Daversa Partners is pleased to announce Lance Walter as the new Chief Marketing Officer at Host Analytics, the leader in cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM). Lance joins Host Analytics from ExecCatalytst. Lance’s successful high-tech career has been marked by continuous advancement in management of both front and back office business functions. After graduating from U.C. Berkeley with a B.S. in Engineering and Computer Science, Lance was recruited into Oracle Technical Services and was quickly promoted into management. Looking to take on new challenges, he landed his first Product Marketing role at Arbor Software and rapidly advanced to Director. Lance took on greater marketing responsibilities at OnLink, which was acquired by Siebel Systems, and subsequently ran marketing and product management for Siebel's largest product line. Lance's most recent executive roles include VP of Product Marketing at Business Objects as well as VP and SVP of Marketing roles at successful, disruptive startups in open source as well as cloud computing at Pentaho and Aria Systems.
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Ashley Johnson has assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer of ServiceSource. Ashley was previously ServiceSource’s SVP Finance and Corporate Development and prior to that held senior roles at GreenAtom LLC., Continuum Capital and General Atlantic. ServiceSource is the global leader in recurring revenue management. The world's most successful companies rely on us to maximize subscription, maintenance and support revenue, improve customer retention and increase business predictability and insight. ServiceSource delivers results with Renew OnDemand, the world's only cloud application built specifically to manage and grow recurring revenue, which can be combined with our industry-leading services and unique pay-for-performance model. With over a decade of experience focused exclusively in growing recurring revenue, our services and applications are based on proven best practices and global benchmarks. The Company is headquartered in San Francisco, and has over $7B under management for customers in more than 150 countries and 40 languages.
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Pete Hirsch joins Ariba as its SVP, Chief Architect. Prior to joining Ariba, Pete was with IBM where he was the Chief Architect of the S&T Applications SaaS business unit, where he led end-to-end responsibility for enterprise-scale products in the collaborative program management market and for overall P&L business performance. Pete came to IBM through the acquisition of Valchemy, a venture-backed, software-as-a-service startup for managing mergers and acquisitions. Pete has been a part of many successful outcomes including Alphablox, Informix, and 3D Visions Corporation, where he led all technology and product strategy. Pete holds his BSEE and MSEE from USC.
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Raul Corella joins Leap Motion as VP of Operations. Raul Corella oversees global demand planning, strategic procurement, manufacturing operations, quality assurance, logistics, transportation and distribution, by leveraging his 20+ years of continuous improvement in global supply chain and operations. Prior to joining Leap Motion, Mr. Corella was Vice President Supply Chain at Jawbone, and Vice President of Global Supply Chain Operations for Monster Cable Products. He also managed supply chain operations for the Home Entertainment division of BOSE Corporation’s southwest region. Leap Motion is a motion-control software and hardware company developing the world's most powerful and sensitive 3-D motion-control and motion-sensing technology. Leap Motion's first product, the Leap Motion controller, will be available in early 2013. Leap Motion is 200 times more sensitive than existing motion-control technology, making it the first product to let users navigate and interact with computer applications using natural hand and finger movements. Leap Motion was founded in 2010 by Michael Buckwald and David Holz.
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Ted Theocheung joins Leap Motion as Vice President and General Manager and is responsible for all OEM and licensing opportunities for LEAP technologies into all vertical markets from PC and mobile devices to automotive, medical, aerospace, big data visualization and general Consumer Electronics. Leap Motion is a motion-control software and hardware company developing the world's most powerful and sensitive 3-D motion-control and motion-sensing technology. Leap Motion's first product, the Leap Motion controller, will be available in early 2013. Leap Motion is 200 times more sensitive than existing motion-control technology, making it the first product to let users navigate and interact with computer applications using natural hand and finger movements. Leap Motion was founded in 2010 by Michael Buckwald and David Holz.
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Rich Taylor joins Xamarin as its Director of Marketing. Rich came from Datameer where he was the Director of Marketing. Xamarin’s mission is to produce the best software development tools in the world, and to make it fast, easy and fun to build great mobile apps.
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James Arra joins LiveRamp as the VP Sales. James came from TRUSTe where he served as the VP Sales. LiveRamp is how offline gets online. Data onboarding with LiveRamp enables companies to use their offline customer data in online advertising. LiveRamp helps bring the rich and valuable assets of offline databases online creating greater precision and performance in online marketing and advertising. LiveRamp is focused solely on data onboarding (including purchase history, direct mail, email campaigns, loyalty, and CRM) and works seamlessly with all the leading online ad networks and platforms. LiveRamp does not buy media or sell data. Offline data companies partner with LiveRamp to bring their data sets into anonymous cookies for more accurate online targeting and web personalization for their clients. Publishers partner with LiveRamp to monetize their web traffic without selling their audience data to 3rd parties and to build a more robust digital ad product to offer their clients.
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Reply.com, the leading marketplace for local advertisers, today announced that Chris Mancini has joined the company as its chief marketing officer. Reply.com also announced that it has reached 1 million auctions per day and 26 million local consumer visits per month across all of its properties. These increases point to the success of Reply.com\'s marketplace for local advertisers, which is recognized as the most effective way for local advertisers to reach their target consumers. Mancini brings over 12 years\' experience in performance-based online marketing operations and management. Prior to joining Reply.com, Mancini spent two years as EVP and General Manager at QualityHealth, where he was responsible for consumer experience, client marketing, operations, media, client services and analytics. Before that, Mancini spent more than 10 years at QuinStreet, where he was instrumental in helping the company grow to over $300M in revenue and complete an IPO. As SVP and GM at QuinStreet, Mancini launched the company into new verticals and spearheaded efforts to form partnerships with Fortune 1000 companies and leading industry partners. \"We\'re thrilled to have Chris join the Reply.com team. We have seen significant increase in budgets from advertisers using our marketplace, and we anticipate this trend to continue in 2013 and beyond. Reaching 1 million auctions per day is just another proof point that local advertising offered in proper format is essential in bringing local advertisers to the internet in a meaningful way,\" said Payam Zamani, founder and CEO of Reply.com. \"I am confident that Chris\' expertise in online advertising and strategic partnerships will be instrumental as we accelerate the growth of our traffic and meet the needs of our advertisers.\" Reply.com also announced today that it is now supporting more than 1 million advertising auctions per day in the company\'s real-time auction marketplace and hosts 26 million local consumer visits per month across all of its properties including MerchantCircle.com, Contractors.com, iMotors.com among others. An auction represents the process through which a consumer is matched with a local service provider for their given inquiry. For example, when a request to be matched with a roofing contractor in a specific zip code on Contractors.com is made, the consumer\'s request on a realtime basis is auctioned to determine its value if distributed as a \"lead\" or an Enhanced Click™ (a consumer generated click including consumers service need and zip code where service needs to be rendered). This is a format that is supported by the Reply.com marketplace and is necessary for local advertisers. Within milliseconds the marketplace matches the consumer with their requested service provider and the auction is completed. \"Reply.com is at a very exciting and interesting point in time, especially as the market is shifting dollars to local online advertising as a more cost-effective way to reach the right audiences,\" said Mancini. \"Advertisers and publishers in the Reply.com marketplace are realizing profits and reaching audiences in ways only dreamed of 10 years ago. I\'m truly thrilled to be joining such a talented team and am hopeful I can add tremendous value from day one.\"
About Reply.com, Inc. Reply.com, Inc. operates the leading marketplace for locally-targeted advertisers. Reply.com\'s platform provides advertisers of all sizes with a simple and scalable solution for locally-targeted marketing. Reply.com owns and operates many destination sites including iMotors.com, Contractors.com and MerchantCircle.com, which is the largest online network of local business owners in the nation with over 1.4 million member merchants and 17 million monthly local consumer visits. To learn more about Reply.com, please visit www.reply.com.
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BOSTON, MA - December 12, 2012 - Rapid7, a leading provider of IT security risk management software and cloud-based services, today announced three key appointments to the company\'s leadership team: Steven Gatoff will take the role of chief financial officer (CFO); and Jay Leader has joined the company as chief information officer (CIO). Additionally, Michael Berry joins the Board of Directors as chairman of the Audit Committee. The new appointments will help drive continued growth and leadership at the company, which has grown more than 900% over the last four years.
Steven Gatoff, CFO
Steven brings more than 20 years of leadership experience and an accomplished track record of success in building organizations, driving change and increasing value for technology companies. Steven joins Rapid7 from iPass Inc. (NASDAQ: IPAS) where he was senior vice president and CFO and was instrumental in driving more than three times growth in stockholder value during his tenure. Prior to iPass, Steven held financial executive leadership roles at United Online (NASDAQ: UNTD), Sterling Commerce and VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) and spent nearly a decade in investment banking with Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse First Boston and Bear Stearns. Steven is a CPA and holds an MBA, with honors, from Columbia University.
About Rapid7
Rapid7 is the leading provider of security risk intelligence. Its integrated vulnerability management and penetration testing products, Nexpose and Metasploit, and mobile risk management solution, Mobilisafe, empower organizations to obtain accurate, actionable and contextual intelligence into their threat and risk posture. Rapid7\'s solutions are used by more than 2,000 enterprises and government agencies in more than 65 countries, while the Company\'s free products are downloaded more than one million times per year and enhanced by the more than 175,000 members of its open source security community. Rapid7 has been recognized as one of the fastest growing security companies by Inc. Magazine and as a \"Top Place to Work\" by the Boston Globe. Its products are top rated by Gartner®, Forrester® and SC Magazine. The Company is backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Technology Crossover Ventures. For more information about Rapid7, please visit http://www.rapid7.com.
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Daversa Partners is pleased to announce Bob Walmsley as the new Area Vice President of Enterprise for Docusign, the leader in electronic signature at a platform. Mr. Walmsley has extensive experience in Enterprise Sales and a successful track record of direct sales and sales leadership. Prior to Docusign, Mr. Walmsley served as the Group VP of HMC Applications Sales for Oracle,where he led a team of sales professionals in Oracle’s human capital management division. Prior to Oracle, he was Regional Vice President of Enterprise Sales at Taleo. Mr. Walmsley is a graduate of the University of Florida.
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Daversa Partners is pleased to announce Michelle De Haaff as Medallia’s new VP of Marketing. Prior to Medallia she served as the Chief Marketing Officer at Attensity and led Marketing and Product Management efforts globally. Earlier in her career she led marketing and product management for both large and small technology and services companies. Michelle came to Attensity from Adspace Networks, where as vice president of marketing and product management she developed programs that helped to more than double the company's revenue in just six months. Michelle oversaw product management and sales to consumer enterprises at Blue Martini Software where she led the development of Blue Martini’s eCommerce, Content Management, Campaign Management and Business Intelligence applications. Previously, Michelle led the eCommerce and database marketing teams at Levi Strauss & Company and worked at Ernst & Young as a CRM practice manager serving large enterprise clients.Michelle graduated magna cum laude from New York University with a B.S. degree in management operations and marketing. She holds an M.S. degree in integrated marketing from Northwestern University.
