30 Notable IT Executive Moves: March 2026

Xerox, Caylent, PayPal, JumpCloud, SentinelOne and Acronis were among tech giants to make significant executive moves during March 2026.

New CEOs at Xerox, Caylent and PayPal were among the biggest executive moves of February 2026.

Taking those spots, respectively, were Louie Pastor, formerly with Icahn Enterprises; Val Henderson, formerly of Rackspace Technology; and Enrique Lores, formerly with HP.

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March 2026 Tech Executive Moves

JumpCloud, SentinelOne and Acronis were among other tech giants to make significant executive moves during the month as companies invested in talent for overseeing sales, technology and partners. Those executives, respectively, were:

Read on for more of the 30 notable IT executive moves in February 2026.

Roland Palmer

Palmer joined JumpCloud in March, taking on the role of CISO and vice president of security.

Palmer came to the Louisville, Colo.-based IT management platform vendor after about eight years with Sumo Logic, according to his LinkedIn account. He left Sumo Logic with the title of vice president of security and compliance.

In this role, he owned “three distinct budgets totaling $5M, balancing lean resources with strategic resource allocation to ensure operational resilience” and drove “enterprise-wide IT, audit, and compliance initiatives across Global Security Operations Center, overseeing four business facilities and security operations sites while leading high-performance team of 12,” according to his LinkedIn account.

His resume includes about 20 years with the U.S. Marine Corps, including time as a security operations leader.

JumpCloud offers a partner program for MSPs, resellers and other solution provider business models.

Mark Wong

In March, Wong returned to Acronis as chief corporate and business development officer, a role in which he leads company strategic priorities and oversees legal, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and government and regulatory affairs.

The Schaffhausen, Switzerland-based security vendor hired Wong after he worked at Veeam for about nine years, according to his LinkedIn account. He left Veeam with the title of senior vice president of legal and “played a pivotal role leading the global legal and compliance departments in scaling the workforce from 1,700 to 7,500 employees and achieving $2.0 billion in ARR.”

His previous tenure at Acronis lasted about seven years, with Wong leaving in 2017 as general counsel.

Acronis has about 70,000 partners worldwide, according to CRN’s 2026 Channel Chiefs.

Louie Pastor

Xerox promoted Pastor to CEO in March, succeeding Steve Bandrowczak.

Pastor has been with the Norwalk, Conn.-based workplace and digital printing product vendor for about eight years, most recently serving as president and COO, according to his LinkedIn account.

He joined Xerox in 2018 as executive vice president and general counsel. He previously worked at Icahn Enterprises and Icahn Capital for about five years, leaving as deputy general counsel.

Xerox has 9,400 North American partners, according to CRN’s 2026 Partner Program Guide.

Sonalee Parekh

In March, Parekh became CFO of SentinelOne, with interim CFO Barry Padgett moving into the role of president and COO.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based cybersecurity company hired Parekh after she served as Asana’s CFO for about two years, according to her LinkedIn account.

Her resume includes about three years as CFO of RingCentral, leaving the communications vendor in 2024.

SentinelOne has about 5,000 partners worldwide, according to CRN’s 2026 Channel Chiefs.

Val Henderson

Henderson became CEO of Caylent in March.

Henderson has been with the Irvine, Calif.-based solution provider for about five years, according to her LinkedIn account. She most recently served as Caylent’s president for about three years and CRO before that.

Her resume includes about a year with Rackspace Technology as vice president of the cloud-native business, leaving in 2021. She also spent about 11 years with SHI, leaving in 2020 with the title of area vice president for the Central U.S.

Enrique Lores

Lores started his new role as president and CEO at PayPal in March.

Lores came to the San Jose, Calif.-based payments platform after serving as president and CEO of HP Inc. for about six years, according to his LinkedIn account. He previously held the role of HP’s president of imaging, printing and solutions business.

He joined HP 36 years ago when it was part of Hewlett-Packard as an engineering intern. He rose through the ranks to take HP’s top job four years after the company separated from the server vendor now referred to as HPE.

Sumit Chauhan

As part of a series of promotions at Microsoft in March, Chauhan received a title upgrade to president.

Chauhan has been with the Redmond, Wash.-based technology giant for about 30 years, according to her LinkedIn account. She served as a corporate vice president before her promotion and remains “head of the Office Organization leading Microsoft’s flagship products— Word, PowerPoint and Excel across desktop, mobile and web end points with a mission to create the next generation of authoring and storytelling experiences powered by new and powerful AI services.”

