Cybersecurity services provider Netwrix has announced two senior channel leadership appointments: Frank DeCicco as head of Americas channel, and Stuart Robson-Frisby as vice president, worldwide channel.
DeCicco joins Netwrix after more than two decades leading partner sales organisations at Tanium and Cisco. Throughout his career, he has built and scaled programmes that strengthened partner ecosystems and expanded market reach.
Robson-Frisby will lead Netwrix’s global distributor and channel network. Since joining the company, he has developed programmes that expand partner relationships and outcomes across EMEA. Prior to Netwrix, he led EMEA channel organisations at Tanium and Ivanti.
“Frank and Stuart are trusted advocates dedicated to our partners and customers,” said Britt Norwood, chief revenue officer at Netwrix. “As security challenges grow more complex, strong partnerships are essential to keeping organisations secure. With their leadership, our partner ecosystem will continue to expand, delivering data security that starts with identity to strengthen cyber resilience.”
-Channelscaler has named Brian Martin as CEO. Kenneth Fox, the founding CEO of Channelscaler, will assume the role of founder and chief technology officer as the company further accelerates its growth, as the “category-defining platform for modern partner ecosystems”.
"I welcome Brian to the Channelscaler team and look forward to partnering as we support our customers in winning partner mindshare and helping them create competitive advantage in their partner ecosystem," said Fox. "Brian comes to Channelscaler with a proven track record in customer success and expertise in go-to-market strategies. He will further strengthen our leadership team and accelerate our journey as a channel programme automation leader."
Martin joins Channelscaler with extensive experience across the technology sector, most recently serving as chief revenue officer at Litmus Software, which was acquired by Validity in April 2025. Having spent more than 20 years in the technology industry, contributing to companies including OpenAir, NetSuite, and ForeSee, he has held various leadership roles in sales and customer success. Prior to his career in technology, he worked as a consultant with Bain & Company.
-Scality, a player in cyber-resilient storage software, has brought in Tom Leyden as vice president of product marketing. Leyden brings over two decades of experience in SaaS, storage, backup, and AI. His background includes leadership roles at Amplidata (acquired by HGST, a Western Digital company), DDN, Excelero (acquired by NVIDIA), and Kasten by Veeam.
Over the course of his career, Leyden has led global marketing initiatives across the full spectrum of storage technologies, from early innovation in object storage and scale-out NVMe, to Kubernetes-native backup, and, more recently, agentic AI.
In his new role, Leyden will lead global product marketing for Scality RING and ARTESCA, as the company enters its next phase of growth supporting AI workloads. He will also drive marketing execution into the large enterprise segment, including Global 2000 companies and public cloud service providers.
Leyden will work closely with strategic alliances and ISV partners, such as Weka, Commvault, and Veeam to support joint go-to-market success.
-WSO2, the enterprise digital infrastructure technology company, has appointed Kristian Györkös as senior vice president and global head of channel. He will be responsible for shaping and accelerating the growth of WSO2’s global channel and partner ecosystem as the company continues to expand its reach across enterprises and markets worldwide.
He is a recognised leader in the API management ecosystem, having built and scaled global partner networks at Kong, and Apigee (a Google Cloud company), that became central to their growth.
He also brings extensive executive experience from Solo.io, DataStax, Trifacta, Flosum, Dell, and Microsoft, where he drove transformative alliances and partner-led growth strategies across cloud, data, and enterprise software.
Under his leadership, the company will strengthen its relationships with value-added resellers, global systems integrators, cloud service and managed service providers, and technology partners.
-mindZvue, a Salesforce Summit Partner, has named Vinay Chaturvedi as chief executive officer, “underscoring the convergence of artificial intelligence and Salesforce”, it says.
His appointment signals the company's intent to evolve beyond its role as a Salesforce Summit Partner into a “global innovation leader”, blending AI, automation, and Salesforce expertise into what it calls Innovation-as-a-Service.
A Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame member, Chaturvedi is recognised among the world's most influential experts for sustained excellence and leadership in the Salesforce ecosystem, said mindZvue, as he has shaped how enterprises adopt and scale Salesforce through more than 350 global transformation projects.