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Following recent investments from Francisco Partners and Accel Partners, Plex Systems – the leader in cloud-based ERP for manufacturers – today announced the appointment of technology industry veteran Jason Blessing as the company’s chief executive officer. The appointment comes at a time when the company is entering its next growth phase, resulting from small and medium-sized manufacturers making the critical business decision to embrace cloud-based ERP systems. “Manufacturing ERP is, by far, the most complex enterprise software to design and build,” said Blessing. “Plex Systems is the first company to build a cloud-based manufacturing ERP solution and has a significant lead over its competitors in this space. The company has built the most complete cloud offering for manufacturing at precisely the time when manufacturers have become comfortable moving this critical component of their business to the cloud.” Blessing joins Plex Systems from Oracle, where he was senior vice president of application development. Previously, he held a variety of executive roles at Taleo, including general manager of its small and medium-sized business unit and, most recently, executive vice president of products and technology. Taleo, a pioneer in cloud-based talent management solutions, was acquired by Oracle last year. Blessing has also held a variety of executive positions at PeopleSoft, Oracle and Price Waterhouse during his 20-year career in enterprise software. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan. Blessing will direct the expansion of Plex Systems as the company continues to invest in its expanding sales force and its award-winning “shop floor to top floor” technology for ERP, manufacturing execution, quality management, supply chain management and business intelligence. “With its recent $30 million investment from Accel and by naming Jason Blessing as its CEO, Plex Systems is showing a continuing commitment to driving cloud technology in manufacturing organizations,” said Nick Castellina, an enterprise applications research analyst at Aberdeen. “Aberdeen’s research indicates growing acceptance of cloud ERP in manufacturing, and Plex Online is positioned to meet those needs.” Aberdeen further cited that while trends in cloud and SaaS ERP adoption have more than doubled since 2009, trends in the adoption of on-premise solutions have decreased by more than 25 percent. Plex Systems’ cloud-based technology addresses the needs for today’s global, fast-paced manufacturers in all industries to be increasingly transparent, nimble and cost-efficient. “Francisco Partners acquired Plex Systems last year on the belief that there is a long-term, value creation opportunity in cloud-based ERP, and we expect a greater and greater percentage of the ERP market to move to SaaS offerings like those offered by Plex Systems,” said Petri Oksanen, a principal at Francisco Partners. “Jason brings a tremendous breadth and depth of operational expertise that will accelerate Plex Systems’ product development and business growth. His experience in scaling cloud solutions like Taleo and his years with PeopleSoft and Oracle make him the ideal leader to guide the existing management team and take Plex Systems to the next level. ” About Plex Systems, Inc. Plex Systems Inc. is the developer of Plex Online, a Cloud ERP solution for the manufacturing enterprise. Plex Online offers industry-leading features for virtually every department within a manufacturer, including Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and Quality Management System (QMS) for the shop floor, Supply Chain Management (SCM) for procurement, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for finance and management, and Business Intelligence (BI) for executive management. Plex Online’s comprehensive functional coverage delivers a “shop floor to top floor” view of a manufacturer’s operations, enabling management to run its business at maximum efficiency. Founded in 1995, Plex Systems is headquartered in Troy, Mich., with customers around the globe.
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Evidon Appoints Mark Rudolph as Chief Revenue Officer Seasoned Sales Executive Brings More than 15 Years of Technology Sales Experience NEW YORK, Nov 19, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Evidon, the global leader in revealing the invisible web, today announced that it has appointed Mark Rudolph as Chief Revenue Officer. In this new role, Rudolph will be responsible for guiding Evidon's global sales team and devising strategies to further the company's position as a market leader in online privacy and data intelligence. A seasoned enterprise-sales leader with a deep background in developing SaaS-based sales organizations, Rudolph was most recently Vice President of North American Sales and Customer Success at Gomez Inc., which was acquired by Compuware in November 2009. Rudolph joined Gomez in 1999 and became an integral part of the organization that drove the company to be an attractive acquisition target, holding a variety of key sales and management positions. Prior to the acquisition, he was Vice President of North America Enterprise Sales for Gomez. Rudolph holds an MBA from Boston College and a BS in Management from The Georgia Institute of Technology. "Evidon continues to attract the right talent to lead our company into the next phase of our evolution," said Evidon CEO Scott Meyer. "Mark's expertise in growing technology and data-driven businesses will make him a steward of our success in 2013 and beyond. I'm delighted to have him on board." About Evidon Evidon reveals the invisible web. Its technology gives brands, publishers, networks and other businesses around the world unique insight into the digital ecosystem--including unparalleled intelligence on the marketing technologies that underpin the commercial web --and the power to control their impact on business. That technology includes Ghostery(R), Evidon's browser tool that reports on data collection across 26 million websites and informs the company's business control solutions. Evidon also provides market-leading privacy controls for more than $1 billion of display media annually that empower more than 150 million people a day to control how their information is used online. Companies make smarter decisions, protect their businesses and consumer privacy, and grow revenue as a result.
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Daversa Partners is pleased to announce Barry Phillips, as the new Chief Marketing Officer for Egnyte. Prior to Egnyte, Barry was the Chief Marketing Officer of Wanova (acquired by VMware in June 2012) where he led Marketing, Sales, Business Development, and Product Management . Barry came to Wanova from Citrix Systems, where he was the Group Vice President and General Manager of the Delivery Center Product Group. Barry joined Citrix Systems through the acquisition of Net6. Barry has also held Product Management, Marketing, Business Development, and Sales roles in companies such as Nortel Networks, Everypath, and Cranite Systems. He began his career in United States Naval Aviation where he has over 1000 hours in a P-3C Orion with deployments throughout the Pacific. Barry holds a Bachelors of Computer Science from the United States Naval Academy and a Master of Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angeles. Over 1 billion files are shared daily by businesses using Egnyte Hybrid Cloud file server. Egnyte´s unique technology provides the speed and security of local storage with the accessibility of the cloud. privately held company backed by venture capital firms Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Floodgate Fund, and Polaris Venture Partners
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Jeff Sternberg has started in his role as the new Vice President of Engineering for Nexus Research, a software/consulting firm that guides investment managers through their research and due diligence processes by providing them with the most relevant and actionable data, analytics, and market research. Prior, Jeff was the Chief Data Scientist at Capital IQ which has been acquired by S&P.
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Monika Belur joins Collective as its VP of Marketing. Monica came from Peer39 where she was the Director of Marketing. Collective intelligently connects brand marketers to audiences with high impact experiences across display, video and mobile advertising. Our technology solutions include AMP®, our data and media management platform for publishers, and Ensemble™, our audience buying, creative optimization and analytics platform for advertisers. Headquartered in New York with offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London and India, Collective has been recognized for its rapid growth on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Inc. 500/5000 lists. Collective’s investors include Accel Partners®, Greycroft Partners and iNovia Capital.
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Mandy Sebel joins Capital Access Network (CAN) as its Chief People Officer. CAN constitutes the largest, non-bank alternative capital provider to small businesses in the US. The company uses its own real-time platform and risk scoring models to provide capital to small and medium-sized businesses in the US and Latin America and has funded over $2 billion in capital to SMB’s under the brands NewLogic Business Loans and AdvanceMe. This represents roughly 100,000 distinct small business finance transactions.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Dec. 13, 2012 – Mashery, the leader in API Management platforms and services, today announced it has appointed John Oberon, VP, Engineering and Julie Gibbs, VP, Marketing, to help expand Mashery’s operations for the current unprecedented business adoption of APIs, and to help more companies easily manage the urgent complexity of scaling apps and APIs in the enterprise, internally or externally. With two decades of experience across a broad background of SaaS, enterprise and developer technology, John joins Mashery from Intuit, where he was responsible for the Intuit Partner Platform’s customer and developer-facing core infrastructure, data programmability, data correlation analytics, and SaaS solutions. John also spent 12 years at Microsoft, focusing on developer-facing technologies including MSDN, SQL Server, and High Performance Computing. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from California State University, Chico. Julie Gibbs brings to Mashery extensive experience across all marketing channels, with a strong focus on public and analyst relations, content marketing, online communications, SaaS, and social media. She was previously at Good Technologies, where she served as VP of Marketing and Communications for two years. With more than 20 years growing brand and demand at leading software companies during high-growth periods, Julie has also served in executive roles at Oracle, McCann Worldgroup, salesforce.com, and Adobe. Julie focuses on aligning companies’ strategy, communications, and business objectives with customer needs - to increase customer and prospect engagement and drive business value. “Mashery is now managing APIs for 24 Fortune 500 companies, which include some of the biggest brands in the world,” said Oren Michels, co-founder and CEO of Mashery. “Advancing our leadership team with the addition of two top executives such as John and Julie allows Mashery to continue bringing-to-market the tools and resources our existing and future customers want to scale their business with APIs.” 2012 was a staggering growth year for APIs and Mashery, which doubled the number of apps powered by its platform to 55,000, expanded full API Management access to business managers with the Mashery API Explorer, expanded sales operations in Boston and sold out its 6th annual series of Business of APIs conferences in San Francisco, New York and London. According to ProgrammableWeb, which catalogues the creation of new public APIs across the Web, new API programs are ever accelerating, with 8,000 public APIs and growing, led by enterprises.
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Peter Cousins joins Operative as its Chief Technology Officer. Peter came from IBM where he was the Director of Human Resources. Operative is the advertising business management company that allows digital media companies to run their increasingly complex businesses with simplicity. Operative’s next-generation, SaaS based platform and technology-enabled services help media industry leaders and their partners balance operational efficiency with innovation to reduce transaction costs and boost advertising revenue. Launched in October 2010, the Operative.One platform brings together the business processes and systems necessary to package, sell, traffic, manage, optimize and collect revenue on advertising products. More than 200 industry leaders rely on Operative to manage more than $6 billion in global ad revenue annually, including The Wall Street Journal, MSN, OMD, NBC Universal and National Public Media.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Dec. 13, 2012 – Mashery, the leader in API Management platforms and services, today announced it has appointed John Oberon, VP, Engineering and Julie Gibbs, VP, Marketing, to help expand Mashery’s operations for the current unprecedented business adoption of APIs, and to help more companies easily manage the urgent complexity of scaling apps and APIs in the enterprise, internally or externally. With two decades of experience across a broad background of SaaS, enterprise and developer technology, John joins Mashery from Intuit, where he was responsible for the Intuit Partner Platform’s customer and developer-facing core infrastructure, data programmability, data correlation analytics, and SaaS solutions. John also spent 12 years at Microsoft, focusing on developer-facing technologies including MSDN, SQL Server, and High Performance Computing. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from California State University, Chico. Julie Gibbs brings to Mashery extensive experience across all marketing channels, with a strong focus on public and analyst relations, content marketing, online communications, SaaS, and social media. She was previously at Good Technologies, where she served as VP of Marketing and Communications for two years. With more than 20 years growing brand and demand at leading software companies during high-growth periods, Julie has also served in executive roles at Oracle, McCann Worldgroup, salesforce.com, and Adobe. Julie focuses on aligning companies’ strategy, communications, and business objectives with customer needs - to increase customer and prospect engagement and drive business value. “Mashery is now managing APIs for 24 Fortune 500 companies, which include some of the biggest brands in the world,” said Oren Michels, co-founder and CEO of Mashery. “Advancing our leadership team with the addition of two top executives such as John and Julie allows Mashery to continue bringing-to-market the tools and resources our existing and future customers want to scale their business with APIs.” 2012 was a staggering growth year for APIs and Mashery, which doubled the number of apps powered by its platform to 55,000, expanded full API Management access to business managers with the Mashery API Explorer, expanded sales operations in Boston and sold out its 6th annual series of Business of APIs conferences in San Francisco, New York and London. According to ProgrammableWeb, which catalogues the creation of new public APIs across the Web, new API programs are ever accelerating, with 8,000 public APIs and growing, led by enterprises.
