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01732 759725 14 BULLETIN : PEOPLE Nutanix appoints new CEO Nutanix has appointed Rajiv Ramaswami as President and Chief Executive Officer. Ramaswami will succeed co-founder Dheeraj Pandey, who previously announced his plans to retire as CEO of Nutanix upon the appointment of a successor. Ramaswami is a seasoned technology industry executive who has held senior executive roles at industry leaders including VMware, Broadcom, Cisco, and Nortel, after having begun his career at IBM. Before joining Nutanix, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Products and Cloud Services at VMware. www.nutanix.com Senior Director promoted to drive growth Nutanix has promoted Rob Tribe from his previous position as Senior Director, Systems Engineering to Vice President, Systems Engineering, for the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region. In his new position, Tribe will play a strategic role in supporting Nutanix’s expansion in EMEA, whilst assuming overall responsibility for the company’s growing team of systems engineers in the region. Within this remit, he will oversee the teams that provide pre-sales consulting, technical guidance, and assistance to customers and channel partners. www.nutanix.com LogMeIn names Domenici Chief Marketing Officer Cloud marketing veteran, Jamie Domenici, is joining LogMeIn as its new Chief Marketing Officer. Domenici comes to LogMeIn from Salesforce, where she spent the last ten years bringing cloud software to small and midsize businesses, leading all post-sales adoption and onboarding grounded in customer success for every customer. At LogMeIn, she will oversee a nearly 200 person marketing team consisting of customer marketing, product marketing, acquisition marketing, marketing operations, corporate communications, brand & creative, and web & e-commerce. www.logmeininc.com ConnectWise strengthens leadership team ConnectWise has expanded its leadership team with three new executive appointments across the information security, growth and engineering departments. Chris Timms joins as EVP of growth from his former role at ACI Worldwide, Tom Greco is promoted from Director of Information Security to Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Tony Clancy has been named SVP of engineering from his previous position at CentralSquare Technologies. www.connectwise.com Murphy joins Five9 as CMO Five9 has announced the appointment of Genefa Murphy, PhD, an industry recognised global marketer with an impressive background in enterprise software as the company’s new Chief Marketing Officer. CEO Rowan Trollope said: “Genefa joins Five9 at an exciting time in the company’s journey as we continue to grow our markets internationally, and continue our expansion into large enterprises. She brings years of global enterprise software experience, a fresh perspective, and has a proven track record of scaling high performing marketing teams, all of which will help fuel our company trajectory as we continue to affirm our leadership in the cloud contact centre space.” www.five9.com Sage to drive partner channel strategy Newly appointed Executive Vice President Aziz Benmalek, will be responsible for leading the strategy to support the success of Sage’s ecosystem of partners, ISVs, app developers and strategic alliances to drive mutual growth. Bringing deep customer and partner knowledge, Benmalek’s remit will see him supporting Sage’s global partners in evolving their businesses toward SaaS revenue models, and further building the breadth and depth of the Sage Business Cloud portfolio with add-on cloud solutions. He joins Sage from Splunk Inc. where he was Vice President of Worldwide Indirect Sales, Partners and Business Development. He also previously spent 22 years at Microsoft in various roles, including Vice President of Worldwide Cloud and Managed Service Providers, and General Manager of Hosting and Cloud Services. www.sage.com Rajiv Ramaswami Rob Tribe Jamie Domenici