Alex Thurber, Virtana, featured in CRN’s 30 Notable IT Executive Moves: March 2021

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Alex Thurber

Virtana, a provider of observability platform for cloud workloads, made two appointments: Alex Thurber as senior vice president of customer success and channel strategy, and Jonathan Cyr as vice president of product management.

Thurber was most recently chief revenue officer at secure access software provider Pulse Secure. Before that, he was senior vice president and general manager of the Mobility Solutions business unit at BlackBerry. In addition to channel strategy and field operations roles at Watchguard, Tripwire and McAfee, Thurber spent 10 years leading channel strategy at Cisco for several advanced technologies.

Cyr was most recently vice president of strategy for enterprise technology services at multinational insurance company Manulife. Prior to that he was head of products at John Hancock. He also served as director of hybrid cloud product management at Dell EMC, where he worked for more than three years. He previously worked at Hewlett-Packard for 14 years.