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EMERYVILLE, Calif. - October 1, 2012 – Lithium Technologies, the leader in Social Customer Experience, today announced that is has named Sunil Rajasekar as Senior Vice President of Engineering to drive the ongoing expansion of Lithium’s award-winning platform while continuing to rapidly scale the company’s engineering organization. The appointment of Rajasekar, a recognized engineering leader, will allow Lithium to continue to solidify the leadership of its core technology platform and deliver even more groundbreaking innovation that enables companies to turn their Web properties into vibrant social destinations that empower consumers as true extensions of the brand. “The social customer experience is now a strategic imperative and Lithium is singularly focused on enabling brands to engage and enlist their social customers as a critical competitive differentiator,” Lithium President and Chief Executive Officer Rob Tarkoff said. “Sunil will be a key driver of our technology platform that enables brands to deliver innovative and engaging social experiences with real, measurable business results.” “It’s a true testament to the strength and prowess of our engineering that we have been able to add a leader of Sunil’s caliber to the Lithium team. I am honored and excited to welcome him to Lithium,” Tarkoff said. With 15 years of experience at companies ranging from Intuit to Oracle and Cisco, Rajasekar is incredibly adept at rapidly scaling engineering teams. He has a deep understanding and successful track record of leading engineering organizations in fast moving, high-volume SaaS and mobile businesses. Rajasekar, who joins immediately, reports directly to Tarkoff. Most recently, Rajasekar served at Intuit as Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Intuit Financial Services where he led a team of more than 300 for the $400 million business unit that was responsible for Intuit's key consumer, mobile and business banking operations along with TurboTax Online Banking and other offerings to financial institutions.
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Ofir Shalom joins Group Commerce as Chief Technology Officer. Ofir came from Fareportal where he was the Senior Vice President of Engineering and Product. He spend 6 years prior as an engineering leader at TheLadders.com. Group Commerce is the market-leading platform for publishers who want to succeed in e-commerce. The company serves the three groups that make an e-commerce program work: the consumer, the publisher, and the merchant. Founded in 2010, Group Commerce is backed by Spark Capital, Carmel Ventures, Lerer Ventures, and Bob Pittman. Its clients include Boston.com, CBS, DailyCandy, Rogers Media, the New York Times, Thrillist, and more.
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Matt Kodama joins Recorded Future as the Vice President of Product Management. Prior to joining Recorded Future, Matt was the VP Product Management of Endeca where he spent 6 and a half years and was responsible for the Endeca core technology (MDEX Engine) underpinning all product lines, eventually culminating in the acquisition of Endeca by Oracle in 2011. During his time at Endeca, Matt held many roles in Product Management and Marketing for the Public Sector line of business, as well as horizontal partnerships. Matt cut his teeth in application development at Kintana where he worked as a product designer and developer. Recorded Future is a software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, and Gothenburg, Sweden, specializing in web intelligence and predictive analytics. Using what they call a "temporal analytics engine", Recorded Future provides forecasting and analysis tools to help analysts predict future events by scanning sources on the Internet, and extracting, measuring, and visualizing the information to show networks and patterns in the past, present, and future.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 27, 2012) - Eventbrite, the leading online registration and ticketing company, today announced the appointment of Matt Rosenberg as senior vice president and department head for the company's fast-growing sales and business development functions. Rosenberg is responsible for growing the global sales organization and leading the team in building on its vision to bring Eventbrite to the world. The company announced in June that it hit $1 billion in gross ticket sales, and will exceed $600 million in gross ticket sales in 2012 alone. Kevin Hartz, Eventbrite CEO and co-founder, comments, "While we've seen impressive year-over-year growth, we are ready to take our sales organization to the next level. Matt's leadership and experience will be key in unlocking new sales opportunities, while bringing a new level of strategy to our sales and business development around the world." In 2011, Eventbrite held nearly 460K events on their platform across a wide range of categories -- from classes, networking functions and races to fundraisers and large festivals and concerts. "Eventbrite's growth has been staggering, and I'm excited to help the team further penetrate the market across various categories around the world," said Rosenberg, senior vice president of global sales and business development at Eventbrite. "Given the company's momentum, strong leadership and powerful platform, I'm confident that we'll maximize the enormous opportunities ahead of us." Prior to Eventbrite, he was Chief Sales Officer at Revana, and before that he headed up sales at ServiceSource where he was instrumental in growing the company from $65M in revenue to over $220 million, which helped the company with a successful IPO in 2011. Matt is a graduate of Northwestern University's School of Law, and received a B.A. in political science from Indiana University. About Eventbrite: Eventbrite enables people all over the world to plan, promote, and sell out any event and has processed over $1 billion in gross ticket sales. Eventbrite makes it easy for everyone to discover events, and to share the events they are attending with the people they know. In this way, Eventbrite brings communities together by encouraging people to connect through live experiences. Eventbrite's investors include Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, DAG Ventures, and Tenaya Capital. Learn more at www.eventbrite.com.
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Gary Slater joins Ariba as its Vice President of Operations. Gary came from LiveOps where he was the Vice President of Network Operations & IT. It all began years ago, with crayons, a paper tablecloth, and some imagination. Over sandwiches at Quadrus Café in Menlo Park, seven colleagues talked about how much time and money businesses wasted whenever they bought goods and services. Their beef: cumbersome and costly paper-intensive processes. They sketched out on the table what an automated solution would have to look like:
It would have a walk-up user interface. It would integrate with enterprise financial systems. It would hook right up to the suppliers. It would run on this new thing called the Internet. And it would fundamentally change business models.
And that’s how Ariba was born. For more than 16 years now, we’ve helped companies like yours control spending and cut costs. We became widely recognized as the leading provider of spend management solutions.
But our solutions have evolved. See, we know that business commerce doesn’t happen within the four walls of your organization. It happens outside, in the space between you and your trading partners. Where business commerce has been notoriously costly and inefficient.
Until now. Ariba is today the leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions. We help companies extend their business commerce processes into the cloud, where they can use our solutions and the Ariba Network to work more efficiently and effectively with their trading partners, and drive more value whenever they’re buying, managing cash, or selling.
Today, the Ariba Network is the world’s largest trading partner community, home to more than 730,000 companies, including more than half of the Fortune 500. And over the next 24 hours, using our solutions and network, companies around the world will:
Buy and sell nearly $822 million worth of goods and services
Save over $82 million in supply costs
Process more than 250,000 purchase orders and payments
And, manage a whole host of other commerce collaborations, like discovering new business opportunities, negotiating contracts, and strengthening working capital.
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Paul Kopacki joins Sencha as its Vice President of Marketing. Paul came from Salesforce.com where he was the Vice President of Marketing. With the release of HTML5, the Web is making the biggest leap forward in a generation. It’s now possible to support local structured storage, rich media, deep device access, and more using a web browser. And these capabilities are transforming how people engage with the Web and approach software design. The fact is, just about every type of application interaction can be delivered from any browser on any device.
With the right development tools from Sencha, the possibilities for today’s mature Web are endless. Our web standards-based products, which support every stage of application development, empower developers to create amazing cross-browser application experiences that execute with precision and performance. We offer HTML5-based web application frameworks tailored for desktop and mobile experiences; design tools that make application UI and CSS3 animation development easy; and the first ever cloud services for mobile application developers, dedicated to supporting your web application at anytime, anywhere.
Our active and growing developer community of over 1.6 million developers and over 300,000 registered community members is a testament to the passion of Sencha and our fan base.
Create amazing apps built on web standards today—with Sencha.
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Reed Elsevier’s Science and Technology Division recently names Sumita Singh as SVP Marketing, Corporate Markets. Prior to Elsevier, Singh had served as the Senior Vice President of Marketing of Thomson Reuters Media. She led the division's efforts to gather, manage, communicate and leverage global and cross-business knowledge of the customers, markets and competitors in order to provide insights that support business strategy. Previously, Singh was the group director of Market Research, Insights & Development at WebMD Health where she was responsible for spearheading the company's efforts to build a marketing analysis and research group and strategically incorporating metrics, consumer insights and reporting into the business Singh holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Delhi, a master's in mass communications from the University of Florida and an master's of business in marketing from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Science and Technology Corporate Markets is part of Elsevier’s Science & Technology division, one of the world’s leading information providers.
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Robin joins DocuSign, the global standard for electronic signatures and transaction management, as Vice President of Online and Mobile. Robin is responsible for growing DocuSign’s online revenue and driving mobile marketing. Robin has executive experience focusing on marketing, strategy, and general management for top-tier start-ups and Fortune 1000 companies. She’s worked across a broad spectrum of technology and consumer-focused companies, including Intuit, Caring.com, Digeo (formerly Moxi Digital), AltaVista, Odwalla, Clorox, and Mercer Management Consulting.
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DocuSign® is the global standard for eSignature. DocuSign helps customers accelerate transaction cycle times to increase speed to revenue, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction with the easiest, fastest, most secure global network for sending, signing, tracking, and storing documents in the cloud
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Suresh Thekkenmar joins Calypso as its Senior Vice President of Professional Services. Suresh came from SS&C Technologies where he was the Senior Vice President and General Manager Institutional. Calypso Technology is a global financial software and services company delivering integrated cross-asset solutions for trading, risk, processing and control.We serve a broad spectrum of customers including sell-side financial institutions such as banks and prime brokers, buy-side firms such as asset managers, hedge funds, insurers and corporates, as well as treasury services providers including exchanges, clearers and service consortiums.
We are the industry leader in modern, open, technology standards, and functional depth and breadth. The Calypso Trading and Risk Management Platform is the industry’s first integrated application suite designed from outset to be true cross-asset, front-to-back office covering a complete range of derivative and treasury products.
Calypso provides superior financial markets capability joined with unprecedented visibility and transparency into the business. Through greater efficiency and better time-to-value, we enable clients to improve profitability, control costs, and pursue new markets and growth opportunities. Founded in 1997, Calypso brought together the best capital markets knowledge from London, Paris and New York with the best technology knowledge from Silicon Valley.
Today - with 125+ top tier customers (including 8 of the top 10 global banks and some of the world's largest investment managers), 25,000+ users, 600+ employees and 17 offices worldwide - Calypso is well recognized for its award-winning product innovations and strong customer service culture. Our team now includes the best and brightest in capital markets and technology from geographies all around the globe.
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Santa Clara, CA , June 04, 2012 Palo Alto Networks today announced that it has appointed Mark Anderson as its first head of worldwide field operations, a new organization in the company that encompasses sales and customer support and services, effective on June 5th. In addition, the company has created a new organization to address its strategy for fast growing emerging markets that will be headed by Larry Link, currently vice-president of sales, who will assume the new role of senior vice-president of emerging markets strategy, effective June 5th.
"Among enterprise IT organizations, Palo Alto Networks has a reputation that is synonymous with innovation, industry leadership, and focus on its customers," said Mark Anderson. "I am honored to lead sales, support, and services for such a highly respected organization."
Mark joins Palo Alto Networks from F5 Networks. Mark joined F5 Networks in 2004, has overseen all sales activities since 2007, and was instrumental in scaling the organization to well over $1B in sales and servicing its customers. During his career, he has also held leadership positions at Lucent Technologies and Cisco Systems.
"Mark brings with him a great depth of leadership experience including an impressive track record of rapidly scaling go to market organizations, and servicing enterprise customers with the highest level of quality and integrity," said Mark McLaughlin, chief executive officer and president at Palo Alto Networks. "We welcome Mark to the organization."
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Elias Terman joins onelogin as its Vice President of Product Marketing. Elias came from SnapLogic where he was the Vice President of Product Marketing. OneLogin's mission is to democratize identity management; making it available to any organization, regardless of size. Historically, identity management has been available only to large enterprises who had the means to purchase expensive software and undertake a complex project. OneLogin gets enterprises up and running in minutes – literally.
