Hello, hello, Silverliners. We’re gearing up for an exciting weekend. The NFL Draft is in full force and the rumors are true… us “tech nerds” may on occasion partake in sports! Well, some of us anyway.
While we aren’t in Kansas City for the draft itself, we’ve selected our most eligible picks in the cloud industry for this week’s NFL Draft edition of Cloud Career Moves. We’re rooting for each one of these techies as they transition to a new team, position and… hopefully a pay raise?
Trenton Truitt, President, Kubecost
Kubecost, a cloud cost visibility and insights company, named Trenton Truitt as president. Previous to Kubecost, Trenton held executive roles at several fast-growing cloud-based companies, including PagerDuty and Apollo GraphQl. Trenton can be found scoping out the autograph booths for NFL legends… selfie, anyone?
Paula Morton, VP, Sales Engineering, LiveVox
Paula Morton has been named VP of sales engineering at LiveVox, a cloud contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) platform. Paula will lead LiveVox’s sales engineering teams and partner pre-sales enablement. Paula is recognized in the arena for being the reigning champ at the draft’s Field Goal Challenge. Score!
Rafael Olivares, Head of Sales & Partnerships, Americas, UBiqube
UBiqubeCloud, a cloud management solutions company, appointed Rafael Olivares as head of sales and partnerships for the Americas. He will lead UBiqube’s outreach in the Americas with a focus on solving hybrid cloud migration challenges. Rafael spent the first round draft setting up a front row seat for the Fall Out Boy concert, because, what’s really important here?
Matt Gyde, CEO, vArmour
Matt Gyde will serve as CEO at vArmour, a move that follows Night Dragon’s recent acquisition of the cloud security company. In this role, Matt will help vArmour accelerate its go-to-market efforts and continue to capitalize on significant market opportunities. Matt is ready to gear up and go — he even tried on every team’s uniform at the draft. Just for fun.
Kevin Rhodes, EVP and CFO, Extreme Networks
Cloud networking company Extreme Networks has named Kevin Rhodes as executive vice president and CFO. Kevin will help drive the company’s strategic direction, financial planning and reporting. When not practicing his “Hail Marys”, Kevin is busy judging the Kansas City BBQ competition outside the arena.
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