30 Notable IT Executive Moves: April 2026

OpenText, Oracle, Trustifi, Insight, WorkSmart, Intech Systems, Wipro and Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. were among tech companies to make significant executive moves during April 2026.

New CEOs of Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A.’s managed IT services division, OpenText, Trustifi, Insight and WorkSmart were among the biggest executive moves of April 2026.

Taking those spots, respectively, were Michael Hamuka, formerly of WorkSmart; Ayman Antoun, formerly of IBM; Jeff Spridgeon, formerly of Mimecast; Jack Azagury, formerly of Accenture; and Donald DeMarco, formerly of NexusTek.

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April 2026 Tech Executive Moves

Intech Systems, Wipro and Oracle were among other tech companies to make significant executive moves during the month as companies invested in talent for overseeing sales, technology and partners. Those executives, respectively, were:

On Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that nonfarm payroll employment went up by 115,000 in April. The unemployment rate stayed unchanged at 4.3 percent.

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

Ayman Antoun

In April, OpenText began its Ayman Antoun era. Former interim CEO James McGourlay moved into the role of president and chief client officer.

Antoun took on the role of CEO of the Waterloo, Ontario-based cybersecurity vendor following about three years as president of IBM Americas, according to his LinkedIn account. He spent about 30 years with IBM.

He initially joined IBM in 1988 and took a two-year break to work at Bell before returning to the mainframe and cloud products giant.

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

Jack Azagury

Jack Azagury started as president and CEO of Insight in April.

Azagury came to the Chandler, Ariz.-based company–No. 20 on CRN’s 2025 Solution Provider 500–after about 30 years with Accenture, according to his LinkedIn account.

He left Accenture–No. 1 on the same list–with the title of group chief executive for consulting, a role he held for about three years. Past roles with Accenture include senior managing director and market unit lead for the Northeastern U.S. and a global management committee member.

Hilary Maxson

Hilary Maxson started in April as Oracle’s chief financial officer.

Maxson came to the Austin, Texas-based database products vendor after about nine years with Schneider Electric, leaving with the executive vice president and group CFO title she held for about six years, according to her LinkedIn account.

She previously served as Schneider Electric’s senior vice president and CFO of energy management for about a year and senior vice president of finance and CFO of the vendor’s building and IT business.

Her resume includes about 12 years with energy company AES, leaving in 2017 as CFO of Asia.

Oracle’s NetSuite division has said it expects greater investments and focus on deal-level incentives, certification and training, program and other partner marketing and other channel budget areas over the next 12 months, according to CRN’s 2026 Partner Program Guide.

Jim Ortbals

Lumen Technologies revealed in April that it hired Jim Ortbals as senior vice president of Global Partner Solutions (GPS).

Ortbals joined the Monroe, La.-based telecommunications vendor after serving as senior vice president of global partner ecosystems for cybersecurity company BeyondTrust for about two years, according to his LinkedIn account.

He also worked at Deep Instinct for about two years as vice president of global channels, leaving in 2024.

Lumen expects the number of channel partners it works with to increase within the next 12 months, according to CRN’s 2026 Channel Chiefs.

Eric Boyd

Eric Boyd joined Anthropic in April as head of infrastructure.

Boyd came to the San Francisco-based maker of the Claude artificial intelligence tool after about 17 years with Microsoft, according to his LinkedIn account. He left Microsoft with the title of president of the AI platform.

AI platform delivered “the Microsoft Foundry where developers can use the Azure OpenAI Service to build their own Agents applications on the most powerful models from OpenAI, Anthropic, or the best from across the industry,” according to his LinkedIn account.

AI platform also provided “Foundry IQ, the toolset for bringing data into Agentic experiences” and powered “all of Microsoft's 1st party Copilot applications as well as all of our Machine Learning teams on the Azure AI Platform.”

Adnan Bhutta

In April, Adnan Bhutta joined DevRev to work on go-to-market.

Bhutta came to the Palo Alto, Calif.-based customer support and product development platform provider after about five years with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, according to his LinkedIn account. He left HPE with the title of vice president of sales, hybrid cloud software and AI managed operations.

His resume includes about 11 years with Dell Technologies, leaving the computer maker in 2021 as VP and general manager of Dell’s data center sales organization for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

DevRev has a partner program for solutions partners, implementation partners and other solution provider business models. Partners include 2025 Solution Provider 500 membersVerinext, Incedo and Intuitive Cloud.