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New York – Mediaocean has hired Marcella Butler, most recently Senior Director, Corporate Development, M&A Operations and Integration at Google, to become its Chief Human Resources Officer and SVP, People. Marcella will be responsible for shaping the workforce and culture of the newly formed Mediaocean organization. Within Google, Butler’s roles included HR Director to the global Product Management organization; Finance Director to the Display Advertising Sales organization; and Director of M&A Integration responsible for every aspect of integration of newly acquired businesses, from HR to intellectual property. Her other past positions include COO and Chief Compliance Officer of Pershing Square Capital Management, and Chief Administrative Officer at Sanford C. Bernstein. Prior to joining Bernstein, Butler was an executive search professional with Egon Zehnder in the US and UK. She began her career as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley, specializing in mergers and acquisitions. “Marcella brings incredible energy and creativity, and a very rigorous approach to business practice – particularly in the tech space,” said Bill Wise, CEO, Mediaocean. “She’s precisely the leader we want to help mold an organization that’s continually growing and evolving, and to help it continue to expand at a very fast clip.” Added Butler: “Mediaocean’s human assets are tremendous. It’s an incredibly talented and passionate group of people, who understand the business of marketing technology like no one else around. To empower Mediaocean’s teams to translate their assets into the next generation of marketing technology is a role I’m tremendously excited to begin.”
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DynamicOps’ cloud automation and management solutions enable enterprises to create scalable cloud services in days from existing systems and processes, realizing unparalleled IT efficiency and fastest time-to-cloud value.
DynamicOps was founded in 2008 by Credit Suisse based on its five years of successful, large-scale production deployment with what is now known as DynamicOps Virtual Resource Manager (VRM) software. Before clouds were clouds, the bank developed VRM to address the operational and governance challenges of rolling out virtualization technology across a global organization comprising several distinct businesses.
The financial industry is one of the most demanding with regards to policies and security. With HQ in Switzerland, standards were even stricter. The team at Credit Suisse knew they were onto something when VRM was so successful internally. Credit Suisse formed DynamicOps to expand the offering.
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Marisa Massie joins bazaarvoice as its Corportate Controller. Marisa came from Salesforce.com where he was the Senior Director of Sales Comp Strategy and Enablement. Bazaarvoice is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that turns social media into social commerce for the world's best global brands by enabling authentic customer-powered marketing. We achieve that by first letting consumers create and share ratings, reviews, questions, answers, and stories about products and brands on client websites. We then syndicate that content across the Web and through the channel to reach shoppers wherever they are. This customer-generated content has a tremendously positive influence on purchase decisions. It is also rich with customer intelligence, which we analyze and provide to our clients so they can make real-time, information-based decisions that affect all aspects of their business — marketing, product R&D, and operations. This strategy of putting customers at the center of your business helps you achieve measurable results across your entire enterprise.
Brett Hurt, current Founder and CEO, and Brant Barton, Co-founder and General Manager, Media Solutions, founded Bazaarvoice in 2005. Headquartered in Austin, the company has offices in Amsterdam, London, Munich, Paris, Stockholm, and Sydney.
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Tom Kluckman joins ServiceSource as its Senior Director of Sales. Tom came from PTC where he was the Strategic Accounts Manager.
ServiceSource is the Service Revenue Performance Company. Our mission is to increase service revenue for leading hardware, software, healthcare and life sciences companies. We have delivered over $7 billion in revenue to the industry and we proudly serve a prestigious customer list that includes Adobe, Alcatel-Lucent, GE Healthcare, Affymetrix, Verizon and Blue Coat to name a few.
We grow service revenue for our customers by increasing the number of customers on maintenance, support and subscription agreements, and increasing the amount those customers spend each year. We deliver increased revenues, profits, and shareholder value powering our customers' performance in the marketplace. To date our leadership in Service Revenue Performance has generated over $1.5 billion in free cash flow for our customers and enabled them to do what they do best - develop and sell more products to grow their market share, revenue and earnings.
Gartner Dataquest estimates that support and maintenance offerings in North America alone generate roughly $60 billion a year. Meanwhile, technology companies only capture on average 64% of this potential annuity stream. ServiceSource is committed to closing this gap by increasing services revenues for leading technology companies. We lead this industry due to our focus, expertise, and continuous investment.
Our commitment to results is underscored by our 100% commission based and variable cost model.
ServiceSource International (NASDAQ: SREV) was founded in 1999 and is a publicly traded company. Learn more about the leadership driving our vision forward.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 19, 2012 —Acxiom® Corporation (Nasdaq: ACXM), a recognized leader in marketing services and technology, today announced Dr. Phil Mui as the company’s chief product and engineering officer. Before joining Acxiom, Mui was group product manager for Google Analytics, the world’s leading analytics platform.Reporting to CEO Scott Howe, and holding a position that is new for Acxiom, Chief Product and Engineering Officer Mui will manage a team of more than 750 people. In this role, he will lead the strategic direction, development and management of Acxiom’s global product management and engineering functions. Mui will also have a decisive role in guiding Acxiom’s renewed investment in research and development announced by Howe earlier this year.
“As the third transformative hire on the senior leadership team, Mui is the capstone for our strategic initiatives,” said Howe. “His vision, brilliance and extensive career accomplishments are exactly what Acxiom needs to accelerate our ability to deliver game-changing, client-centric solutions that will help our clients achieve greater success.”
Earlier this year, Acxiom announced the appointment of Warren Jenson, a former CFO for Electronic Arts, Amazon.com, Delta Air Lines and NBC, as chief financial officer, and Nada Stirratt, former chief revenue officer for MySpace and former executive vice president of digital advertising at MTV Networks, as the Acxiom’s first chief revenue officer. Mui’s addition is the latest step in the company’s efforts to bring in new, exceptional, world-class talent at the senior level to drive innovation and growth.
“Acxiom has incredible potential at the nexus of customer analytics and big data,” said Mui. “Bringing online and offline data together with the Acxiom marketing platform will drive significant actionable insights. I am honored to be part of Acxiom’s team to make advertising and marketing much more efficient in the next few years.” According to Google, more than 10 million websites are now using Google Analytics. Also at Google, Mui led the development of an annotation infrastructure which underlies Google+, Google Maps Reviews, Ratings and Google Bookmarks.
Prior to joining Google, Mui served in leadership roles at the Stanford Functional Genomics Facility, Oracle Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Lycos Inc., and a London-based display ads startup.
Mui has a Ph.D., M.Eng., and S.B. (EECS) from MIT where he was a Whitaker Fellow, Harvard/MIT Health Sciences and Technology Fellow, and National Institute of Health Fellow. His dissertation in MIT’s Laboratory for Computer Science was on multi-agents modeling of social networks. He also has an M.Phil. (Management) from Oxford University where he was a Marshall Scholar.
About AcxiomAcxiom is a recognized leader in marketing services and technology that enable marketers to successfully manage audiences, personalize consumer experiences and create profitable customer relationships. Our superior industry-focused, consultative approach combines consumer data and analytics, databases, data integration and consulting solutions for personalized, multichannel marketing strategies. Acxiom leverages over 40 years of experience in data management to deliver high-performance, highly secure, reliable information management services. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America. For more information about Acxiom, visit Acxiom.com.Acxiom is a registered trademark of Acxiom Corporation.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, 2012 – Coverity, Inc., the leader in development testing, announced today the appointment of Matt Green as Chief Revenue Officer. Matt brings over twenty five years of expertise in enterprise software field operations where he has led several companies through rapid growth and profitability. At Coverity, he will be responsible for all facets of revenue generation and field operations for the worldwide sales team and channel partners, as well as continue to build on Coverity's record results in fiscal year 2011 and the first half of fiscal year 2012 as the Company further extends its leadership position in the development testing market.
Prior to Coverity, Green served as Executive Vice President of Sales and Services at Framehawk, a leading enterprise software platform for the secure development and deployment of enterprise applications for mobile devices. Prior to Framehawk, Green served as President of Worldwide Sales at BEA Systems. During his tenure at BEA Systems, Green was responsible for the company's revenue plan worldwide, managing all global field operations including sales, channels, systems engineers, sales support, field marketing and sales operations. Green was instrumental in leading BEA Systems through its successful IPO in 1997 and growing annual revenue from less than $100 million to over $1 billion until its acquisition by Oracle Corporation in 2008 for approximately $8.5 billion. Green has also held executive sales and field operations leadership positions at Cassatt Corporation, Walker Interactive Systems, McDonnell Douglas Information Systems Group and Burroughs Corporation.
"We have assembled a seasoned executive team with a proven track record leading and scaling enterprise software companies," said Anthony Bettencourt, Chief Executive Officer at Coverity. "With the addition of Matt, we have rounded out our executive team, and with his experience and leadership, we are well poised to continue our rapid growth into the future. I look forward to working with Matt."
About CoverityCoverity, (www.coverity.com), the development testing leader, is the trusted standard for companies that need to protect their brands and bottom lines from software failures. More than 1,100 Coverity customers use Coverity's development testing suite of products to automatically test source code for software defects that could lead to product crashes, unexpected behavior, security breaches, or catastrophic failure. Coverity is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco. Coverity is funded by Foundation Capital and Benchmark Capital. Follow us on Twitter or check out our blog.
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Nicira, the once secretive networking technology start-up that aims to mess up the business of giants like Cisco Systems, has just made another key executive hire. Denis Murphy, the senior vice president for the Americas at Riverbed Technology, has joined Nicira as VP of Sales.
Murphy has spent the last eight years at Riverbed, and before that spent about seven years at places like Mercury Interactive, EMC and BlueArc. He’s joining Nicira just as it’s getting off the ground for real. It has been hiring an impressive roster of people away from companies like Cisco and Juniper for several months.
Nicira is backed by investments from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and NEA, plus personal investments from VMWare founder Diane Greene and venture capitalist Andy Rachleff. I first noticed it when it hired Alan Cohen away from Cisco as its vice president of marketing.
It aims to be the vendor of a new networking technology that’s built specifically for the age of cloud computing. While the pipes through which bits flow in and out of data centers have gotten faster, there’s a need to make them smarter and more flexible, not unlike virtual servers in that data center. Adding Nicira’s software to a server creates the ability to “spin up” virtual networks as readily as you might virtual servers in order to meet surging demand. Nicira calls it an NVP, or network virtualization platform. AT&T, eBay, Fidelity Investments, Rackspace and the Japanese telecom giant NTT are all using Nicira, the company says.
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Santa Clara, CA , June 04, 2012 Palo Alto Networks today announced that it has appointed Mark Anderson as its first head of worldwide field operations, a new organization in the company that encompasses sales and customer support and services, effective on June 5th. In addition, the company has created a new organization to address its strategy for fast growing emerging markets that will be headed by Larry Link, currently vice-president of sales, who will assume the new role of senior vice-president of emerging markets strategy, effective June 5th.
"Among enterprise IT organizations, Palo Alto Networks has a reputation that is synonymous with innovation, industry leadership, and focus on its customers," said Mark Anderson. "I am honored to lead sales, support, and services for such a highly respected organization."
Mark joins Palo Alto Networks from F5 Networks. Mark joined F5 Networks in 2004, has overseen all sales activities since 2007, and was instrumental in scaling the organization to well over $1B in sales and servicing its customers. During his career, he has also held leadership positions at Lucent Technologies and Cisco Systems.
"Mark brings with him a great depth of leadership experience including an impressive track record of rapidly scaling go to market organizations, and servicing enterprise customers with the highest level of quality and integrity," said Mark McLaughlin, chief executive officer and president at Palo Alto Networks. "We welcome Mark to the organization."
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Rainer Gawlick was appointed Chief Marketing Officer for IntraLinks in April 2012 and named EVP of Global Sales and Marketing in January 2013. Prior to joining IntraLinks, Rainer served as Chief Marketing Officer for Sophos from 2008 to 2012. Previously, he was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at two publicly traded software companies, SolidWorks and Aspen Technology, Inc. Additionally, his experience includes four years at McKinsey and Company as well as numerous executive and board positions in the technology industry. Rainer has a bachelor's degree in physics from The University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.
