Summer is fading away, and the D.C. tech community is restocking desks and shuffling c-suites following September vacations and departing interns. We rounded up some of the biggest names that switched companies, stepped down or got promoted and ordered new business cards last month.
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Arlington tech startup Amify, which helps brands sell on Amazon, announced two additions to its executive leadership team. Anthony Hoang will join as CTO and Samantha Byrd is coming on as chief people officer. Both will work out of Amify’s new office, blocks away from Amazon’s HQ2 site. Hoang has worked with brands including Target and Evereve, and most recently was CIO of retailer CliqStudios. Byrd previously led HR strategies at MasterCard subsidiary Applied Predictive Technologies, and most recently served as VP of human resources for Envision.
Selina McPherson, former VP of marketing at Hatch Apps, has joined The Brand Guild as a marketing director. McPherson worked for more than two years at Hatch Apps, leading it through a rebrand last October. She will be working with the marketing and PR agency on digital marketing, brand partnerships, thought leadership and influencer marketing.
College Park, Md.-based anti-phishing startup Inky Technology announced that John Lyons joined the company as chief revenue officer to handle the money during its growth in the cybersecurity arena. Previously, Lyons ran worldwide sales for Arlington-based ThreatConnect, was president of ThreatTrack Security and served as VP of sales for North and South America at Maryland's Tenable.
Former Pentagon cyber official Chris Lynch, along with two-cofounders, launched D.C.-based startup Rebellion Defense, which sells software for defense and national security applications. It's backed by major tech names including former Google chairman Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.
Vienna-based Criterion Systems brought on IT services veteran Rodger Jones as its chief technology officer. Prior to joining, Jones was CTO at healthcare IT firm UnityBPO and the Kemtah Group. He also held previous tech leadership roles at IBM, Anthem and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Publicly traded DXC Technology has a new CEO and president. Mike Salvino, most recently managing director at private equity firm Carrick Capital Partners, is replacing soon-to-be retiree Mike Lawrie. Lawrie has led the Tysons-based IT services firm since its inception in April 2017, when Hewlett-Packard’s enterprise services business merged with Computer Sciences Corp.
Data software firm Stardog is back to the old boss as CEO Michael Sachse steps down from that role after just over a year. According to the firm's website and LinkedIn pages, co-founder Kendall Clark, who served as CEO for a decade until Sachse's appointment, took back the helm. Stardog, which helps companies unify their data, has raised more than $11 million in funding and has 50-plus employees.
McClean-based tech firm Dovel Technologies named Rod Fontecilla as its new chief innovation officer and chief data scientist. Fontecilla currently serves as an adjunct professor at Arizona University’s Kogod School and has previously worked in several technical leadership roles.
