File data platform Nasuni has appointed David Castignola as chief revenue officer, Anthony Miller as chief marketing officer, and James Lemonias as senior vice president of customer success.
These latest additions to Nasuni’s executive team will play a “critical role” in deepening the company’s trusted relationships with customers and partners, while spearheading its next phase of global growth, Nasuni said.
David Castignola brings more than two decades of experience accelerating growth and delivering customer success. During his 20 years at RSA, he created and led the customer response programme during the RSA SecurID breach, before serving as the first CRO at Optiv, COO at BlackBerry Cylance, and CRO at Bugcrowd. Most recently, as CRO at Delinea, he successfully integrated and scaled the worldwide sales organisation following its merger.
At Nasuni, Castignola is focused on expanding go-to-market functions, strengthening the channel partner programme, and ensuring customers have the support and reach needed to execute their AI strategies with confidence.
At PowerSchool, Anthony Miller played a key role in the company’s expansion and led the team that earned the 2019 CODiE Marketing Team of the Year award. With leadership experience spanning marketing, sales, channel partner strategies, and business development, Miller brings a holistic go-to-market perspective to Nasuni.
James Lemonias is an experienced customer success leader with a strong background in scaling teams and driving long-term customer value. At Bottomline Technologies, he led customer success and support for a high-growth product line that helped the company reach $700m in revenue.
Earlier, at Carbonite, he built the company’s first customer success and account management functions. At Nasuni, Lemonias leads customer success, services, and support, ensuring organisations maximise the value of their file data foundation, and achieve measurable outcomes as they advance their AI initiatives.
-Mimecast has named Leslie Nielsen as chief information security officer. He is a 25 year-plus cybersecurity veteran who joins Mimecast from Klaviyo, a high-growth marketing automation platform, where he served as SVP and CISO.
At Klaviyo, he played a critical role in scaling the company to $1.3 billion in revenue, fortifying its defences and leading its security function through IPO readiness, positioning the organisation to meet the demands of the public markets.
Prior to Klaviyo, Nielsen held SVP and CISO roles at Nuance Communications, SAP Concur and SuccessFactors, and the CTO role at SOS Security, along with senior roles at IBM and ACS (acquired by Xerox).
As CISO, Nielsen will spearhead Mimecast’s global cybersecurity strategy, driving the company’s threat intelligence, risk assessment, and incident response initiatives, as well as ensuring regulatory compliance, reinforcing Mimecast’s commitment to providing the highest levels of protection for its more than 42,000 global customers.
-UiPath, the player in agentic automation, has named Michael Atalla as its new chief marketing officer. Atalla will oversee all facets of the company’s global marketing strategy, including brand, performance, demand generation, and communications, playing a central role in elevating UiPath’s role in agentic AI and orchestration services.
Most recently, he served as senior vice president and head of worldwide marketing at F5, the application security and delivery company, leading marketing execution and impact for the last four years. Prior to joining F5, he founded and led The MJJM Group, aiding early-stage founders achieve their initial funding and growth objectives.
Atalla also spent nearly 15 years at Microsoft in various marketing leadership roles, playing an instrumental role in leading the evolution of Microsoft Office from an on-premise technology to cloud productivity services around Office 365.
-SDI Presence, an IT consultancy and managed services provider, has brought in Garrick Schermer as AI data strategy and governance lead. With more than 25 years of experience in enterprise data architecture, analytics platform development, and AI enablement, Schermer will spearhead the strategic growth of SDI's Data & AI practice, guiding clients through the complexities of data governance, cloud modernisation, and artificial intelligence readiness.
Schermer will partner with organisations to align their data initiatives with organisational outcomes, foster AI maturity, and ensure scalable, secure, and responsible use of modern technologies. His work will span across industries including public safety, aviation and transportation, and utilities.
Schermer joins SDI after leadership roles at RSM US, Virtuous Software, and American Express. He is certified in Snowflake (SnowPro Core) and has delivered enterprise data solutions using Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Power BI, and Python.
-Seekr has appointed AI industry sales veteran Chris Griffiths as vice president of enterprise sales. Griffiths brings deep experience in sales development and go-to-market strategy, with a record of scaling revenue in highly regulated industries and building high-performing teams.
Griffiths joins Seekr from SymphonyAI, where he led sales efforts across energy, telecom, life sciences, and manufacturing. His appointment supports Seekr's continued growth, driven by the high enterprise demand for explainable, transparent AI solutions that integrate seamlessly into existing environments, said Seekr.
At Seekr, he will oversee all enterprise sales and strategy and scale operations across all key industries.
-Guidehouse, the global AI-led professional services firm, has made key leadership appointments to accelerate growth and innovation across its Europe, Middle East, and Canada (EMEC) business.
Evelyn McKinnie has been named EMEC leader, expanding her leadership from Guidehouse's international Energy Providers practice to oversee strategy, operations, and client delivery.
And Matt Dwyer, a partner at Guidehouse, has been appointed EMEC growth leader, where he will lead business expansion and strategic initiatives tailored to the market's evolving needs.
McKinnie has a wealth of experience in international business transformation and a strong track record of delivering results across industries. Dwyer will collaborate closely with McKinnie and regional leaders to drive long-term, sustainable growth.
-UKG, an AI-first provider of HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions, has named Jim Joudrey as chief technology officer to lead the company’s global engineering and cloud organisation of more than 4,000 people.
Joudrey will serve on the UKG executive leadership team and report to CEO Jennifer Morgan.
He has more than two decades of experience leading large-scale engineering and technology teams at some of the world’s largest software companies. Most recently, he served as vice president of digital acceleration at Amazon, where he led digital e-commerce across over 40 businesses at Amazon, including Prime, Prime Video, Audible, Music, Devices and Games.
Prior to this, Joudrey was SVP of analytics cloud engineering at Salesforce, following its Tableau acquisition, where he helped drive Tableau’s cloud migration initiative.
Joudrey previously spent a decade at Amazon in roles spanning core financial systems, marketplace services, and supply chain operations, culminating in a technology leadership role in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Infrastructure, responsible for engineering teams owning labour management, data centre automation, security, hardware vetting, and monitoring.
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