On the move

Bina Chaurasia TANIUM

The Emeryville provider of endpoint security and systems management appointed Bina Chaurasia chief people officer. She is former senior vice president and chief human resource officer at Ericsson.

John Curnutte PLIANT THERAPEUTICS

The Redwood City provider of treatments for fibrotic diseases appointed John Curnutte to its board of directors. Currently, he serves as executive vice president of research and development at Portola Pharmaceuticals.

Jason Holloway FRAME

The San Mateo cloud workspace platform named Jason Holloway head of public sector. He is former chief technology officer of cloud services for the U.S. intelligence community.

Katerina Leftheris PLIANT THERAPEUTICS

The Redwood City provider of treatments for fibrotic diseases appointed Katerina Leftheris vice president of chemistry. Previously, she served at Celgene.

Dragan Milanovich TASCENT

The Los Gatos provider of biometric security screening devices and software named Dragan Milanovich vice president of engineering. He is former vice president of engineering and technical operations at OneLogin.

Joey Pritikin TASCENT

The Los Gatos provider of biometric security screening devices and software appointed Joey Pritikin co-chief executive officer. He has 15 years of biometrics product development and marketing experience.

Alastair Partington TASCENT

The Los Gatos provider of biometric security screening devices and software appointed Alastair Partington co-chief executive officer. Previously, he held positions at Accenture.

Ruben Spruijt FRAME

The San Mateo cloud workspace platform named Ruben Spruijt chief technology officer. Previously, he served at Atlantis Computing.

Aaron Williams MAPD

The San Francisco provider of graphics processing unit analytics and visualization for large databases named Aaron Williams vice president of global community for the open-sourced platform. Previously, he served at Sun Microsystems.

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