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Sift appoints Kris Nagel

Sift, a provider of digital trust and safety, hired Kris
Nagel as CEO. Nagel brings more than 30 years of
experience in senior leadership positions at venture-
backed and public SaaS companies from pre-revenue
to $4.5 billion in annual sales, and from early funding
to in excess of $10 billion in market capitalization, Sift
noted.
He most recently served as the chief operating officer
at identity security platform Ping Identity, where he
played a critical role in taking the company public
in 2019. Prior to Ping Identity, Nagel was CEO of
Vindicia, an Amdocs Ltd. company.

Fabio Scopeta joins EBANX
EBANX, a payments fintech, appointed Fabio Scopeta
as its new chief product & technology officer to lead
the company's product and technology divisions glob-
ally. With more than 25 years of experience, Scopeta
will focus on leveraging EBANX's products and pay-
ments platform, and will be based out of Miami, Fla.

Prior to EBANX, Scopeta served in multiple product
engineering and commercial roles at Microsoft, more
recently as general manager for digital and app inno-
vation solutions. Before joining Microsoft, he was
head of IBM Watson Health for Latin America, follow-
ing his role as head of IBM Watson for Brazil, in addi-
tion to serving as the company's director of software
engineering and product management.
Utimaco promotes Hacan Tiwemark

Utimaco, a global provider of IT security solutions,
appointed Hacan Tiwemark, a long-serving solutions
and services professional who previously served
as Utimaco’s vice president of professional service
and solutions, as its new chief operating officer.
Tiwemark has held various management positions
at Siemens Nixdorf, Siemens Business Services and
Wincor Nixdorf.

Before joining Utimaco, he was group vice presi-
dent, global head of service delivery & operations at
Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security. Combined, he
has more than 25 years of experience in solutions and
services—from solution design, solution sales, system
integration, managed services and operation of criti-
cal cloud/DC operations.

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