Jeff Spridgeon

Jeff Spridgeon became CEO of Trustifi in April, succeeding co-founder Rom Hendler.

Spridgeon takes the top job at the New York-based AI-powered email security and compliance vendor after about nine years with Mimecast and the Aware company it purchased in 2024, according to his LinkedIn account. He left Mimecast with the title of vice president of strategic sales for Aware.

His resume includes about three years with Dell Technologies, leaving in 2016 as executive director of Dell Software Group sales. At Dell, he “managed a worldwide team of 150+ located in diverse locations to include the United States, Ireland and the Asia/Pacific region” and was “accountable for ~$500M in annual revenue,” according to his LinkedIn account.

Trustifi’s top channel goals for the year include adding more qualified partners, improving partner sales skills and encouraging partners to sell a broader part of the portfolio, according to CRN’s 2026 Channel Chiefs.

Michael Hamuka

In April, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. made Michael Hamuka CEO of its managed IT services division, which includes All Covered and IT Weapons.

Hamuka reports directly to CEO and President Sam Errigo, is part of the executive leadership team and partners closely with Todd Croteau, president of managed IT services in North America, who remains part of the executive leadership team and also continues to report directly to Errigo, according to a company statement.

He joined Ramsey, N.J.-based Konica Minolta–a member of CRN’s 2026 MSP 500–after about a year as CEO of Durham, N.C.-based MSP WorkSmart, according to his LinkedIn account. His resume includes about six years as chief revenue officer of NexusTek.

Donald DeMarco

WorkSmart IT Services elevated Donald DeMarco to the CEO position, succeeding Michael Hamuka.

DeMarco previously served as chief revenue officer of the Durham, N.C.-based solution provider for about a year, according to his LinkedIn account. He came to WorkSmart after about four years with NexusTek, leaving in 2024 with the title of senior vice president of sales.

His resume includes more than 30 years with IBM, leaving in 2018 as vice president of sales for technology support services North America.

In this role, he “executed a shift and modernization program for this $2.0B+ unit which was declining in revenue” and “led a team of 300+ responsible for sales in the U.S. and Canada,” according to his LinkedIn account.

Kanwar Singh

In April, Wipro brought on Kanwar Singh as president and managing partner of the technology services global business line (GBL), succeeding 30-year Wipro veteran Nagendra Bandaru, who has become CEO of its new AI-native business and platforms unit.

In this role, Singh “oversees Cloud and Infrastructure Services, Cybersecurity and Risk Services, Data, Analytics and AI, Enterprise Applications, Industry Cloud and Digital, and Designit” and “plays a pivotal role in advancing Wipro’s mission to deliver differentiated value for clients and stakeholders worldwide, while strengthening the sales-to-delivery continuum and institutionalizing integrated, service-line-led go-to-market and delivery,” according to Wipro.

Singh joined the Bengaluru, India-based company–No. 17 on CRN’s 2025 Solution Provider 500–after about 19 years with Accenture, according to his LinkedIn account.

He left Accenture with the title of senior managing director and “spearheaded global technology delivery and sales support for the Americas business through the Accenture Advanced Technology Center in India,” according to Wipro.

Alex Trujillo

Alex Trujillo became senior vice president of Intech Systems in April, taking responsibility for North American business operations and sales.

Trujillo joined the New York-based Microsoft solutions provider after about six years with Coforge, according to his LinkedIn account. He left Coforge with the title of SVP of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and AI.

His resume includes founding and leading consulting firms DAX Agency and EIG Advisory until 2019, according to his website.

Jay Lee

Jay Lee became chief marketing and growth officer of Five9 in April.

The new role aims to unite “global marketing with revenue strategy and operations to create a more powerfully aligned go-to-market (GTM) engine for a cohesive, insights-driven, and streamlined experience for customers and partners at every stage of their journey with Five9,” according to a company statement.

Lee joined the San Ramon, Calif.-based customer experience platform provider after about two years as chief marketing officer of Icertis, according to his LinkedIn account. He also worked at Avalara for about four years as CMO, leaving in 2024.

Five9 has about 1,400 partners worldwide, according to CRN’s 2026 Channel Chiefs.

