30 Notable IT Executive Moves: April 2023

May 12, 2023, 03:00 PM EDT

Liongard, Cybereason, Zadara, Zone & Co., IBM, Barracuda Networks and Optimizely were among the tech companies to make executive hires during April 2023.

Liongard, Cybereason, Zadara and Zone & Co. all hired new CEOs during April 2023.

Michelle Accardi, formerly of Logically; Eric Gan formerly of eAccess; Yoram Novick, formerly of Maxta; and Thomas Kim, formerly of Enfusion, are just some of the executives hired last month.

April 2023 Executive Hires

IBM, Barracuda Networks and Optimizely were among the other tech giants to make executive hires during the month as companies invest in resources for sales, technology and partners.

Those executives were:

*Jonah Smith, formerly of The Kraft Heinz Co.

*Maria Martinez, formerly of Logitech

*Rupali Jain, formerly of WorkBoard

All the hiring comes despite multiple tech giants cutting their employee rosters amid growing inflation, the possibility of a recession in the near future and a tightening of IT budgets after high demand for technology during the height of the pandemic.

CDW, F5, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Red Hat, Lenovo, Deloitte and Dropbox are among the tech businesses to announce or conduct layoffs in recent days.

Read on for more of the 30 notable IT executive moves from April 2023.

Wade Tyler Millward

Wade Tyler Millward is an associate editor covering cloud computing and the channel partner programs of Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, Oracle, Salesforce, Citrix and other cloud vendors. He can be reached at wmillward@thechannelcompany.com.