New President & CMO at Rackspace

Rackspace Hosting, a cloud computing and hosting provider, has promoted Lew Moorman, 41, to President. Most recently, he served as Chief Strategy Officer and President of the Cloud business. Prior to joining Rackspace in 2000, Moorman held several positions at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He serves as a Commissioner on Tech America's Cloud2 Commission and as a Board Member of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute.

Cisco Promotes Longtime Employee to Regional GM

Cisco Systems announced that Christian Martin has been appointed as the GM of Switzerland. Martin has been with Cisco since 1998 and has served the company in a variety of roles, including Manager of the Datacenter Virtualization team and Regional Sales Manager for the Enterprise Business in Switzerland. He replaces Eric Waltert, who is now the EMEA Leader of Collaboration for the Cisco Enterprise Business Group.