Deborah Julius

Deborah Julius joined SHI in April, taking on the role of vice president of partner and field marketing.

Julius came to the Somerset, N.J.-based company–a member of CRN’s 2026 MSP 500–after about a year as senior vice president of Integris, according to her LinkedIn account. At that solution provider, she oversaw “the full marketing ecosystem including brand positioning and demand generation to content strategy, product marketing, and marketing operations.”

Her resume includes about two years with Amazon Web Services. She left the hyperscaler in 2024 as head of product marketing for AWS Communication Services and Secure Communications.

In that role, she developed “client-centric narratives to deliver a highly differentiated and compelling position to fuel demand generation, account-based marketing (ABM), sales enablement, branding initiatives, and thought leadership,” according to her LinkedIn account.

Carol MacKinlay

In April, Tanium made Carol MacKinlay its chief people officer.

In this role, she “will lead the company's global people strategy and operations, including talent development, retention and team member experience, ensuring Tanium continues to offer career-defining opportunities to team members worldwide,” according to a company statement.

The Kirkland, Wash.-based autonomous IT platform vendor brought on MacKinlay after she worked at Pebl for about two years as chief human resources officer, accordingto her LinkedIn account.

Her resume includes about three years as chief people officer of cryptocurrency exchange Binance.US and about four years as CPO of UserTesting.

Tanium has about 500 partners in North America, according to CRN’s 2026 Partner Program Guide.

Kelsi McDonald Harris

Smartsheet promoted Kelsi McDonald Harris to the role of chief business officer in April.

Harris has been with the Bellevue, Wash.-based work management platform provider since October, previously serving as senior vice president of business operations and chief of staff to the CEO, according to her LinkedIn account.

Her resume includes about eight years with Accolade. She left the company in 2025 as chief people officer, during which time she “partnered with CEO, Board, and executive team to align talent strategy with business priorities during growth and M&A, directly supporting the achievement of $440M in revenue and EBITDA profitability.” Transcarent merged with Accolade last year.

Smartsheet has about 300 North American partners, according to CRN’s 2026 Partner Program Guide.

Armon Dadgar

Armon Dadgar left IBM in April after about a year as chief technology officer of the HashiCorp division.

In a post to LinkedIn about his departure, Dadgar said he is “taking this opportunity to pause and recharge” and has “no immediate plans for what comes next and plan to catch up on some much-needed sleep, do some leisure travel over the summer, and move from Seattle to New York City.”

Dadgar continued on as HashiCorp CTO after Armonk, N.Y.-based tech giant IBM bought the company in 2025. He co-founded HashiCorp–best known for its Terraform infrastructure-as-code platform and Vault secrets management tool–in 2013, according to his LinkedIn account.

His resume includes about two years with ad tech company Kiip as a software engineer, leaving in 2013.

Areas where IBM division Red Hat plans to focus its channel budget this year include deal-level incentives, back-end performance incentives and certification and training, accordingto CRN’s 2026 Partner Program Guide.

Pablo Stern

MongoDB brought on Pablo Stern in April as chief product officer for AI and emerging products, which includes Search, Vector Search, Voyage AI and Application Modernization Platform (AMP).

The New York-based data platform provider hired Stern after he worked at ServiceNow for about nine years, according to his LinkedIn account. He left ServiceNow with the title of executive vice president and general manager for the Technology Workflows product portfolio, which includes Service Management (ITSM), Operations Management (ITOM) and Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM).

His resume includes about two years with Radius, leaving in 2017 as chief technology officer.

MongoDB has about 1,200 partners worldwide, according to CRN’s 2026 Channel Chiefs.

Matt De Vincentis

In April, Zscaler brought on Matt De Vincentis as senior vice president of product marketing.

In this role, he is “focused on strengthening category leadership, sharpening market positioning, and accelerating revenue growth,” according to his LinkedIn account.

De Vincentis came to the San Jose, Calif.-based security vendor after about two years as vice president of product marketing at Atlassian. At Atlassian, he “led end-to-end global marketing and go-to-market strategy and execution for Atlassian’s ~$5B core product portfolio” and “built Atlassian’s first enterprise sales motion, creating $1B+ in annual pipeline within two years.”

