while the company conducts a CFO search.

Trish Cagliostro has joined identity security orchestration firm Orchid Security as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Cagliostro most recently served as Vice President of Channels and Alliances at cloud security giant Wiz.

Data privacy company Transcend has announced the appointment of Aimee Cardwell as the company’s CISO in Residence (CISO-IR). Prior to Transcend, Cardwell served as Executive Vice President and CISO at UnitedHealth Group. She previously held leadership roles at American Express, eBay, and Expedia.

Email, data, application and network security solutions provider Barracuda Networks has announced that Ketan Tailor has joined the company as Chief Customer Officer. Prior to joining Barracuda, Tailor held leadership roles at Ping Identity, xMatters, and Sophos.

Israeli cybersecurity asset management firm Axonius has named Ryan Knisley as its Chief Product Strategist. Knisley previously served as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Walt Disney and CISO of Costco.

Autonomous OT security assessment firm Frenos has named Colin Murphy as its Chief Hacking Officer. Prior to Frenos, Murphy served as CIO at KnowBe4. He also served as Red Team Security Engineer at Mitnick Security, the late Kevin Mitnick’s company.

F-Secure has announced the appointment of Fredrik Torstensson as Chief Partner Business Officer. Torstensson has decades of experience in the cybersecurity and wireless industries. Most recently he served as Senior Vice President of Sales at Samsung Electronics America.

Week of April 7, 2025

Application security firm Checkmarx has appointed Jonathan Rende as its Chief Product Officer (CPO), effective immediately. Prior to Checkmarx, Rende served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Products at PagerDuty. He also lead product development teams at Mercury Software, which was acquired by HP Software for $4.5 billion.

Yuval Fessler has been appointed the Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of OT and IoT security firm Claroty. Prior to Claroty, Fessler served as Chief Legal & Business Officer at Tufin, and Chief Legal & Business Officer and Corp Dev Lead at OpenWeb.

Data security posture management firm Symmetry Systems has appointed Anand Singh as Chief Security and Strategy Officer. Singh previously served as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Alkami Technologies, Caliber Home Loans, and OptumInsight (UnitedHealth Group).

Week of March 31, 2025

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) announced that Alex Ionescu, the company’s founding Chief Architect and former VP of Endpoint Engineering, has returned as Chief Technology Innovation Officer (CTIO) to help advance the CrowdStrike Falcon platform. During his break from CrowdStrike, Ionescu held senior cybersecurity roles within the Canadian government.

Charles (Chuck) Everette has been named Field Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at ESET‘s Corporate Solutions business in North America, which provides custom solutions and high-value threat intelligence for Fortune 500 companies and large enterprises. Prior to ESET, Everette held CISO and other leadership roles at Fidelity National Information Services, Bit9 (Carbon Black), Deep Instinct, Virsec, Mimic Cyber Solutions, and the City of Fort Lauderdale.

Identity verification and fraud prevention solutions provider Trulioo has named Vicky Bindra its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Bindra succeeds Steve Munford, who is retiring. Bindra previously held senior executive and product leadership roles at FIS, Visa and Mastercard.

Cyber resilience and data protection solutions provider Commvault has appointed Bill O’Connell as its Chief Security Officer (CSO). Most recently, O’Connell served as Global Head of Cybersecurity and Privacy at Roche, and prior to that he held various security leadership positions for nearly 12 years at ADP.

Week of March 24, 2025

Kevin Paige has been appointed Field CISO at identity governance solutions provider ConductorOne. Paige previously served as CISO for Uptycs, Flexport, and MuleSoft.

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