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Changes in the Channel: Leadership Moves and Shakeups May 18 – May 22

The channel is all about people - and we're tracking who they are, what they're doing, and where they're making an impact. Instead of sprinkling these people-focused announcements across various roundups, we're pulling them all together into one weekly story.

And here are the people moves we've tracked during the week of May 18 - May 22.


IRONSCALES appoints Steve McKenzie as COO: IRONSCALES has named Steve McKenzie as COO to oversee go-to-market alignment, customer success, and revenue operations as it expands its AI-powered email security platform. McKenzie brings more than two decades of enterprise SaaS and email security leadership experience. Prior to joining IRONSCALES, he served as chief customer and revenue officer at LinkSquares and spent more than nine years at Mimecast across senior leadership roles spanning customer success, sales, and marketing.

SecureAuth appoints Mark van Oppen as CRO: SecureAuth appointed Mark van Oppen to lead global sales and marketing efforts. Van Oppen brings enterprise infrastructure and identity leadership experience from roles at IBM, VMware, FusionAuth, and Heptio. At SecureAuth, he will focus on scaling enterprise adoption of the company’s identity platform across workforce identity, customer identity, APIs, and AI agents.

Keepit appoints James Dwyer as CRO: Keepit has named James Dwyer to lead its global revenue organization, including sales, partnerships, customer success, renewals, and business development. Dwyer brings leadership experience across data security, data management, and access management markets, with a background in scaling go-to-market teams during periods of rapid technology and operational change.

Diebold Nixdorf appoints Raj Singh as CIO: Diebold Nixdorf has named Raj Singh as executive vice president and CIO. Singh brings nearly 30 years of technology and digital transformation experience across financial services, automotive, and energy sectors. Most recently, he served as CIO at Visteon, where he led enterprise AI, cloud modernization, and cybersecurity initiatives. Earlier in his career, he held senior technology leadership roles at Ford Motor Company, DTE Energy, Horizon Global, and Ally Financial.

Apono appoints Nisim Cohen as CFO: Apono has named Nisim Cohen as CFO while also adding Valery Milman and Patrick Drago to strengthen customer and sales operations. Cohen brings experience in finance, operations, fundraising, and scaling SaaS and cybersecurity companies. Milman joins with more than two decades of cybersecurity and go-to-market leadership experience focused on pre-sales and customer-facing operations. Drago brings sales leadership experience from high-growth technology and cybersecurity companies, including work tied to multiple successful exits.


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