His resume includes about five years with Palo Alto Networks, according to his LinkedIn account. He left the security vendor in 2024 as vice president of marketing. He “led global marketing strategy across an eight-category cybersecurity portfolio spanning the SASE and SecOps business units, while establishing the company’s first integrated solution-selling motion to drive enterprise growth.”

Zscaler has about 3,000 partners worldwide, according to CRN’s 2026 Channel Chiefs.

Pete Luongo

Pete Luongo returned to Microsoft in April as general manager and vice president of customer success for the technology giant’s federal business.

Luongo previously worked at the Redmond, Wash.-based company for about 11 years, leaving in 2021 as GM of Microsoft’s federal Azure business. In the role, he led “an organization of sales specialists focused on winning new Azure sales across Data & AI, Cloud Native Applications, and the core platform to all Civilian, Defense and Intel customers,” according to his LinkedIn account.

He left Microsoft to join ServiceNow for about five years, leaving with the title of group vice president of U.S. public sector business.

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

Todd Forgie

Cisco hired a vice president of customer experience in April–Todd Forgie.

Forgie came to the San Jose, Calif.-based networking vendor after about two years with Atlassian, according to his LinkedIn account. He left with the title of VP and head of global incident and escalation management.

His resume includes about four years with Google. He left the company in 2024 as senior director of incident and escalation management.

Cisco has about 15,000 North American partners, according to CRN’s 2026 Partner Program Guide.

Ben Goodger

Ben Goodger returned to Google in April as a vice president.

Goodger previously worked at the Mountain View, Calif.-based AI and cloud products giant for about 20 years, leaving as a vice president, according to his LinkedIn account. He helped create Google’s Chrome browser and ChromeOS during his time with the vendor.

He left Google to work at OpenAI for about two years. He left OpenAI with the title of head of engineering for the AI upstart’s ChatGPT Atlas browser.

His browser credentials include helping to build Netscape Navigator 6, 6.5 and 7 plus Firefox 1.0 in the 2000s, according to his LinkedIn account.

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

Dylan Levy

Dylan Levy joined Windward in April as vice president of sales.

In this role, Levy leads “the full sales function at Windward — go-to-market strategy, revenue growth, and helping organizations understand what's possible when ServiceNow is done right,” according to his LinkedIn account.

The Herndon, Va.-based ServiceNow MSP hired Levy after he worked at Genpact for about two years. He left Genpact as vice president and ServiceNow sales leader. In the role, he “owned the Go-To-Market strategy and revenue target for Genpact’s ServiceNow practice across multiple verticals” and “led complex, multi-million-dollar enterprise sales cycles, bridging the gap between C-suite financial goals and ServiceNow’s digital capabilities.”

His resume includes about five years with Infocenter, which Insight acquired in 2024. He left Infocenter that year as senior vice president of DevShop managed services, according to his LinkedIn account.

Ethan Blodgett

Ethan Blodgett returned to Endeavor Managed Services in April as chief operating officer.

As COO, he leads “the company’s global operations, product strategy, and customer experience functions, with a focus on driving scalable growth, operational excellence, and differentiated service delivery,” according to his LinkedIn account.

The Austin, Texas-based MSP–which has 6,000-plus customers and $200 million in annual technology spend under management–brought on Blodgett after he worked at Lumen Technologies for about a year. He left Lumen with the title of vice president of product management and led a $2 billion-plus portfolio across security, communications and managed services.

Martin Nystrom

Martin Nystrom became cybersecurity chief technology officer of the global cyber practice at World Wide Technology in April.

In this role, he serves as “WWT's senior technical voice on AI and cybersecurity in the field” and helps “CISOs, agency program executives, and partners cut through hype to make decisions about where AI actually advances detection, response, and defense — and where it introduces new risk,” according to his LinkedIn account.

Nystrom joined the Maryland Heights, Mo.-based company–a member of CRN’s 2026 MSP 500–after about four years with Lumen Technologies, according to his LinkedIn account.

He left the company with the title of vice president of the Black Lotus Security Group, “an 85-person organization of threat researchers, security engineers, data scientists, and advisors focused on commercializing Lumen's backbone-level network visibility and AI/ML-driven threat intelligence into revenue-producing products and services.”

In this role, he “grew attributed revenue to $62M (+13% YoY), with threat intelligence revenue up 22% and advisory services up 27%” and “launched Lumen Defender suite, an AI-powered threat defense platform analyzing 200B+ NetFlow sessions daily, blocking 300K+ malicious sessions per day.”