Other roles she’s held at Microsoft include general manager of Office engineering and development manager for Office.

The March promotions also include Charles Lamanna taking on the title of executive vice president of agents and business applications; Pavan Davuluri becoming executive vice president of Windows and devices, and Kirk Koenigsbauer taking on the title of president and COO of the experiences and devices group.

Microsoft has about 500,000 partners worldwide, according to CRN’s 2026 Channel Chiefs.

Tara Martin

Martin joined Leidos in March, taking on the role of senior vice president of growth for the defense sector.

Martin came to the Reston, Va.-based company—No. 10 on CRN’s 2025 Solution Provider 500—after about two years with CACI International, according to her LinkedIn account. She left CACI with the title of senior vice president of business development, leading a “team across CACI’s 4 Technology focused Lines of Business-Spectrum Superiority, Cyber, Space, and Command Control Communications and Intelligence.”

Her resume includes about four years with L3Harris Technologies, leaving the company in 2024 with the title of vice president of business development for the maritime sector.

Michael Gray

In March, Qlik brought on Gray as senior vice president of global channels and alliances, the company’s new global channel chief.

Gray comes to the King of Prussia, Pa.-based business intelligence and data integration vendor after about a year with Arctera, according to his LinkedIn account. He served as Arctera’s vice president of global channels and alliances and was a founding executive of the $400 million annual recurring revenue company with 1,500 employees formed through a strategic spin-off of Veritas Technologies. Cloud Software Group, parent of Citrix, bought Arctera in December.

His resume includes about three years with Veritas as regional vice president of cloud solution sales and about five years with Oracle, leaving in 2022 as regional vice president of open cloud software sales.

Qlik has about 400 partners in North America, according to CRN’s 2026 Partner Program Guide.

Chris Moore

Moore became vice president of global channels at Check Point Software Technologies in March.

Moore took on the channel chief role at the Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity vendor after about six years with CyberArk, according to his LinkedIn account. He left CyberArk with the title of senior vice president of global channels. Palo Alto Networks bought CyberArk in February.

Moore’s resume includes about five years with Qlik. He left the company in 2020 with the title of senior vice president of channels and alliances.

Check Point has about 5,000 partners in North America, according to CRN’s 2026 Partner Program Guide.

Kevin O’Buckley

O’Buckley joined Qualcomm in March, taking on the role of executive vice president of manufacturing and technology.

O’Buckley came to the San Diego-based chipmaker after about two years with rival Intel, according to his LinkedIn account. He left Intel with the title of senior vice president and general manager of Intel Foundry, a $15 billion-plus business.

His resume includes about five years with Marvell Technology, leaving in 2024 as a senior vice president for the 1,500-member compute and custom engineering teams.

David Smith

Smith has become Google’s new channel chief and head of partner programs, succeeding Colleen Kapase.

Smith has been with the Mountain View, Calif.-based AI and cloud giant since November with a role working with its ecosystem, according to his LinkedIn account. Kapase had held the role of vice president of channels and partner programs since 2023.

Smith spent 27 years as Microsoft, most recently serving as vice president of worldwide channel sales.

Google has about 100,000 partners worldwide, according to CRN’s 2026 Channel Chiefs.

DeAnna Luna

Luna became acting chief compliance officer and vice president at Supermicro in March.

Luna has been with the San Jose, Calif.-based IT infrastructure product vendor for about two years, previously serving as vice president of global trade compliance and leading Supermicro’s global compliance strategy for export controls, sanctions and international trade, according to her LinkedIn account.

Her resume includes about a year with Intel, leaving in 2024 as director of global export licensing and classification.

Rachel Nislick

Orca Security hired Nislick in March as CMO.

Nislick joined the Portland, Ore.-based security vendor after about three years with Darktrace, according to her LinkedIn account. She left Darktrace with the title of vice president of marketing and played “a central role in scaling the business from $500m to $1b in revenue through disciplined GTM alignment and data-driven execution.”

Her resume includes about seven years with Mimecast, leaving the company in 2023 as vice president of growth marketing. At Mimecast, she was “responsible for building global go-to-market digital strategy to help scale the company from $150M to $750M,” according to her LinkedIn account.

Orca has about 500 partners worldwide, according to CRN’s 2026 Channel Chiefs.

Alex Au Yeung

In March, Trellix hired Yeung as chief product officer.

