Movers

Cloud provider Rackspace has hired Sandy Hogan as executive vice president and managing director of the Americas, Sandy Hogan will serve as a member of the Rackspace executive leadership team.

Global cloud services and web hosting provider GoDaddy has hired Fara Howard as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Ms. Howard will lead all aspects of GoDaddy's marketing strategy and execution.

Corelight has opened a new sales office outside the North American market in Europe. The company also named Steve Mallard as vice president of international sales who will be based out of London, UK.

STACK has appointed Heather Paduck as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mrs. Paduck will lead STACK’s financial strategy and operations, including finance, accounting, and capital raising.

Element Critical has appointed Wayne Dietrich as Chief Revenue Officer. Previously, Mr. Dietrich was Chief Sales Officer for Cologix.

DigitalOcean, a global provider of cloud hosting services for developers, has announced the appointment of Barry Cooks as chief technology officer (CTO).

Scalyr, a log management and dedicated server monitoring service created and run by two former Google engineers, has hired tech industry veteran and growth specialist, Christine Heckart as its new CEO.

Liquid Web, a global provider of managed hosting and managed application services to SMBs and web professionals, has appointed Taylor Rhodes to their board of directors.

ThreatX has hired cybersecurity industry veterans David Roshak and Mike Reagan as CFO and COO respectively. Bringing Mr. Roshak and Mr. Reagan on board would allow ThreatX to strengthen its executive team and tap their wealth of industry knowledge to accelerate ThreatX’s growth and WAF market leadership.

Alex Fine a long-time veteran of the Parallels family of businesses initially responsible in 2006 for managing the emerging Parallels Desktop division in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, has joined virtualization software provider Virtuozzo as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

WekaIO, a company delivering NVMe-native high-performance software-defined storage solutions, has appointed Derek Burke as sales manager for the UK. Mr. Burke will be responsible for identifying new business opportunities in the region, managing channel relationships and growing sales.

Developer cloud provider DigitalOcean, a $200 million company, has hired two industry veterans to strengthen its management team and the company’s sales, marketing, business development and support capabilities. Jeff Giannetti has been appointed as DigitalOcean’s Chief Customer Officer while Anthony Ricco will take the role of Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

YotaScale, a privately held company headquartered in Menlo Park, California, has appointed Mike Hoffman as Chief Revenue Officer. A seasoned sales leader, Mr. Hoffman’s most recent position was CRO at Aryaka Networks, an SD-WAN-as-a-Service provider.

Qumulo, a pioneer of hybrid cloud storage, has hired Molly Presley to lead its worldwide product marketing. Presley brings deep storage experience to Qumulo, where she will focus on fueling the company’s go-to-market strategy as it continues to grow on a global scale.