Rob Scott

Ahead brought on Rob Scott as senior vice president of managed services in April.

In this role, he “delivers outcome-based, technology-agnostic managed services founded on AI—engineered to drive the highest levels of performance, availability, flexibility, and security across our customers' environments,” according to his LinkedIn account.

Scott came to the Chicago-based company–a member of CRN’s 2026 MSP 500––after more than 27 years with Dell Technologies and predecessor companies. He left Dell with the title of vice president of cloud operations.

In that role, he was “responsible for all aspects of service delivery for Dell's multi-tenant cloud for mission-critical applications,” according to his LinkedIn account.

Gary Richards

Trace3 hired a new senior vice president and head of revenue operations in April–Gary Richards.

Richards joined the Irvine, Calif.-based company––a member of CRN’s 2026 MSP 500––after about five years with Insight as SVP of client experience and operations, according to his LinkedIn account.

His resume includes about nine years with Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He left HPE in 2020 as vice president of global sales operations for worldwide configure, price and quote. In that role, he “led all aspects in the operation and transformation of CPQ tools, process, culture and purchase experience across HPE globally.”

Nicholas Holian

In April, Nicholas Holian returned to DXC Technology to take on the role of chief technology officer.

Holian previously left the Ashburn, Va.-based company–No. 14 on CRN’s 2025 Solution Provider 500–in 2021 with the title of chief technology officer for the Americas, according to his LinkedIn account. He also worked at DXC predecessor organizations including Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s enterprise services division and Hewlett-Packard. Hewlett-Packard split into HP and HPE in 2015. HPE’s enterprise services business merged with Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) to form DXC in 2017.

At DXC, some of his successes include growing the product lifecycle management (PLM) practice and increasing revenue by $700 million, according to his LinkedIn account. He also won a $100 million renewal contract and won a $1.5 billion contract in aerospace and defense against four competitors.

After leaving DXC, he worked at Wipro for about three years, leaving in 2024 as global CTO, general manager of FullStride Cloud and distinguished member of technical staff (DMTS) council member. He also worked at Nutanix for about a year, leaving as worldwide field CTO.

Will Ellse

Will Ellse joined HCL Tech’s HCLSoftware business in April as chief revenue officer of its IntelliOps portfolio.

In this role, he leads “a 300-person global GTM organisation across sales, SDR, customer success, and marketing, with full accountability for customer acquisition and revenue growth across a 2,600+ customer base” for a portfolio “spanning ITOps, Cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and BizOps, all powered by pragmatic Agentic AI,” according to his LinkedIn account.

Ellse came to the Noida, India-based company–No. 16 on CRN’s 2025 Solution Provider 500–after about three years with Snowflake. He left the data platform vendor with the title of vice president of enterprise and global accounts for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

His resume includes about six years with Pure Storage, now known as Everpure. He left the vendor in 2023 as vice president of worldwide sales for global accounts. In this role, he “grew the business from by $0 in FY18, to $250m in FY23” and led “a team of 8 Regional Sales Leaders, and 60 Individual Contributors across Sales and Pre-sales,” according to his LinkedIn account.

Kevin Regimbal

New Dominion Networks brought on a new chief revenue officer last month–Kevin Regimbal.

Regimbal joined the Glen Allen, Va.-based solution provider after about eight years with Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., according to his LinkedIn account. He left Konica Minolta with the title of area vice president.

His resume includes about a year with ADP, leaving in 2018 as an analyst for its disaster recovery (DR) team.

David Weber

In April, David Weber joined Leidos, taking on the role of vice president of growth.

In this role, he leads “strategic growth initiatives across key markets” including “shaping and executing growth strategy, building and managing a high-quality pipeline, and leading capture efforts for large, complex opportunities,” according to his LinkedIn account.

He came to the Reston, Va.-based company––No. 10 on CRN’s 2025 Solution Provider 500–after about six years with CACI International, according to his LinkedIn account. He left CACI with the title of VP of business development, a role in which he led “growth across DoD, Intelligence Community, and Federal Civilian markets.”

His resume includes about four years with Northrop Grumman, leaving in 2020 as an account manager. He also spent about four years with the U.S. Air Force as a cathodic and electrical engineer.