Cyber Job Moves: New Leadership Across AI, Identity and Global Security

Nick Andersen – CISAThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has named Nick Andersen as Interim Director following the departure of Madhu Gottumukkala from the acting director role. Andersen previously served as Executive Director for Cybersecurity at CISA and has held cybersecurity and IT leadership roles across the U.S. Coast Guard, Navy and Department of Energy. Gottumukkala will transition to a new role at the Department of Homeland Security as Director of Strategic Implementation. (source)

Latha Maripuri – Nscale

Latha Maripuri has joined Nscale as CISO, where she will define and execute the company’s global security strategy across platform, infrastructure, operations, and supply chain. Maripuri will oversee physical, information, and infrastructure security. Maripuri brings over 25 years of experience, most recently serving as CISO at Uber and previously as Global CISO and Deputy CTO at News Corp. (source)

Latha Sirigiri – Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks has appointed Latha Sirigiri as Director – Human Resources for India. She brings more than 18 years of HR experience in cybersecurity and enterprise technology firms, most recently serving as Director – HR for India at CyberArk. Sirigiri will support workforce scaling, talent strategy, and organizational alignment at Palo Alto Networks. (source)

Satyen Desai – Tanium

Satyen Desai has joined Tanium as Regional Vice President for ASEAN, where he will lead growth strategy and regional expansion. He brings over 25 years of enterprise technology leadership experience, with previous roles at Cloudflare, Oracle, SAP, and Cisco. Desai will focus on strengthening regional go-to-market execution and deepening customer engagement across sectors. (source)

Junya Saito – Tanium

Tanium has appointed Junya Saito as Vice President, APAC, to oversee commercial leadership in the region. He will lead revenue growth, sales strategy, and market expansion as the company scales its Autonomous Endpoint Management platform across Asia Pacific. (source)

James Greenwood – Tanium

Tanium has named James Greenwood as Assistant Vice President, Solution Engineering, APAC. He will lead regional solution engineering and pre-sales functions to support customer adoption of Tanium’s real-time endpoint visibility and security capabilities. (source)

Yasir Yousuff – Tanium

Tanium has also hired Yasir Yousuff as Vice President, Marketing, APJ, where he will oversee marketing strategy and execution across Asia Pacific and Japan. His role supports the firm’s broader regional expansion and customer engagement in endpoint security and operational resilience. (source)

Ajay Biyani – Securonix

Securonix has promoted Ajay Biyani to Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). He has led Securonix’s APJ operations since 2022, expanding adoption of the company’s Unified Defense SIEM platform across regulated sectors. Biyani will be focused on advancing AI-driven security and strengthening regional partnerships. (source)

Young-Sae Song – BreachRx

BreachRx has named Young-Sae Song as Chief Marketing Officer to lead global marketing and go-to-market strategy. He brings extensive cybersecurity marketing experience, most recently serving as CMO at Grip Security, with prior roles at Menlo Security and Arctic Wolf. At BreachRx, Song will focus on accelerating enterprise adoption of the platform. (source)

Meghan Marks – Axonius

Axonius has named Meghan Marks as Chief Marketing Officer to lead global marketing, brand strategy, product marketing, and demand generation. She joins from Orca Security, where she served as CMO, and previously led marketing for Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks. (source)

Jared Vichengrad – Axonius

Axonius has selected Jared Vichengrad as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Axonius Federal Systems, the company’s subsidiary serving U.S. federal cybersecurity needs. A veteran of Check Point and Rubrik, Vichengrad will lead efforts to support Zero Trust and asset visibility across federal agencies. (source)

Cynthia Lee – Delinea

Delinea has named Cynthia Lee as Vice President, APAC, to lead regional growth across Asia Pacific as demand rises for identity security and privileged access controls. She brings more than 20 years of cybersecurity experience, including at Cyberint, Aqua Security, and CyberArk. (source)

Chris Waynforth – Delinea

Delinea has brought on Chris Waynforth as Vice President, EMEA North, to oversee regional sales strategy and execution. He joins from Performanta, where he served as Chief Revenue Officer, and previously worked at Imperva and Splunk. Waynforth will focus on driving growth across Northern Europe. (source)

Adam Perks – Delinea

Delinea has appointed Adam Perks as Director of Channel, EMEA, to oversee partner and alliance expansion. With over two decades of experience in cybersecurity and enterprise software, he previously worked at Riverbed Technology, NetBrain, and Aternity. Perks will strengthen alliance strategy and increase partner-led revenue. (source)

Ted Plumis – Noma Security

Noma Security has brought on Ted Plumis to lead Go-to-Market Partnerships (GTM) as the company expands its AI security and governance. A security industry veteran with experience in startup and early-stage growth, Plumis has led sales, channel, MSSP/MDR, and cloud marketplace initiatives in multiple cybersecurity firms. (source)

Daniel Nguyen – KnowBe4

KnowBe4 has named Daniel Nguyen as Senior Director of Sales, APJ, to lead and scale its hybrid direct and channel go-to-market strategy across the region. He will oversee regional sales execution as the company expands its human and AI risk management platform across Asia Pacific and Japan. (source)

Steve Lee – KnowBe4

KnowBe4 has appointed Steve Lee as Director of Enterprise Sales for Asia, where he will focus on large enterprise accounts and expanding adoption of the company’s human risk management platform. His role supports KnowBe4’s continued push into enterprise security programmes across APJ. (source)

Manish Wali – KnowBe4

KnowBe4 has brought on Manish Wali as Director of Sales for SMB and Mid-Market, strengthening coverage across small and mid-sized organizations in APJ. He will focus on expanding access to KnowBe4’s platform amid rising demand for security awareness and human risk management solutions. (source)

Alex Low – KnowBe4

KnowBe4 has also appointed Alex Low as Director of Channel Sales for APJ, where he will lead partner engagement and support channel-led deployments across the region. His appointment reinforces KnowBe4’s strategy to scale through partner ecosystems in complex multi-country markets. (source)

Dhaval Damania – CISO Global

CISO Global has named Dhaval Damania as Executive Vice President of Cybersecurity & IT, expanding its executive leadership as it scales its AI-powered cybersecurity software portfolio. Damania will oversee cybersecurity and IT operations, strengthen enterprise security architecture, and align the company’s technology roadmap with business strategy. (source)

Alexei Pivkine – Snyk

Alexei Pivkine has taken on the role of Director – Expert Solutions (SME), supporting Technical AI go-to-market and Strategic Solutions Engineering teams at Snyk. He previously led the incubation of Snyk’s large-scale AI Security go-to-market motion in 2025. And worked at IBM for over 12 years in senior technical sales and application security leadership roles. (source)

Shawn Kelley – Bugcrowd

Shawn Kelley has joined Bugcrowd in a role focused on go-to-market strategy for AI and Data Partnerships. He previously worked at GitHub in enterprise application security sales. His earlier experience includes security sales leadership positions at AttackIQ, WhiteHat Security, Sumo Logic, Veracode and Sophos. Bugcrowd is a crowdsourced security company that connects organizations with trusted hackers to identify vulnerabilities. (source)