The Plano, Texas-based security vendor brought him on after he worked at Axiad for about two years as CPO, according to his LinkedIn account.

His resume includes about eight years with Symantec, leaving the security vendor in 2024 with the chief product officer title. He joined Symantec in 2016 through the acquisition of Blue Coat Systems, and he joined Blue Coat through the 2015 acquisition of Elastica, according to his LinkedIn account. Broadcom bought Symantec in 2019.

Trellix’s top channel goals in 2026 include making it easier for partners to grow, differentiate and deliver value to customers plus strengthening how partners engage with Trellix across marketing, enablement and sales alignment, according to CRN’s 2026 Partner Program Guide.

Carmen True

In March, True returned to HP Inc. as its new senior vice president for solutions marketing.

True came to the Palo Alto, Calif.-based computermaker after about four years with Qualcomm, according to her LinkedIn account. She left Qualcomm with the title of vice president of compute marketing. Some of her accomplishments in the role include increasing “B2B ITDM awareness of Snapdragon from 20% to 52% and Purchase intent by +35% with 7,000 active leads in pipeline” and increasing business-to-consumer (B2C) awareness “from 15% to 30% and grew preference by +11%and purchase intent by +15%.”

She previously worked at HP and its predecessor Hewlett-Packard for about 25 years. She left HP in 2022 with the title of vice president of print marketing worldwide go-to-market.

In 2026, HP is investing in deal-level incentives, back-end performance incentives, certification and training, automation tools and other parts of its channel budget, according to CRN’s 2026 Partner Program Guide.

Ritu Mukherjee

Mukherjee returned to RingCentral in March, taking on the role of chief product officer.

Mukherjee came back to the Belmont, Calif.-based communications vendor after about five years with rival Zoom, according to her LinkedIn account. She left Zoom with the title of vice president of product management.

She previously worked at RingCentral for about 10 years, leaving in 2021 as senior vice president of product management.

RingCentral has about 16,000 partners worldwide, according to CRN’s 2026 Channel Chiefs.

Mark Ostrowski

Atlantic Data Security hired Ostrowski as CTO in March.

Ostrowski came to the East Hartford, Conn.-based company—No. 364 on CRN’s 2025 Solution Provider 500—after about 23 years with Check Point Software Technologies, according to his LinkedIn account. He left Check Point with the title of head of U.S. East sales, a member of the office of the CTO and evangelist.

At Check Point, he “provided thought leadership for the IT security industry, outlining the current threat landscape and helping organizations understand how they can proactively mitigate and manage risk in our world of digital transformation and artificial intelligence,” according to an ADS statement.

Marcy Heronimus

Heronimus joined GTT in March, taking on the role of senior vice president of legal.

In this role, she “will oversee litigation, labor & employment, and a variety of other areas across the legal function,” according to her LinkedIn account.

Heronimus came to the Arlington, Va.-based company—a member of CRN’s 2026 MSP 500—after about 14 years with Lumen Technologies and its predecessor, CenturyLink. She left Lumen with the title of vice president and deputy general counsel.

Jirah Cox

Storied Tech brought on Cox as its new CTO in March.

Cox joined the Charlotte, N.C.-based company—a member of CRN’s 2026 MSP 500—after less than a year as a principal cloud architect with Infoblox, according to his LinkedIn account.

His resume includes about eight years with Nutanix. He left the vendor in 2025 with the title of field CTO for the Americas.

Mark Prout

Prout, executive vice president and chief information and technology officer of Conduent, departed the company in March, according to a regulatory filing.

Prout had been with the Florham, N.J.-based company—No. 29 on CRN’s 2025 Solution Provider 500—for about seven years, according to his LinkedIn account. As CITO, he was “accountable for the full technology ecosystem of a $4B+ enterprise” and “led a global team of 10,000 associates across 17 countries with a $1.4B budget.”

His resume includes about 14 years with Fiserv. He left the company in 2019 as CTO.

Dee Burger

Burger left his role as Insight’s North America president in March, ahead of Jack Azagury’s April start as president and CEO.

Burger worked at the Chandler, Ariz.-based company—a member of CRN’s 2026 MSP 500—for about four years, according to his LinkedIn account. He came to Insight after about 30 years with Capgemini.

He left Capgemini as executive vice president of cloud infrastructure services, insights and data, Capgemini Invent, business services and Capgemini engineering and other global business lines in North American market.

Parag Patwardhan

Patwardhan joined Techstra Solutions in March as vice president of enterprise technology.