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As VP of Engineering, I lead TraceLink’s engineering department and am ultimately responsible for the development of TraceLink’s cloud-based service. My goal is to improve and expand the functionality of the TraceLink service with on-time delivery and high quality. I started 25 years ago as a development manager and product manager for Oracle ERP. Since that time my career has focused along one of two dimensions – first, a focus on supply chain applications, in positions of engineering leadership at supply chain companies such as Oracle, i2 Technologies, WorldChain and Optum; second, a focus on application integration and B2B products at Vitria Technology and Scribe Software. TraceLink is perfect blend of these domains, leveraging a cloud-based architecture allow businesses to seamlessly exchange information and provide a common unified view of their supply chain
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Hara, the leader in enterprise software for energy management and sustainability, announced that Chris Krook has been named Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr Krook will report to Dan Leff, CEO. Chris Krook brings over 20 years of finance experience in the software industry to Hara. As CFO, Chris is responsible for leading all finance and back-office operations of Hara.
Before joining Hara, Chris served as CFO of InQuira, Inc, a leading provider of knowledge management software until the company’s acquisition by Oracle. Prior to InQuira, Chris spent 10 years as CFO of Comergent Technologies, Inc. until its acquisition by Sterling Commerce/ AT&T. Earlier, Chris held senior financial positions at Connectify (acquired by Kana Communications) and NetGravity (acquired by DoubleClick). Chris began his career in public accounting with Arthur Andersen & Co.Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Colorado and is a California certified public accountant.
About Hara
Hara’s enterprise software platform for energy and sustainability management dramatically reduces energy costs and risks to substantially improve operating profits and enhance sustainability. Hara’s more than 55 customers span global multi-national and public sector organizations including: Aflac, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Dell, Diebold, Bloomberg, eBay, Energizer, Harvard University, HP, Hasbro, Intuit, News Corporation, Safeway, Tishman Speyer, Union Bank, U.S. Bank and the cities of Las Vegas, Palo Alto and Philadelphia.
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Coverity, a leader in software development testing, recently hired John Calonico as Chief Financial Officer. Calonico brings deep experience in international finance, including accounting, merger and acquisition, treasury, human resources, facilities, and information systems to his new role. He most recently served as CFO at Aster Data and prior as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Interwoven, a leader in content management solutions. At Interwoven, he helped drive profitable growth as sales reached more than $250 million prior to its acquisition by Autonomy. Previously, Calonico served as the Chief Financial Officer of Blue Martini Software, Inc., where he managed and successfully completed the company’s initial public offering. He has held vice president of finance positions for BEA Systems and Autodesk, and began his career with top five accounting firm of Ernst & Young. Calonico holds a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from Golden Gate University and is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of California.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 18, 2012) - Boundary, developer of real-time network and applications monitoring-as-a-service, today announced that former Nimsoft CEO Gary Read has joined the company as President and CEO. Boundary offers DevOps teams continuous visibility into their network and application traffic flows in public cloud environments like Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Cloud, or private cloud data centers.
Gary previously served as CEO of Nimsoft, providers of the award-winning Cloud monitoring solution. At Nimsoft, Gary grew the business from zero to over $100M in bookings and 300 people, and successfully led the company to a $350M acquisition by CA Technologies in 2010. Boundary\'s founder, Cliff Moon, continues in his role as CTO and is responsible for the design, development and operation of Boundary\'s real-time monitoring-as-a-service. Gary will also be appointed to the Boundary board of directors, alongside Cliff and John Vrionis of Lightspeed Venture Partners.
\"We\'re ecstatic that Gary has decided to join Boundary,\" said John Vrionis, Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners and Boundary board member. \"His track record leading and growing Nimsoft makes him the perfect match for Boundary and its SaaS real-time monitoring service.\"
Boundary\'s SaaS-based offering is the industry\'s first real-time monitoring service that requires no hardware probes or software code changes. It offers unmatched scalability, analyzing traffic flows at one-second granularity across millions of simultaneous metrics, providing DevOps teams the continuous application and infrastructure visibility required to support continuous deployment and rapid recovery.
\"IT management needs to be significantly improved. Most existing solutions are based on decades-old technology, rely on SQL-based databases, and are simply too static and complex to use for today\'s agile, cloud-based infrastructures,\" said Gary Read, CEO of Boundary. \"I believe Boundary is ideally positioned to lead this revolution and take customers into a truly new generation of management. By eliminating the visibility gaps created when applications are deployed into the cloud, Boundary solves one of the cloud\'s biggest hurdles -- cloud performance assurance.\"
The Boundary platform was built for DevOps engineers by DevOps engineers. It is a Big Data collection, streaming, and real-time analytics system for processing high-dimensionality sensor network data at high speed and low latency. Boundary is currently in beta with plans for general availability the first half of 2012. For more information, visit www.boundary.com.
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Media6Degrees proudly announces Elizabeth Hellman as their new Chief Marketing Officer. Elizabeth joins the company from Alloy Media where as VP Corporate Marketing she played a crucial role in driving the brand development of Alloy Media + Marketing. Prior to Alloy, Elizabeth served as Associate Director of Marketing at Scholastic Inc, a global children’s publishing, education and media company. She also held roles at Sotheby’s and Radio City Music Hall. Elizabeth earned a B.A in Art History from Dartmouth College.
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Bob Brennan brings more than 25 years of corporate leadership experience to his role of CEO at Veracode. Brennan was previously the president and CEO at Iron Mountain, a publicly traded data protection and information management services company.
At Iron Mountain, Brennan developed and implemented global operating strategies to drive growth, enhance customer service and ensure consistency and efficiency across the organization. He oversaw the company’s operations in 39 countries, the worldwide Digital business unit, as well as all enterprise support functions including human resources, information technology, security and global standards. During his tenure, Iron Mountain’s revenue grew from $1.8 billion in 2004 to $3.1 billion in 2010. Brennan was previously CEO of Connected Corporation, the market leader for enterprise PC data protection, which was acquired by Iron Mountain.
Prior to Connected Corp., Brennan was a General Manager with Cisco Systems, Inc. for Network and Service Management. He served as president and CEO at American Internet prior to its acquisition by Cisco in 1998. Previous experience includes senior management roles at Merisel, Inc., Microcom Corporation and Microamerica.
Brennan earned a degree in Psychology from Manhattan College
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Emeryville, Calif. November 15, 2011 – Lithium Technologies, the leader in Social Customer Solutions, today announced it has named Jim Drill as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, marking the latest significant appointment to the company's executive team. With more than two decades of proven sales and marketing leadership at major technology companies, Drill will position Lithium even more strongly to continue its rapid sales growth.
Drill joins immediately and is responsible for driving Lithium's comprehensive global sales strategy. He serves on the company’s executive management team, reporting directly to Lithium President and Chief Executive Officer Rob Tarkoff.
"I'm very pleased to welcome an enterprise sales executive of Jim's caliber to the Lithium team," Tarkoff said. "Jim has an impeccable track record of leading diverse teams within dynamic, growing companies to achieve record sales results. This addition of yet another proven industry veteran to our executive bench further enhances our ability to execute on the incredible market opportunity before us."
Drill joins Lithium from BMC Software where he served as Vice President of Americas Sales, including Latin America and public sector sales. In that role, Drill led an organization of 400 sales professionals carrying a $300 million quota, and spearheaded the complete re-engineering of a complex enterprise sales organization.
"Lithium is in an unbelievably solid position to completely dominate the social business software market," Drill said. "I'm thrilled at the prospects of empowering brands across the globe to define, grow and engage their social customers with Lithium's groundbreaking social engagement platform."
Prior to BMC Software, Drill served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Development at Imperva, where he built a professional enterprise sales and business development organization from the ground up and grew the company's customer base by more than tenfold across 35 countries in just three years. Drill has held sales leadership roles at IMlogic, MedSource Technologies and Parametric Technology. He began his career at IBM 23 years ago.
Drill holds a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lithium continues to attract distinguished leaders from across the enterprise software industry. The company recently appointed former Documentum Chairman & CEO Jeffrey Miller to its board of directors and named Adobe and Salesforce.com veteran Ed Van Siclen as SVP of Business Development & Global Alliances. Tarkoff joined Lithium as President and CEO from Adobe, where he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Digital Enterprise Solutions business unit, which had annual revenue exceeding $1 billion.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – January 17, 2012 – Engine Yard, the leading Platform as a Service (PaaS), today announced the appointment of William (Bill) Platt as vice president of worldwide customer service. In his new role, Platt will be responsible for leading the company’s global customer service organization as Engine Yard expands to meet increasing demand for PaaS worldwide.
A dynamic technology executive with 25 years of experience, Bill Platt spent the last four years at NComputing, a desktop virtualization startup, serving as the senior vice president responsible for product development and support for all virtualization client software and virtual desktop devices. Prior to NComputing, Platt was senior vice president of products at Wyse Technologies. His career also includes a 15-year tenure at Sun Microsystems where Platt built multiple businesses in the services organization for the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions, as well as serving as a vice president in the software business unit responsible for Solaris and the Java Enterprise System.
“Engine Yard continues to raise the bar in the PaaS market with its product innovation and customer-centric approach,” said Roger Levy, Senior VP of Products at Engine Yard. “Bill’s experience leading some of the industry’s premier service and support organizations will be of tremendous benefit as Engine Yard enters the next phase of its growth and PaaS has greater adoption in the enterprise.”
“I’m excited to join a company with a world-class customer service operation that supports thousands of businesses using PaaS to accelerate their application innovation,” said Platt. “The breadth of scalable, reliable products and services delivered by Engine Yard empowers customers to deploy applications with confidence and ease.”
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Abiquo Appoints Industry Veteran Matt McLaughlin as Executive Vice President of Global Field Operations Former StrongMail and BEA Systems Exec Brings 20 Years of Progressive Technology Experience Redwood City, Calif. – October 11, 2011 – Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud software company, announced today the appointment of Matthew McLaughlin to the position of Executive Vice President of Global Field Operations. McLaughlin previously held the same role at StrongMail Systems, a solution provider for email and social media marketing.At StrongMail, McLaughlin managed a worldwide field organization of approximately 60 employees, and grew perpetual and SaaS revenues 55 percent year-over-year for each of his four years at the company. He brought on high-level customers including WalMart, Dow Jones, Netflix, Tesco, Sony, Cisco and AT&T.
“We are very pleased to welcome Matt to our executive management team,” said Pete Malcolm, Abiquo CEO. “Matt brings Abiquo a wealth of experience in technology sales and business development in both domestic and international markets. We foresee his efforts leading the company to considerable growth in revenues and an expansion of our worldwide presence.”“Abiquo is uniquely positioned to meet the needs of enterprises around the World that are moving to private, public and hybrid cloud models,” said McLaughlin. “I look forward to utilizing my experience to guide the company to new heights of global growth.”
Prior to his position at StrongMail, McLaughlin was the Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at Azul Systems, Inc., a maker of high-performance JVMS and elastic Java runtimes. He produced 32 customers for the company’s main product line, including Avaya, Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Wachovia.
About Abiquo
Abiquo is the leading Enterprise Cloud software company. Designed to meet strategic objectives, rather than as a temporary tactical fix, Abiquo is built on open standards, allowing organizations of all sizes to dramatically improve business agility, mitigate risk, and reduce costs. With Abiquo, organizations can use business policy to manage an entire, globally deployed computing infrastructure, comprising unlimited physical and Cloud resources including private, public and hybrid Clouds through a “single pane of glass”. As a result, Abiquo customers are able to significantly decrease the cost and complexity of managing their virtual IT environments, while maintaining control of the physical infrastructure and increasing agility to change hypervisors as needed. For more information, visit www.abiquo.com.