He co-founded and scaled a Salesforce consulting firm into a global player before its acquisition, then led the acquiring company's Salesforce business unit, expanding practices worldwide and delivering large-scale transformation programmes.
-Phoenix Software has announced its 500th employee has officially started work at the York, North Yorkshire-based firm. Jamie Baron has joined Phoenix as a physical security business development manager.
In welcoming its 500th employee, Phoenix is celebrating a significant milestone in the company’s history, which was started by two friends in 1990, had grown to 100 people by the turn of the millennium, and which reached 200 employees by 2020.
Phoenix says it is hiring across all roles, with a particular focus on technical expertise and subject matter specialists in digital transformation, AI, and cybersecurity, as the company maintains its year-on-year double-digit growth.
-T-Systems has appointed its first chief sovereignty officer. Christine Knackfuß-Nikolic’s key responsibilities will include defining and implementing a company-wide sovereignty strategy tailored to customer-specific, regulatory, and geopolitical requirements.
Knackfuß-Nikolic, currently chief technology officer at T-Systems, will focus in particular on developing differentiated value propositions across the entire portfolio to address the various sovereignty challenges faced by all customers.
In her new role, she will continue to be responsible for T-Systems' entire security business and remain part of the management team.
-Firebolt, the analytical database for real time applications, has announced that Hemanth Vedagarbha has been appointed as its chief executive officer. He succeeds co-founder and CEO Eldad Farkash, who will now serve as Firebolt's chairman of the board.
Vedagarbha joined Firebolt as president in January, and has played a pivotal role in driving record growth, expanding the company's global reach, and strengthening its position in the rapidly evolving analytical database market.
The company's architecture offers Postgres compatible SQL, which can run on Iceberg, and deliver “exceptional price-performance for data intensive workloads”, said the provider,
"Over the past eight months, Hemanth has been running our go-to-market with exceptional results," said Farkash. "This is a natural expansion of his leadership at a time when demand for Firebolt is accelerating worldwide. I'm excited to continue working closely with Hemanth in my role as chairman of the board as we scale to capitalise on this tremendous opportunity."
-Bounteous, a global digital transformation consultancy, has appointed Martin Young as executive vice president for data and AI. Young will lead the company's global AI strategy, helping clients harness the power of data and artificial intelligence to “create transformative solutions, accelerate value creation, and achieve measurable business outcomes”.
With more than 20 years in technology consulting, Young has built and scaled enterprise AI and data organisations, forged strategic alliances with top AI providers, and guided some of the world's most recognised brands through successful AI adoption, said Bounteous.
His expertise spans enterprise AI systems, AI-driven customer experiences, and scalable implementation frameworks, making him uniquely positioned to advance the company's vision for “responsible, impactful digital solutions and AI innovation”.
Prior to joining Bounteous, Young served as managing director, global data and AI, at Slalom, where he advanced the company's AI capabilities across regions, provided executive sponsorship for global delivery, and built strategic alliances with companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. He also spearheaded co-innovation initiatives with cloud providers to enable enterprise-scale AI deployments.
-Rainbird Technologies, a pioneer in “deterministic and auditable AI” for enterprise-grade applications, has named Coenraad van der Poel as chief revenue officer. Van der Poel, a seasoned SaaS scale-up leader and former UiPath executive, brings over 30 years of experience in building and leading high-performing go-to-market organisations.
Van der Poel will lead Rainbird's commercial strategy as the company enters its next phase of accelerated growth, following strong enterprise adoption and growing global demand for trustworthy AI. His appointment comes as Rainbird strengthens its partner ecosystem, and scales its enterprise and developer communities.
He has also held senior roles at Accenture, HP Enterprise Services, and EzGov, and advised numerous high-growth technology companies on building scalable, sustainable GTM strategies.
-SCC recently appointed Robert Vassoyan as its new CEO. James Rigby, existing CEO and son of founder Sir Peter Rigby, has become executive chairman. James Rigby will also keep his role as Co-CEO of Rigby Group.
Vassoyan has previously held senior positions at both Atos and Cisco.
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