In this role, he is “responsible for shaping the strategic direction of the organization and driving companywide success, especially DFW location leadership,” according to his LinkedIn account.

Patwardhan came to the Pittsburgh-based solution provider after about four years with KPMG. He left KPMG as a director. During his time with the consulting giant, he “developed technology asset strategy for climate risk solutions in Financial Services, creating frameworks to capture financed emissions data and translate sustainability trends into actionable investment and risk management strategies,” according to his LinkedIn account.

Bidish Sarkar

Sarkar returned to Genpact in March, taking on the role of senior vice president of data and AI.

In this role, Sarkar is “responsible for driving Genpact’s Data & AI strategy and growth across multiple Business Units such as Life Sciences, Healthcare, Retail, Consumer Good, Media and Hi-Tech,” according to his LinkedIn account. He previously worked at Genpact for about five years, leaving in 2019 as a vice president and service line leader within the Consumer Goods, Retail, Life Sciences & Health care vertical.

He returned to Genpact after working at Persistent Systems for about seven years. He left Perfistent with the title of corporate vice president and head of data, integration and AI.

Jim Regnery

In March, Argano hired Regnery as vice president of client accounts.

Regnery joined the Plano, Texas-based solution provider after about four years with KPMG, accordingto his LinkedIn account. He left KPMG with the title of advisory managing director for Microsoft alliance U.S. sales.

His resume includes about five years with Cognizant and New Signature, which Cognizant acquired in 2020. He left Cognizant in 2022 with the title of U.S. general manager at the Cognizant Microsoft Business Group.

Jamie Bails

Bails became managing partner and chief strategy officer at Link ERP Partners in March.

In this role, she will “help guide strategy for an Infor-focused services firm committed to delivering knowledgeable, efficient, and creative ERP solutions tailored to each client,” according to her LinkedIn account.

Bails joined the Bradenton, Fla.-based solution provider after about three years with Nordic Global, which acquired her Bails & Associates business in 2021. She left Nordic with the title of senior vice president of ERP services.

Peter Oppermann

In March, Anura Connect hired Oppermann as vice president of business development.

The Madison, Wis.-based Epic-focused solution provider hired Oppermann after he worked at Nordic Global for about 10 years, according to his LinkedIn account. He left Nordic with the title of vice president of client partnerships.

His resume includes about two years with Wolters Kluwer Health, leaving the software provider in 2016 with the title of customer success team manager.

Rich Lilly

Refoundry hired Lilly in March as its CTO and partner.

In this role, he will “help guide the evolution of Refoundry’s Microsoft-focused consulting and managed services platform, working with organizations to modernize security, identity, cloud, and AI capabilities,” according to his LinkedIn account.

The Chicago-based Microsoft-focused solution provider brought on Lilly after he worked at Netrix Global for about 10 years. He left Netrix with the title of field CTO for security.

In this role, he worked “with our clients and internal engineers on a strategic level regarding Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Identity solutions,” which included “developing long-term implementation roadmaps, prioritization, and aligning expectations and resource requirements to accomplish these goals, with a specialty in Microsoft solutions such as Defender, Purview and Entra.”

Daniel Massarsky

Coalfire hired Massarsky in March, tasking him with the role of senior vice president and chief AI and data officer.

Massarsky came to the Chicago-based solution provider after about five years with Google, according to his LinkedIn account. He left Google with the title of global lead for applied AI and adoption within Google’s consulting practice.

His resume includes about five years with Qlik. He left the vendor in 2021 as global practice lead for Qlik developer platform professional services.

Hari Abhyankar

Persistent Systems hired Abhyankar in March as executive vice president and global head of private equity and professional services.

In this role, Abhyankar “will lead Persistent’s global strategy and growth across private equity investors, their portfolio companies and professional services organizations,” according to a company statement. He will work “with clients to accelerate revenue growth, enable platform modernization and drive faster realization of transformation priorities across portfolios, while also expanding EBITDA through improved operational efficiency and value creation.”

Abhyankar joined the Pune, India-based solution provider after about a year with PathLLM as CRO. With PathLLM, he was “responsible for all aspects of growth – product strategy, positioning, and GTM excellence” and “pipeline and revenue generation; first horizon focuses on indirect/channel partner led-sales (GSIs and agency networks),” according to his LinkedIn account.

His resume includes about 11 years with McKinsey & Co., leaving in 2024 as a partner.