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Boulder, Colo. - November 16, 2011 - SolidFire, a provider of all-solid-state (SSD) primary storage systems for cloud service providers, today announced that Mark Glasgow has joined the company as vice president of worldwide sales. Glasgow joined SolidFire from Xiotech, where he was the worldwide vice president of sales for the past six years. This executive announcement follows the recent $25 million Series B funding that SolidFire received earlier this month.
Glasgow has 20 years of sales and sales management experience within the data storage and enterprise computing markets, and has broad experience selling into large carrier-class customers, as well those deploying both public and private cloud environments.
Under Glasgow's sales leadership, Xiotech refocused sales efforts towards performance-centric solutions, driving a totally new storage platform to a compound annual growth of nearly 80 percent and delivering more than 5,000 units of the new platform to the market within a four-year period. Glasgow also established several strategic initiatives and expanded selling relationships with VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. Prior to Xiotech, he served as the vice president of sales at Talk2 Technology (acquired by PumaTech), TenFold Corporation (acquired by DevonWay) and WireCache.
"SolidFire is solving real storage challenges for cloud providers today. I have been watching the company for a while and I was impressed with the technology, the storage expertise of the team, and the number of cloud providers already in its Early Access Program," said Glasgow. "I have already had the opportunity to sit in on a number of SolidFire customer calls, and interest is incredibly high. When you get to hear feedback that is so positive this early in the game, it makes you proud to be part of the team that is delivering this product to market."
"We began our Early Access Program this summer and the customer feedback has been extremely positive. With momentum and customer interest moving in the right direction, we wanted to add an experienced executive to build and lead our sales team, and we found that in Mark," said Dave Wright, SolidFire founder and CEO. "Our pipeline is growing, and Mark's appointment will help us continue to respond to customer interest with a sales team that can support our growth. We are pleased to have him here at SolidFire; I know that his industry expertise and relationships are going to be extremely important for us in the coming months."
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Joe Fuca serves as DocuSign’s senior vice president of worldwide sales. Joe brings to DocuSign more than twenty-three years of consistent success in executive sales management and strategic account sales, most recently as vice president of North American consumer sales at McAfee. Prior to joining McAfee, Joe worked as senior vice president of worldwide sales at MarketLive, and regional vice president of sales at PeopleSoft.
Joe has served in executive leadership roles in both private and public companies, building teams for multi-channel sales models as large as 250 people and $600 million in revenue. Joe holds a BA in business from California Lutheran University.
DocuSign® is the global standard for eSignature. DocuSign helps customers accelerate transaction cycle times to increase speed to revenue, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction with the easiest, fastest, most secure global network for sending, signing, tracking, and storing documents in the cloud.
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Orlando, FL — October 04, 2011 — Pentaho, the Business Analytics company providing power for technologists and speed for users, today announced the appointment of Quentin Gallivan as its new CEO. With sales and market presence expanding at a record pace, Pentaho recruited the industry veteran to aggressively lead the company through its next phase of growth. Founding CEO, Richard Daley, will remain active on the Board of Directors and assume the role of Chief Strategy Officer where his focus will be on strategic initiatives, customer and partner relationships and leading product strategies including Big Data, customer adoption and Cloud Analytics.
Mr. Gallivan has a winning track record of scaling technology companies in high-growth markets over the last 20 years. Highlights include:
Building Aster Data, where he was CEO, into a global leader in Big Data Analytics before its acquisition by Teradata in April 2011;
Scaling operations at Postini, where he was also CEO, to support more than 35,000 customers and over 10 million users in 25 countries and to generate more than $100M in revenues before its acquisition by Google in 2007;
Helping to grow VeriSign, where he served as Executive Vice President of worldwide sales and service for eight years, from $13 million in revenues in 1997 to more than a billion in revenues in 2004;
Spending 12 years with General Electric Company in key executive roles leading business units in Asia Pacific and the Americas.
“Quentin Gallivan came to our attention because of his proven ability to lead top-performing teams, his passion for the analytics market and his track record in driving shareholder value,” said Rob Bearden, Chairman of the Board, Pentaho. “Pentaho has a fast-growing customer and partner base and we’re confident that Quentin will successfully lead the company into the next phase of growth in an explosive BI and analytics marketplace.”
“While organizations everywhere are struggling to integrate and analyze massive volumes of data, Pentaho is uniquely positioned as the only technology provider with a full suite of tools to help its customers unleash the power of their data,” said Richard Daley, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Pentaho. “I look forward to teaming with Quentin on our quest to be the leader in Business Analytics.”
“I am passionate about Analytics and appreciate the challenges that companies have in gaining insight from the massive amounts and diversity of data that they collect and manage,” said Quentin Gallivan, CEO, Pentaho. “Pentaho is the one company that can bring together - in an integrated and low-cost platform - the traditional world of transaction data with the new world of web, social media and device data.”
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NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kaminario, a leading provider of high performance all solid-state SAN storage solutions, today announced that sales and business development expert Phillip Williams has joined the company as vice president of business development. Williams will be responsible for expanding the company's partner and channel programs worldwide and nurturing its current relationships with Dell, Fusion-io and Matrix. He has extensive experience in developing and executing strategic alliances and channel programs for both large multinational companies and venture-backed startups.
Williams joins Kaminario from Dell's Information Data Management and storage group. Prior to Dell, he was the vice president of Global Business Development and Solutions Marketing at NetApp. At NetApp he was instrumental in helping drive NetApp's growth strategy in NAS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel by developing key strategic partnerships and marketing programs with Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, SAS and key vertical software providers in areas such as financial services, energy, product design and manufacturing. Prior to NetApp, Williams also held executive positions in business development, marketing and channels at Intraware, BITsource and Novell.
"Phil has a proven track record of building key revenue-generating partnerships and channels sales organizations," said Dani Golan, CEO of Kaminario. "We are excited to have such a seasoned business development executive join the Kaminario team. His multifaceted experience and business development leadership will help us drive Kaminario's growth."
"I have helped companies like NetApp go through their hypergrowth and achieve outstanding results in terms of market share and revenue," said Williams. "Kaminario is at that critical point in its hypergrowth and is poised to revolutionize the SAN storage market."
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Hank Skorny announced last week his intentions to leave RealNetworks, the Seattle software company where he’d worked for the past two years as chief strategy officer. At the time, it was unclear what Skorny planned to do next. But, now, GeekWire has learned that the Seattle tech veteran has landed a new gig at Intel.
Skorny will become vice president and general manager of consumer services within the semiconductor giant’s Software and Services Group.
“In his role at Intel, Hank is responsible for the Intel strategy and delivery of a unified approach to Intel consumer services across the compute continuum, including Intel AppUp and other pending service transactions,” according to a memo on the appointment from Intel’s Renee James. The memo added that Skorny — who will be based in Redmond as of September 19th – will help Intel increase revenue in consumer services and boost the company’s relevancy with consumers.
Skorny has been around the block in the Seattle tech industry. Prior to RealNetworks — where he oversaw the company’s Unifi media storage service — Skorny served as CEO of Thumbspeed. Before that, he held executive roles at AOL Mobile and InfoSpace.He’s actually scheduled to speak this afternoon at the Mobile Future Forward conference in Seattle, and I am hoping to track him down to discuss more about what he’ll be doing at Intel.
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Billerica, Mass., November 2, 2011 – VoltDB (www.voltdb.com), the leading provider of high-throughput relational database systems, today announced the appointments of Sam Berg as vice president of field operations and John Piekos as vice president of engineering. Both executives will help to further build VoltDB’s leadership in emerging NewSQL markets.
“New high velocity data applications are coming online daily, signaling a period of tremendous opportunity in the market for Big Data solutions,” said VoltDB CEO Scott Jarr. “Sam and John will significantly impact our strategy, operations and culture as we strive to deepen our customer relationships and expand VoltDB’s market leadership position. We’re thrilled to be adding these two seasoned executives to our management team as we enter this period of growth and expansion.”
Prior to joining VoltDB, Sam Berg was vice president of sales at Nexaweb and was responsible for the company’s transition from proprietary web development tools to one of the leaders in the legacy modernization space. During his tenure at Nexaweb, the company turned to profitability and experienced significant growth at the height of the economic downturn. Prior to Nexaweb, he served in critical sales and account management roles with SAP America and IBM, where he consistently over-achieved quota, developed year-over-year pipeline growth, and earned top sales honors. Prior to joining IBM, Sam held account management and sales roles with Ascential Software and Vality Software.
“I’m very excited to be joining the VoltDB team,” said Berg. “Big Data applications are driving a phenomenal renaissance in the database management market, and I believe VoltDB is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the high-growth segments of that market, leveraging our open source programs and an increasing base of enterprise customer deployments. I look forward to serving VoltDB’s customers, partners and distributors.”
John Piekos has held technical leadership positions at several companies, most recently at Progress Software where he led the OpenEdge database, ObjectStore database and Orbix product lines. Previously, John was vice president of Web Engineering at EasyAsk, and chief architect Novera Software, where he led the effort to build the industry's first Java Application Server.
“I’m a huge believer in the performance and scale that can be achieved with the VoltDB’s main-memory architecture,” said Piekos. “The market is eager for database alternatives, and VoltDB delivers all of the components needed to build, test, deploy and manage ultra-high throughput applications. I’m excited about helping VoltDB to become the database of choice for open source and commercial developers worldwide.”
About VoltDB
Designed by DBMS pioneer Mike Stonebraker for organizations that have reached theprice/performance limitations of general purpose SQL databases, VoltDB combines the proven power of relational processing with blazing speed, linear scalability and uncompromising fault tolerance. VoltDB is the ideal database solution for high velocity database applications that require 100% accuracy and real-time analytics.
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Billerica, Mass., November 2, 2011 – VoltDB (www.voltdb.com), the leading provider of high-throughput relational database systems, today announced the appointments of Sam Berg as vice president of field operations and John Piekos as vice president of engineering. Both executives will help to further build VoltDB’s leadership in emerging NewSQL markets.
“New high velocity data applications are coming online daily, signaling a period of tremendous opportunity in the market for Big Data solutions,” said VoltDB CEO Scott Jarr. “Sam and John will significantly impact our strategy, operations and culture as we strive to deepen our customer relationships and expand VoltDB’s market leadership position. We’re thrilled to be adding these two seasoned executives to our management team as we enter this period of growth and expansion.”
Prior to joining VoltDB, Sam Berg was vice president of sales at Nexaweb and was responsible for the company’s transition from proprietary web development tools to one of the leaders in the legacy modernization space. During his tenure at Nexaweb, the company turned to profitability and experienced significant growth at the height of the economic downturn. Prior to Nexaweb, he served in critical sales and account management roles with SAP America and IBM, where he consistently over-achieved quota, developed year-over-year pipeline growth, and earned top sales honors. Prior to joining IBM, Sam held account management and sales roles with Ascential Software and Vality Software.
“I’m very excited to be joining the VoltDB team,” said Berg. “Big Data applications are driving a phenomenal renaissance in the database management market, and I believe VoltDB is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the high-growth segments of that market, leveraging our open source programs and an increasing base of enterprise customer deployments. I look forward to serving VoltDB’s customers, partners and distributors.”
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SAN DIEGO, CA, Oct 03, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- ServiceNow, the creators of SaaS for IT, today announced that Arne Josefsberg has joined the company as chief technology officer, and will lead continued improvements to the ServiceNow platform and drive expansion of the company's cloud strategy. Arne will report directly to Chief Executive Officer Frank Slootman.
