< PreviousExa Infrastructure Appoints Ariadna Ilie as VP Sales – Global Content and Hyperscalers EXA Infrastructure has appointed Ariadna Ilie as VP Sales to lead the Global Content and Hyperscalers group. In this newly created role, Ilie will lead a team serving some of the largest global content providers. She will strengthen the connection between EXA’s network investment strategy and enable customers to achieve their growth plans. Based in London, Ilie brings 19 years of industry experience to EXA, most recently at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where she led the European Backbone Team. Prior roles include leadership positions with Turk Telecom International and Telia Carrier. EXA has been on a roll recently, scooping two major Industry awards and has made a series of announcemens related to new network investments. “Alongside our infrastructure investments, we are also expanding our customer-facing teams across Europe and North America,” said Nicholas Collins, CCO at EXA Infrastructure. “Ariadna’s appointment strengthens our leadership team and she will play a vital role in the next chapter of EXA’s growth. I am delighted to have Ariadna on the team and know she will have a big impact.” On joining EXA, Ilie said: “I’m thrilled to be joining the talented team at EXA and contributing to the exciting and ambitious growth plans for 2023 and beyond. This industry means so much to me and joining a business with a clear mission to be the undisupted leaders in the digital infastructure market in Europe is incredibly exciting.” Niels Provos Joins Lacework as Head of Security Efficacy Lacework has announced the appointment of Niels Provos as the company’s first Head of Security Efficacy. Provos brings nearly two decades of industry experience in creating healthy engineering teams that build security infrastructure and systems that solve cloud security problems at scale. He puts a particular emphasis on treating security as an engineering problem. After receiving his PhD in computer science from the University of Michigan, Provos spent over 15 years supporting the development of Google’s security and privacy engineering practice, such as helping to establish Safe Browsing which protects over four billion devices on the internet. He then joined Stripe in 2018 as Head of Security where he set Stripe on a path towards a world-class security posture to help build significant trust with customers and to be ready for the public markets. To keep himself balanced and get more people interested in working in the security domain, he also produces cybersecurity-themed EDM tracks under his artist name Activ8te. “I have helped to build two world-class security organisations and during that time have seen adversaries become more sophisticated and attacks increase in frequency and volume. I deeply believe that every company needs to be enabled to protect their customers' data against threats from outside or inside. That’s why my next challenge is being part of a team with the greater mission of helping customers be secure in a more hostile environment,” said Provos. “Lacework is in a great position, focusing on customer outcomes that matter, to help scale security like no other company before.” “Niels is one of the strongest security-minded leaders in the world with a long track record of building world-class security organisations. He truly understands the challenges security professionals face in today’s cloud environments and how to solve them,” said Jay Parikh, CEO, Lacework. “Niels will help us to continue delivering new innovations in the Polygraph Data Platform, bringing the security excellence he built at Stripe and Google to customers of all sizes and industries.” Do you have a mover or shaker to introduce to the data centre industry? editor@networkseuropemagazine.com MOVERS AND SHAKERS www.networkseuropemagazine.com 70THE UK'S LEADING INDEPENDENT SHOW FOR PROJECT, PROGRAMME AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT, PMO AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT QEII Centre in Westminster, London | 27th April 2023 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER www.project-challenge.com/ MOVERS AND SHAKERS 71 Comms365 appoints John Whitty as Chairman IT Services and Channel veteran, John Whitty, joins the Comms365 board to help foster even deeper Channel relationships with new and existing partners – both large and small. Comms365 has taken the next step in its growth plan by appointing the highly experienced Whitty as Chairman of the Board. Whitty’s ICT experience tracks back to the 80’s, when he was a member of The Royal Corps of Signals for nearly two decades, before moving into the Private sector as CTO of Pipex Communications. He has since held leadership roles at Kabel-X, GCI Com and Solar Communications (as CEO, MD and CEO, respectively). More recently, he was the CEO of Air IT before being invited to become Chairman of Gradwell Communications in July 2022. As Chairman of Comms365, Whitty will spread his wealth of knowledge and experience even further across the Channel, leveraging decades of well-built relationships to enable Comms365 to collaborate even deeper with Channel organisations of all sizes. “Our Channel is full of remarkable technology and even more amazing people. Having previously worked with the Comms365 management team, I am extremely pleased to be invited to join them and help lead, and connect the business to more of those same amazing people and technologies. The technical solutions delivered by Comms365 are critical to all businesses given their reliance on ‘always on’ connectivity, which will, in turn, benefit the entire Channel ecosystem - from our vendor partners and direct customers to our reseller partners and their end- customers,” said Whitty. Mike van Bunnens, Comms365’s MD, is looking forward to working with Whitty and experiencing first-hand the impact he will have on the operation. He commented, “We’re accelerating our growth, and John’s experience in rapidly building technology businesses in such a fast-paced industry, will be instrumental in helping us define, refine and execute the right strategy to achieve our goals. He’s already seamlessly integrated himself within the business, and we’re all excited to see how John can develop the business and ourselves, even further.” Mayflex Appoints Adam Herring as Director of Sales for Security Mayflex has appointed Adam Herring in the role of Director of Sales for Security. Herring has extensive experience in the security industry having previously worked for Eagle Eye Networks since 2021 and prior to that he worked for Hanwha Techwin Europe for over 6 years in various strategic sales and business development roles. Ross McLetchie, Sales Director at Mayflex commented, “We are delighted to welcome Adam to the team, he has great drive and energy and strong leadership qualities which will all be crucial for driving continued growth of our security focused business.” McLetchie continued, “With Adam’s background in cloud-based technology he is well placed to lead the uptake of the recently launched, AVA solution, as well as other cloud based solutions soon to be introduced. He will also be driving the sales and working closely with our security vendors including Avigilon, Axis, Hikvision, Milestone, Mobotix, Paxton, Pelco, Suprema and Wavestore to name but a few.” Herring commented, “I’m excited to join Mayflex and to lead the external security sales team. Having access to such a choice of quality brands really does ensure that we have a solution for every technology and budget requirement. I’m very much looking forward to getting to know the team and then getting out to meet as many customers as possible.” NETWORKS EUROPE reaches a readership of 26,000 network infrastructure professionals throughout Europe, landing on the desks of data centre managers, facilities managers, CIOs, CTOs, ICT directors, consultants, network managers, integrators and many others in the data centre industry. NETWORKS EUROPE features editorial contributions from worldwide industry figureheads, ensuring that it's the world's best publication for information on all aspects of this constantly evolving industry. 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