VAST Data Readies for Next Stage of Growth, Strengthens Executive Team with New Leaders in Finance, Sales & Customer Success Helen Protopapas, Tom Whaley and Rick Franke to further round out customer-focused global expansion
February 02, 2021 14:32 ET | Source: VAST Data VAST Data
NEW YORK, Feb. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
VAST Data, the storage company breaking decades-old tradeoffs, today announced the appointment of three industry leaders to its executive team. VAST is hiring Helen Protopapas as Vice President of Finance, Tom Whaley as Vice President of Sales, and Rick Franke as Vice President of Global Customer Success, Services and Support. The additions come amid accelerated global expansion and customer adoption as the company continues its period of hypergrowth.
Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation.
Udacity Welcomes Dana Bennett As Chief People Officer
February 2, 2021 GMT
Udacity Logo (PRNewsfoto/Udacity)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Udacity, the global online learning platform that trains the world’s workforce for the careers of the future, today announced that Dana Bennett will join the company as its Chief People Officer. Leveraging 20 years of experience in developing product and people strategies at companies such as Mozilla and Apple, Bennett’s efforts will ensure that Udacity’s employees and work culture keep up with its continued growth.
Venafi Study: CIOs Massively Underestimate SSH Risks
, the inventor and leading provider of machine identity management, today released a new report offering insights into the security risks that poorly protected Secure Shell (SSH) machine identities pose to enterprises. The report compares findings from a survey of 550 global CIOs with unique data and insights from aggregate SSH risk assessments conducted by Venafi SSH security experts. SSH machine identities are critical to digital transformation strategies, as they authenticate privileged access between machines and are ubiquitous across enterprise networks. While CIOs say they are concerned about the security risks SSH machine identities pose, Venafi data indicates they seriously underestimate the scope of these risks. To better understand the scale of this problem, Venafi surveyed over global 550 CIOs and then compared the survey data with aggregate SSH risk assessments conducted over a two-year time period. The Venafi Risk
Udacity Names Jennifer Dearman To Head Global Customer Success
Latest role follows executive positions leading customer success for Red Hat, Kronos, Pendo.io
News provided by
Share this article
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Udacity, the global online learning platform that trains the world s workforce for the careers of the future, has announced the appointment of Jennifer Dearman as its Senior Vice President of Global Success and Operations. Leveraging more than 25 years of experience in leading customer success and engagement teams, Dearman s efforts will further accelerate Udacity s growth in the enterprise marketplace. We re only successful if our customers are successful, and our enterprise growth has, in no small part, been driven by our amazing customer success team. They re responsible for ensuring our clients achieve significant business outcomes from their engagements with Udacity, and they absolutely excel in these efforts, said Gabe Dalport
“Ban the word “fit” from hiring discussions ”, With Douglas Brown and April Oman of D2L
Know who your customers are, how they measure success of the relationship with you/offering you provide. Hire the right people and then empower them to do the best work of their careers. Celebrate wins. Asa part of my series about “Lessons From Inspirational Women Leaders in Tech”, I had the pleasure of interviewing April Oman, a transformative […]
The Thrive Global Community welcomes voices from many spheres on our open platform. We publish pieces as written by outside contributors with a wide range of opinions, which don’t necessarily reflect our own. Community stories are not commissioned by our editorial team and must meet our guidelines prior to being published.