Arne joins ServiceNow after more than 25 years with Microsoft where he most recently served as general manager of Windows Azure Infrastructure. His previous strategic leadership roles, coupled with proven experience in architecting and building large-scale cloud deployments, will help ServiceNow accelerate its already explosive growth rate by delivering the industry's most scalable, resilient, and flexible IT platform.
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Burlington, MA July 07, 2011 - Expressor Software, the leading provider of free and affordable data integration software, today announced that Dave Mohr has joined the company as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Dave is an experienced sales leader with deep knowledge of the software industry and enterprise software solutions, having spent the past 15 years in the Business Intelligence (BI) & Performance Management enterprise software industry. He brings a wealth of experience with free-to-paid and open-source business models, along with the ability to scale sales teams from early startup stages to organizations with double-digit annual sales revenues. He will be responsible for growing and leading expressor’s sales team and operations.
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Chevy Chase, MD and Fremont, CA – June 9, 2011 - JackBe, the leading Real-Time Intelligence solutions provider, today announced it has appointed Rick Pitts, former president and chief executive officer of the North and South American regions for Business Intelligence (BI) software provider QlikTech [NASDAQ:QLIK], as its new chief executive officer. Working closely with a seasoned management team, Pitts will apply his 20+ years of software industry experience to expand JackBe’s Real-Time Intelligence solution to its Fortune 5000 clients, while expanding the company’s partner channel.
“JackBe is a technology thought leader with rule-breaking innovations, like access to live data, that raises the bar for those decision makers who need real-time information and situational analysis in dynamic or volatile operating conditions. I am thrilled to join the company, as I see all of the same disruptive, high-growth possibilities I experienced at QlikTech,” said Rick Pitts. “I look forward to working with the team at JackBe and building upon the impressive momentum they have already achieved.”
JackBe’s Real-Time Intelligence Solution, Presto, recently cited by Forrester Research as a “Unified Next-Generation BI” technology, delivers real-time, actionable information from live, disparate enterprise systems to any business device or destination. Pitts’ extensive management and sales background, combined with his enterprise and mid-market BI expertise, will further elevate JackBe’s position as the only BI vendor bringing Real-Time Intelligence to organizations with critical, time-sensitive information needs.
Pitts comes to JackBe from the North/South America subsidiary of QlikTech, a $180m, industry-leading software company in data analysis and business intelligence, where he grew the company’s revenue over 1000% in a three-and-a-half-year period, firmly establishing QlikTech’s industry presence and visibility in the US, Canadian, and Latin American markets. Prior, Pitts held numerous executive positions including vice president of the Small and Midsize Business (SMB) unit for SAP America, Inc., president and chief executive officer for IXOS Software, Inc., and vice president for SAP’s Complementary Software Program.
“Rick brings a unique collection of industry and business knowledge to JackBe. It is his proven ability to build successful, high-growth technology organizations that will fuel adoption of our Real-Time Intelligence solution,” said Luis Derechin, president and co-founder of JackBe. “His appointment further underscores JackBe’s commitment to become the next-generation real-time BI leader and is a testament to our continuing effort to deliver immediate, self-service real-time intelligence solutions.”
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Since the CloudBees adventure started, a little over a year ago, we've made very fast progress and delivered the only end-to-end, develop-to-deploy, Java PaaS on the market, available in GA.
But our progress hasn't been solely on the product side, we've also made considerable steps forward on the business side with - for example - the recent addition of Josh Allen to the team. Today, we are announcing a key hire: Jim McLoughlin is joining CloudBees as VP of Sales.
Finding the proper profile for this position has been an interesting challenge. We wanted somebody who understand developers on one hand, who understand Enterprises one the other, and, since we are in the cloud-era, somebody who also perfectly masters the SaaS no-touch/low-touch business models. Furthermore, since the cloud is a nascent market, I wanted somebody with substantial "depth".
Thanks to his past experiences at Borland, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards and more recently Appirio, Jim has this unique mix of skills, and I am very proud to have him part of the team.
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New York, NY (PRWEB) June 13, 2011 - Ixtens, a Software-as-a-Service provider of eCommerce connectivity and automation, today announced plans to rapidly grow their U.S. team in response to strong demand from large retailers and media companies.
Ixtens will be hiring over 30 new employees this year in a variety of positions. The growth comes as online merchants, media companies and suppliers continue to expand their eCommerce operations, increasingly turning to Ixtens to power new marketplaces, web-enable their legacy systems and centralize their inventory.
Notably, Ixtens recently added Robert Teichman as VP, Product Development, to its seasoned executive team. Rob comes to Ixtens from GSI Commerce, where he was most recently the Senior Director of Marketplaces. Rob will apply his 20+ years’ experience in eCommerce to manage the Ixtens product roadmap, and guide product functional requirements based on current and future market needs “Ixtens has experienced significant growth and continued strong demand from the online community for our product and services offering” said Paul Kogan, SVP Business Development “This traction has caused us to accelerate our growth. We’re going after the best talent in the industry – wherever we can find it.”
The company had received a round of funding from investors Greycroft Partners, BV Capital and Marvin Traub, and is now applying these funds to continue growing the team.
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Dan Sormaz recently joined Boxee as their Head of Design. Boxee is the creator of the Boxee Box and is a partially open-source freeware media player software platform that integrates personal locally stored media with Internet streaming media along with social networking features. Boxee’s social networking component allows users to share information about what they are watching or listening to with other Boxee users or friends on social networks like Twitter, Facebook, etc. In this new role, Sormaz will be responsible for designing the features of the Boxee software from user interface to user experience. Sormaz has an extensive background in creative space, having led the development of The Daily for News Corp and being the Art Director for GameDaily, a multimillion dollar company online media company that was acquired by AOL.
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NEW YORK -- AdSafe Media, (www.adsafemedia.com), the rating standard for online media today appointed Scott Knoll as its new Chief Executive Officer. Knoll takes over management of the privately owned company during a time of rapid growth.
Knoll brings a solid combination of management experience, media sales, and technological savvy with a history of innovation to AdSafe Media.
AdSafe's co-founder Helene Monat, said, "AdSafe is at an important cross-road in its evolution and Scott joins at an exciting time to spearhead its next stage of rapid growth and expansion, especially into new products and digital platforms."
"AdSafe Media has a tremendous opportunity to innovate with technology that offers a unique and scalable approach to more effective advertising. It's an exciting time to join the company and help capitalize on the growth opportunities that exist," said Knoll.
"AdSafe is a company with tremendously knowledgeable and committed employees, with a unique culture and with many strong and exciting brands, agency, network and publisher partners. I am looking forward to helping AdSafe accelerate the recent trend of top brands choosing AdSafe's superior technology and solidifying AdSafe Media's position as the rating and verification standard in the online advertising industry," Knoll added.
Mr. Knoll most recently served as Founder and President of Aperture, a Datran Media company that provides audience targeting and measurement technology to blue chip brands, agencies and online publishers. Prior to joining Datran Media, Knoll, was CEO of BlackFoot, a digital advertising solutions company. He also spent 6 years as a senior executive at DoubleClick, directing the launch and development of the DoubleClick ad network in nine countries, including Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Taiwan, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and Korea.
Mr. Knoll also served as Managing Director of DoubleClick Asia Pacific and Vice President and General Manager of Global Marketer Solutions. Previously he co-founded and served as COO of Verified Person, and has held management roles at Time Warner Inc. and Andersen Consulting. Mr. Knoll holds an MBA degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University.
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Kent brings over 20 years of marketing and product management experience in both global corporations and early-stage companies. Kent is based in Silicon Valley, CA, helping Macheen to establish a presence and new business relationships there.
Most recently, Kent was the CEO of Sharegrove, a cloud-based communications start-up he co-founded, which was acquired by Facebook in 2010. Before that, he was Chief Marketing Officer of Laszlo Systems, a leading provider of open-source Web 2.0 developer tools, adopted worldwide in multiple markets—including consumer, enterprise, education and government.
Previously, at Microsoft, Kent led the definition and launch of a transformative new pay-TV delivery platform, widely adopted by tier-one carriers—including AT&T, BT and Deutsche Telekom—as well as a global ecosystem of device makers and content providers. And as Vice President of Marketing at iVAST, Kent helped drive the commercialization of the international MPEG-4 standard, now commonly used in the delivery of web-based media, from iTunes to YouTube.
Earlier, in executive roles in marketing and product management at Excite@Home, Verizon (formerly Bell Atlantic) and MCI Communications, Kent drove cradle-to-grave product lifecycles—and led the development of new global markets—enabled by several generations of broadband networks, devices and media.
Kent holds a BA from Harvard College and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
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Arjun Moorthy joins HubSpots this month and will responsible for the Product Management team at HubSpot as well as help drive the team's long term product roadmap and strategy. Before HubSpot, Arjun worked at SunGard Availability Services as VP Infrastructure, overseeing the expansion of the company's datacenter portfolio in North America. Prior to SunGard, Arjun was a Project Leader at The Boston Consulting Group, focusing primarily on strategy and operations cases for technology companies. Arjun worked at two startups earlier in his career -- General Manager at IMlogic (a startup acquired by Symantec), and before that, Program Manager at RealNetworks. Arjun holds an MBA from Stanford University and a B.S in Computer Engineering from University of Waterloo.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--Pano Logic, the leader in zero client desktop virtualization, today announced the appointment of industry veteran Dave Butler as the company's Vice President of Americas Sales. Butler will be responsible for sales, partner and field support throughout North and South America.
“We are excited to have a savvy and experienced industry veteran join our senior management team at Pano Logic,” said John Kish, CEO, Pano Logic. “Dave Butler’s experience in dramatically growing sales will play a valuable role in expanding Pano Logic’s footprint for the mutual success of our partners and their customers.”
Butler has more than 20 years of experience serving as an executive officer in both startups and public companies. Prior to Pano Logic, Butler served as VP of Sales at Aruba Networks where he was responsible for growing revenue from $0 to more than $100M in four years leading to a successful IPO. Similarly, Butler served at FORE Systems as VP International Sales, also growing sales from $0M to more than $100M in five years. Butler has also served as an officer or in other leadership positions with Network Systems, Inktomi (Yahoo!), Berkeley Networks, Seaside Software, and IBM Corporation.
“I have been impressed by Pano Logic’s ability to deliver on the promise of desktop virtualization by providing next-generation zero clients that do more with less,” said Dave Butler, Vice President of Americas Sales, Pano Logic. “I look forward to working with such an innovative leader, as we expand the company and drive desktop virtualization into the future.”
Butler earned his BS in Computer Sciences and Economics from Purdue University and his MS in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Virginia. He is the author of several refereed papers in networking and the Association for Computing Machinery has recognized his research.
About Pano Logic Zero Client Computing
Pano Logic is the leader in Zero Client Desktop Computing. Pano Logic's all-in-one hardware and software solution – Pano System - redefines the delivery and management of end user computing by radically centralizing desktop management. The Pano Logic zero client platform is a complete end-to-end solution purpose-built for desktop virtualization, simplifying the complexity and management of virtual desktops and slashing TCO by as much as 80 percent. The patent-pending Pano Direct technology eliminates the need for costly processing power at the endpoint, making it possible to have an endpoint device that contains NO processor, NO operating system, NO memory, NO drivers, NO firmware, NO software, NOR any moving parts, completely eliminating endpoint management and security breaches, while slashing energy consumption by 95 percent as compared to a PC. The Pano generation of computing, built for virtualization, can plug and play into 99 percent of all hypervisor infrastructures, including VMware, Microsoft HyperV and Citrix XenDesktop. To learn more, visit http://www.panologic.com
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New York, March 30, 2011 – SundaySky, a company that delivers automated product video production at mass scale and studio quality, today announced it has named James Dicso as the company’s president and chief revenue officer. Dicso brings to SundaySky extensive experience in growing revenue and building sales channels for companies offering software-as-a-service (SaaS), customer interaction and pay-for-performance solutions, as well as strong relationships with leading players in the e-commerce industry. In his new position, Dicso will drive the go-to-market strategy, sales execution, business development and revenue growth for SundaySky to support the growing market demand for the company’s solution.
