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Leadership Transition Timeline
Timeline of the transition from Founder CEO to Acting CEO.
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WSO2 Founder and CEO Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana to step down as CEO
WSO2 has announced that its Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, will step down from his role as CEO with effect from June, 2026. The Board of Directors has initiated a search for a permanent CEO and has appointed WSO2’s Chief Revenue Officer, Devaka Randeniya, as Acting Chief Executive Officer to lead the company during the transition period. “We are grateful to Sanjiva for his vision and leadership in building WSO2 into a globally recognized technology company,” said Jonas Persson, Chairman of the Board. “With a strong leadership team, a clear strategy, and growing demand for our platform, WSO2 is well-positioned to continue its momentum. The Board is focused on ensuring a smooth transition and identifying the right leader for the company’s next phase.” “It has been an incredible journey building WSO2 over the past two decades,” said Weerawarana. “I am proud of what we’ve accomplished and confident in the team and strategy driving the company forward. WSO2’s role in enabling the next generation of AI-driven, agent-based digital experiences is only just beginning.” WSO2 continues to see strong demand for its platform as enterprises seek to securely integrate, manage, and govern increasingly complex digital interactions, including emerging AI agents. The company remains focused on advancing its strategy to serve as the control plane for these interactions, helping organizations move faster while maintaining visibility, control, and sovereignty in how data, identities, and AI-driven processes are managed across environments. Weerawarana will join WSO2 executives at WSO2Con North America 2026, its upcoming user conference in Austin, Texas next week, where the leadership team will present the company’s latest innovations and future direction. (Newswire) 2026-05-14
Signal CEO resigns, WhatsApp co-founder to take over - London Daily
CEO of encrypted messenger app with US government links says he feels ‘comfortable replacing himself’Co-founder of Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp Brian Acton has been tapped to take over from Moxie Marlinspike as CEO of Signal, a popular encrypted messaging app with funding ties to the US State Department. Acton, previously executive chairman of Signal, is only taking over on an interim basis, according to Marlinspike (real name Matthew Rosenfeld), who founded the app in 2013. While the founder claims he now feels “very comfortable” replacing himself as CEO based on the team they have and has met with multiple CEO candidates in the past few months, no favorite has yet emerged to succeed him. Signal’s resources grew considerably in 2018, when Acton arrived fresh from Facebook with $50 million in startup capital four years after the social media giant acquired WhatsApp. While Marlinspike has insisted that Signal “never [took] VC funding or sought investment,” the app was admittedly developed with millions of dollars in funding from the Open Technology Fund, itself a spinoff of Radio Free Asia, one of several US state propaganda channels operating under the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) umbrella and aimed at promoting Washington’s interests abroad. The OTF (and by extension Signal) was reportedly unleashed as part of an initiative by the Obama-era State Department to “deploy ‘shadow’ internet and mobile phone systems dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments.” Accordingly, Signal has become enormously popular with regime-change movements abroad, perhaps most notably in Hong Kong. Headquartered in San Francisco, the encrypted messaging platform has “millions” of users, according to Marlinspike.
Pool Corp. Names Former Motion Exec as CEO as Arvan Steps Down
Pool Corp. has appointed John Watwood as President and CEO, effective May 4, as Peter Arvan steps down from the roles and from the company's board, the distributor announced. The Covington, LA-based company — the world's largest wholesale distributor of swimming pool supplies and related ...
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