Tech Giants Announce Major Executive Hires: Cato Networks, Sapiens, ARIS, Azul, and More

Cato Networks Appoints Chad Gardner as Chief Revenue Officer

Cato Networks has named Chad Gardner as chief revenue officer, tasked with leading its global revenue organisation and scaling the company’s go-to-market execution as enterprises modernise and converge their networking and security infrastructure.

Gardner joins Cato from Blackfoot Communications, where he served as chief revenue officer, overseeing the company’s wholesale, premier, and enterprise business units. He brings extensive experience building and leading high-performing sales organisations across enterprise infrastructure and cybersecurity.

Previously, Gardner was vice president of sales for North America at SambaNova Systems, and held several leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks, including vice president of global SASE sales and vice president of sales for West Majors. His experience also includes VP leadership positions at Netskope, as well as executive sales roles at Denali Advanced Integration, NetApp, and Cisco Systems.

BP3 Global Names Richard Neish as CEO

BP3 Global, an intelligent process automation player, has appointed Richard Neish as chief executive officer, with a remit to drive growth and scale its agentic orchestration proposition.

Neish will head up a global executive team focused on driving growth in North America and Europe through agentic orchestration leadership in regulated enterprise organisations.

Neish brings more than 20 years’ experience in enterprise technology consulting and large-scale data and AI transformation. Most recently, he was CEO of technology and data consultancy Crosstide. This followed senior leadership roles at Kin + Carta, where he led the firm's strategic planning and execution as global chief strategy officer. In this capacity he headed the evolution of its custom software and data transformation proposition, and spearheaded its enterprise growth in Europe and the Americas.

Sapiens Hires Maroun S. Mourad as CEO, North America

Sapiens has hired Maroun S. Mourad as chief executive officer, North America. Mourad brings more than 27 years of global leadership across property and casualty (P&C), life and annuities, reinsurance, data analytics and technology.

Mourad joins Sapiens from Clarivate, where he was president of its intellectual property division. Before that, he spent a decade at Verisk as president of global claims, global underwriting, life and international, and served on the company’s senior operating committee.

ARIS Makes Three Senior Appointments

ARIS, the process context for enterprise AI firm, has made three new senior appointments, as it builds momentum toward 2027 and accelerates its strategy to help organisations put AI to work at scale.

Maxime Hambersin joins as chief product officer, Benjamin Krusche as global head of strategy and transformation, and Mark Jacobs as president and go-to-market lead, Americas.

The moves come as ARIS advances its positioning around process context - giving AI agents the business understanding they need to operate effectively - while accelerating a product roadmap designed to help enterprises identify, deploy and scale AI against measurable business outcomes.

Azul Appoints Matt Camassa as Chief Revenue Officer

Azul has appointed Matt Camassa as chief revenue officer. He brings more than 20 years of experience and will lead Azul’s worldwide revenue organisation, including sales, solution engineering, partners, customer success and operations.

Prior to joining Azul, he held a number of senior sales executive roles, including CRO at TeleSign, where he helped scale the business through a period of rapid growth, culminating in its acquisition by BICS in 2017. And at Sift, a fraud-prevention company, Camassa led worldwide sales through a multi-year period of growth with strong net revenue retention.

Most recently, Camassa served as an operating partner at Diversis Capital and, before that, an executive in residence at K1 Investment Management. In those roles he led go-to-market strategy, was a board member and advisor, and held multiple interim CRO roles at portfolio companies.

EveryData Group Names Damion Franklin as CEO

EveryData Group has named Damion Franklin as its new CEO. He was previously executive vice president at EveryData Group.

Franklin assumes the role from Kristinn Angarsson, who had led EveryData Group for the last six years.

NetDocuments Brings in Cody Crnkovich as SVP of Partnerships and Alliances

NetDocuments, the intelligent document management system for legal professionals, has brought in Cody Crnkovich as senior vice president of partnerships and alliances, “reinforcing the company’s investment in the relationships and integrations driving the next generation of legal AI”, said the firm.

In this newly established role, Crnkovich will lead NetDocuments’ global partner strategy, bringing together channel partners, independent software vendors, and strategic alliances under a unified approach. As law firms, corporate legal teams, and public sector organisations increasingly adopt AI-powered workflows, NetDocuments says it is continuing to expand its network of partners and integrations that can help customers securely connect content, knowledge, and work across their legal technology environment.

Crnkovich brings more than 15 years of experience building and scaling global partner organisations across enterprise software and cloud technology companies. Most recently, he served as vice president of channel sales at Instructure, and previously held partnership leadership roles at Conga, Udemy, Adobe, and GoodData.

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