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Sonatype names three industry veterans to executive team to lead the next chapter of agentic development. New leaders bring deep expertise in scaling organizations and strengthening market leadership growth amid accelerating demand for secure, AI-driven software development. Fulton, Md., June 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Sonatype(R), the company that accelerates agentic software development with confidence, today announced the appointments of Casey Watson as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), Jason McClelland as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), and Sherri Manning as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). These appointments come at a pivotal moment for Sonatype as the company scales its go-to-market, revenue, and people strategies to meet growing enterprise demand for secure, AI-driven software development. "Sonatype is operating at the intersection of three of the most important forces in technology today: AI, open source, and cybersecurity," said Bhagwat Swaroop, CEO of Sonatype. "Casey, Jason, and Sherri bring the experience and leadership we need to scale growth, lead our marketing initiatives, and continue building a high-performance culture that matches the pace of AI." Watson brings more than three decades of IT experience across software engineering and senior sales leadership, with a track record of building high-performing teams in complex, high-growth technology organizations. Most recently SVP of Sales for North America at OneTrust, he previously held leadership roles at VMware Tanzu, R3, Siemplify, and Docker. As CRO, Watson will lead Sonatype's global revenue strategy and go-to-market execution, aligning pre- and post-sales efforts to create a more cohesive customer journey. "Organizations today are under increasing pressure to innovate faster while maintaining trust and security across the software supply chain," said Casey Watson, CRO at Sonatype. "Sonatype is uniquely positioned to help customers meet that challenge, and I'm energized by the opportunity to work alongside this talented team to strengthen our customer partnerships, align our go-to-market efforts, and help organizations innovate securely at scale." McClelland joins Sonatype with a track record of creating new categories and leading growth at global enterprise companies, including Salesforce, Adobe, Heroku, and DataStax, with extensive experience in scaling both emerging and legacy technologies to achieve strategic goals. As CMO, he will focus on advancing Sonatype's AI and agentic initiatives to meet evolving customer needs in a dynamic landscape. "I came to Sonatype because I believe this organization holds the critical intelligence required for developers to code quickly and safely with AI," said Jason McClelland, CMO at Sonatype. "Software developers are at the forefront of a dynamic, progressively opaque development ecosystem that is in the midst of upheaval. I'm excited to help build on the legacy of Nexus Repository and Maven Central and support Sonatype by ushering in a new era of developer enablement that starts with foundational control." Manning brings nearly three decades of experience building strong, trusting, and empathetic cultures while scaling global teams at high-growth organizations. Manning comes to Sonatype from Olo, where she was the Chief People Officer, leading HR strategy, focused on employee growth and engagement, after roles at BigCommerce, Q2ebanking. At Sonatype, Manning seeks to deepen the organization's culture to ensure employees are supported and rewarded, enabling them to see the direct impact of their efforts. "I'm excited to be part of a company that puts its people and culture first, creating an environment where employees can thrive and innovate to help keep the world's software safe," said Sherri Manning, CHRO at Sonatype. "Sonatype already has great people doing important work. My mission is to ensure that employees can see the impact they are making in their day-to-day work." The need for secure AI development has never been clearer. With McClelland, Watson and Manning, Sonatype is strengthening its leadership to accelerate strategic growth, drive market leadership, and ensure the company remains the trusted authority in AI-driven DevSecOps, building on the critical foundation of Nexus Repository. To learn more about how Sonatype is advancing safe, compliant AI development with the Nexus One Platform, visit https://www.sonatype.com/products/nexus-one-platform. About Sonatype Sonatype is the company that accelerates agentic software development with confidence. Trusted by thousands of enterprises and millions of developers, Sonatype helps organizations build with confidence by governing the open source, AI-generated, and third-party components that power modern software. As the steward of Maven Central and the company behind Nexus Repository, Sonatype provides unmatched visibility into how software is built, consumed, and secured - helping teams move faster, reduce risk, and ship software with confidence at AI scale. To learn more about Sonatype, please visit www.sonatype.com. Megan Schmidt Sonatype [email protected] Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content "as is" without warranty of any kind. Alabama Business Reporter do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.

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Sonatype debuts guide to secure AI-assisted software development. Software supply chain management firm Sonatype Inc. today announced the launch of Sonatype Guide, a new developer tool that makes artificial intelligence-assisted software development faster, safer and more efficient. The service is designed to serve as an intelligent backbone that steers AI coding assistants toward secure, high-quality open-source components and autonomously maintains dependencies over time. The problem that Sonatype Guide is seeking to assist with is that AI models are trained on public data that may be months or years out of date. So AI coding assistants, intended to help developers move faster, frequently recommend vulnerable, low-quality or even imagined packages. According to a forthcoming study from Sonatype, leading generative AI large language models that power coding assistants hallucinate packages up to 27% of the time, meaning they attempt to update or develop modern software with nonexistent or malicious open-source components. That creates rework for development teams, slows delivery, burns LLM tokens and introduces unnecessary security risk. In pre-launch testing, enterprises using Sonatype Guide achieved more than a 300% improvement in security outcomes while reducing total security remediation. The service also improved dependency-upgrade costs by more than five compared to the leading competitive strategy, measured in both direct spend and developer hours. "Every organization wants to harness the productivity of AI, but they can't afford to compromise security or long-term maintainability," said Chief Executive Bhagwat Swaroop. "Guide brings discipline and intelligence to AI-assisted development. It empowers teams to move faster and safer by steering AI toward secure, reliable components and automating the tedious dependency work that slows teams down. This is a significant step forward for the industry and for our customers." Sonatype Guide works with popular AI coding assistants, including GitHub Copilot, Google Antigravity, Claude Code, Windsurf, IntelliJ with Junie, Kiro from Amazon Web Services Inc. and Cursor, to allow organizations to keep their existing workflows while upgrading the quality and security of the dependencies pulled in. Core features of Sonatype Guide include a Model Context Protocol Server for AI coding assistants, which intercepts package recommendations in real time to instantly guide developers to secure, reliable versions before code reaches the repo. The MCP server is complemented with enhanced open-source software search for instant decisions. It also has an enterprise-grade application programming interface that delivers complete, unrestricted and backward-compatible access to reliable data. Guide is built on Sonatype Intelligence, a source of real-time data on open-source quality, security and project health that can identify vulnerabilities, deprecations and malicious packages long before they spread. By embedding this intelligence directly into AI workflows, the company says, Guide ensures developers make safe, informed decisions from the start. Image: siliconangle/ideogram. A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE: Support its mission to keep content open and free by engaging with theCUBE community. Join theCUBE's Alumni Trust Network, where technology leaders connect, share intelligence and create opportunities. * 15M+ viewers of theCUBE videos, powering conversations across AI, cloud, cybersecurity and more * 11.4k+ theCUBE alumni - Connect with more than 11,400 tech and business leaders shaping the future through a unique trusted-based network. SiliconANGLE Media is a recognized leader in digital media innovation, uniting breakthrough technology, strategic insights and real-time audience engagement. As the parent company of SiliconANGLE, theCUBE Network, theCUBE Research, CUBE365, theCUBE AI and theCUBE SuperStudios - with flagship locations in Silicon Valley and the New York Stock Exchange - SiliconANGLE Media operates at the intersection of media, technology and AI. Founded by tech visionaries John Furrier and Dave Vellante, SiliconANGLE Media has built a dynamic ecosystem of industry-leading digital media brands that reach 15+ million elite tech professionals. Its new proprietary theCUBE AI Video Cloud is breaking ground in audience interaction, leveraging theCUBEai.com neural network to help technology companies make data-driven decisions and stay at the forefront of industry conversations.