“With our recent milestone of 10 million SundaySky videos online, it is clear that the market realizes the need for scalable video solutions across the board. The advent of automated video generation is already behind us, and companies like SundaySky are bringing it to the next level with scalable video,” said Shmulik Weller, CEO of SundaySky. “Jim’s enthusiastic and expert leadership will be essential as we help more companies around the world leverage video content to increase conversion rates and order size, improve brand awareness and SEO, and generate more revenue.”
In his most recent position, Dicso served as executive vice president at LivePerson, a SaaS-based provider of online engagement solutions that facilitate real-time assistance and expert advice. While there, Dicso built new business models to maximize growth potential and realized a revenue increase from $17 million to $96 million during his tenure. At LivePerson, as well as earlier in his career at Witness Systems and PTC, Dicso succeeded in improving sales effectiveness, developing strategic partnerships and leading development of compelling value propositions for customers.
“The automated online video market, led by SundaySky, is poised for extensive and rapid growth, thanks in large part to the ease with which businesses can now automatically create video to support even the deepest product catalogues,” said James Dicso, SundaySky president and chief revenue officer. “Video is now an essential element in attracting prospects online, and I look forward to working with our marketing and sales teams to develop new opportunities and programs with customers and partners worldwide.”
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Daversa Partners is pleased to announce Chandra Yeleshwarapu as Ariba’s new Director Solutions Management He will be responsible for Ariba Cloud Commerce solutions strategy, roadmap, and plan for the Procurement/Downstream solutions. Prior to Ariba, Chandra worked at Oracle for ten years in various positions. Most recently, he served as the Director of Supply Chain Management & Procurement where he was responsible for new product development and product management strategy. Prior to Ariba, he was a consultant with Tata Consultancy services in their Manufacturing and Process Industry Practice. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Pune University and an MS in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.
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Daversa Partners is pleased to announce the placement of Chris Haydon as Vice President Solutions- Downstream Solutions for Ariba.Chris joined Ariba from Quadrem where he was responsible for Quadrem’s solutions marketing strategy and product roadmap. Before joining Quadrem in 2000, Chris worked for Comalco Ltd in Australia bringing with him over eight years’ experience in procurement strategy, purchasing, logistics, strategic sourcing, content and business operations, from both a site and corporate level. Prior to his current role, he was Vice President – Marketplace Operations and oversaw product delivery, global customer support and implementation. Chris also represented Quadrem on the board of directors of the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (www.eccma.org) whose mission is to provide an open, transparent and efficient process for the development of open standards for content over the Internet. Chris has a degree in Business – Information Management from the Queensland University of Technology.
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CLIFTON PARK, NY, February 16, 2011 – Apprenda today announced Kerry Ancheta has joined the company as Vice President of Sales. Ancheta’s direct sales and marketing experience spans 15-years, including spending nearly a decade building MySQL, where he served as Vice President of Enterprise Sales for the Americas and helped build the company toward its successful acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2007.
Ancheta joins Apprenda as a decorated senior sales leader who has propelled multi-million dollar growth across key regions worldwide. At MySQL, Ancheta’s sales and marketing efforts helped catapult the startup organization from less than $1 million in sales revenues to being acquired for $1 billion by Sun Microsystems.
“I am thrilled to join Apprenda, a company that has demonstrated incredible success in serving the demands of businesses from ISVs to enterprises,” Ancheta said. “SaaSGrid has the ability to dramatically reduce development costs, while transforming the way companies deliver their software applications. I look forward to continuing to serve our existing customers and partners, and further communicating our benefits to a larger enterprise audience.”
Apprenda’s SaaSGrid is the leading application-server for software-as-a-service (SaaS). SaaSGrid is the modern abstraction layer for cloud applications, automating multi-tenancy and other critical SaaS architecture and business functionality, required for ISVs and enterprises to realize the revenue and efficiency gains made possible by the cloud.
Utilizing SaaSGrid has been shown to save companies millions in development costs, simplify enterprise IT management of applications and ensure that development teams can focus exclusively on the business’ core software.
About Apprenda
Apprenda is the creator of SaaSGrid, the industry’s leading Application Server for Software as a Service (SaaS). As a “new-breed” of cloud middleware, SaaSGrid solves the upfront and ongoing technical and business challenges of delivering software-as-a-service. By smashing significant technical hurdles like single instance multi-tenancy and grid scalability, while at the same time providing “out-of-the-box” application services like billing and subscriber management, application life-cycle management, and much more, SaaSGrid is helping companies achieve sustained market leadership through superior software delivery.
For more information visit Apprenda’s website at: http://www.apprenda.com.
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Burlington, Mass – January 13, 2011 – expressor software, the leading provider of free and affordable, enterprise-class data integration software, today announced that Alan DiPietro has joined the company as Vice President of Sales. Alan brings extensive sales and ecommerce experience in high-growth, free-to-paid and SaaS software sales environments to expressor software. He will be responsible for growing and leading expressor’s sales team and operations.
Mr. DiPietro will report to Bob Potter, expressor software’s co-founder and CEO.
"Alan is a proven executive sales leader with an impressive professional background in free-to-paid and SaaS sales environments," said Bob Potter. "His experience in managing high-transaction volume, closed loop sales operations will be a tremendous asset to expressor as we pursue our vision of making ETL available for everyone through free and affordable, enterprise-class data integration software."
Mr. DiPietro has more than 22 years of experience in software sales. Previously he was Vice President of Ecommerce Sales at LogMeIn (Nasdaq: LOGM), a leading provider of SaaS connectivity and support solutions. Alan spent more than six years with the company and was responsible for transacting the first sales through beta and launch. He also built out LogMeIn’s sales organization as VP of Sales with annual bookings growth from zero to 85 Million dollars.
Prior to LogMeIn, Alan was VP of Sales at FireStar Software, Inc., a venture backed start-up in the Object Oriented DB enterprise market. He also held senior positions as director in the mergers and acquisitions group of Interliant (INIT) (formerly Sage Networks) and director of sales and marketing at net.Genesis. He began his career with Western Union Easylink after receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Alfred University.
"I believe expressor is in a great place right now to be able to offer affordable, enterprise-class ETL software that is 80 percent-plus less expensive than mainstream solutions from traditional data integration vendors,” commented Mr. DiPietro. "I am excited to join an outstanding management team and look forward to help expressor realize its tremendous market potential with its differentiated, free-to-paid business strategy."
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Kristen Fergason joined ShareThis as Chief Marketing Officer in December of 2010 from Yahoo! where the lead Industry Outreach. She joined Yahoo! through its acquisition of Maven Networks. As the Vice President of Marketing at Maven Networks, Kristen was responsible for all marketing efforts including product marketing, public relations, brand vision, marketing strategy, and market development. Before Maven, she served as the Vice President of Marketing for Major League Baseball Advanced Media for six years leading strategy for marketing operations for CRM, ad serving and email marketing as well as for MLB brands and its other partner properties. Previously she worked for outpost.com
ShareThis is the largest market for sharing and influence across the web, reaching more than 400 million users across nearly 1 million sites. ShareThis makes content more engaging for publishers and marketing more impactful for brands by tapping into its true influence and value. Based in Palo Alto, CA, with offices in New York and Cincinnati, the company is privately held with funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Blue Chip Venture Company, DFJ Mercury, Illinois Ventures, Matthew Pritzker Company, Queen City Angels and RPM Ventures and Reservoir Partners.
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Burlington, MA (December 14, 2010) – Viridity Software, the leading provider of data center optimization and energy resource management solutions, today announced the appointment of Arun Oberoi to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately.
Arun Oberoi has consistently built rapid growth enterprises ranging from start-up businesses to mid-size to multi-billion dollar global organizations, including major brands such as HP OpenView and what is now IBM’s Netcool. Prior to Viridity, Oberoi served as CEO of Aveksa, a market-leading provider of enterprise access governance and management software, where he led the company to revenue growth of over 500%. Previously, he was EVP of Worldwide Sales and Services at Micromuse, an industry-growth leader in high-end network management and service assurance solutions. Micromuse was acquired by IBM for $865M, where Oberoi led the integration, its continued fast growth, and field expansion as Vice President within IBM Tivoli. Prior to Micromuse, Oberoi held various executive roles within HP. He was Vice President and General Manager, HP Worldwide Software Sales and Marketing; this portfolio included HP OpenView where he helped grow the business from early-stages to over $1B. Oberoi was also VP and GM of HP’s Worldwide Top 100 Corporate Accounts and Industries.
“Arun’s background combined with Viridity’s innovation and customer traction provides a great mix for accelerating leadership in this market,” said Jamie Goldstein, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners and member of Viridity’s Board of Directors. “We see a rapidly growing and compelling market opportunity in the data center optimization and energy management space.”
Sunil Dhaliwal, a General Partner with Battery Ventures and a member of Viridity’s Board of Directors stated, "Arun is a demonstrated leader with a history of building high-growth companies. We're thrilled to have someone of his talent and experience leading our team."
“I am excited about joining a very talented and fun team whose founding vision for the company solves the escalating problem of mapping the virtual information world to the physical realities of the data center. Attempting to optimize data center infrastructure for IT utilization, power, space, cooling and cost with the dynamically changing service demands is a spiraling problem,” said Oberoi. “This is a huge opportunity to create customer value and we look forward to making Viridity the trusted brand to solve these issues.”
Oberoi holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and a BA from Delhi University (India).
Oberoi succeeds former CEO, Bob Steinkrauss, who recently decided to leave citing health reasons.
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Redwood City, Calif., (December 8, 2010) — Turn Inc., the industry’s only end-to-end platform for managing data-driven digital advertising, today announced that Tim Mahlman, former Vice President of Network Sales at Yahoo!, has joined Turn as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Mahlman also served as US VP of Sales at 24/7 and SVP of Sales for 24/7, APAC.
“Tim brings fifteen years of digital marketing experience and expertise to Turn. I’ve been impressed with his ability to lead and adapt to a rapidly changing marketplace while operating digital media organizations in the US, Europe and Asia,” said Bill Demas, CEO and President at Turn. “Tim’s deep client focus and proven success in working with large scale agencies and Fortune 500 brands makes him an asset to Turn’s growing team.”
As CRO, Tim is responsible for developing strategic relationships across the industry to drive the adoption of Turn’s platform solutions. In his new role, Mahlman will lead Turn’s sales, business development and client services divisions globally, while serving current clients and working with them on innovative solutions that address industry challenges.
“I’ve been watching Turn for several years and continue to see the company innovate,” said Tim Mahlman, Chief Revenue Officer at Turn. “There’s a tremendous amount of potential for audience targeting that sits between remnant and premium inventory and I’m excited to find creative ways to bring it to Turn’s brand and agency customers worldwide.”
Mahlman joined Yahoo! through its acquisition of BlueLithium in 2007. During his tenure, Tim delivered on innovative audience buying strategies for Fortune 100 brands, which produced best in class efficiency for their marketing spend. He also guided Yahoo! in growing its non-guaranteed inventory by 3x, showing the strongest growth in recent company history. Prior to Yahoo!, Tim was Chief Operating Officer of Winstar Interactive, an online representation company and served as Director of Sales at CLIQNOW before they were acquired by 24/7 in 1998.
Mahlman holds a BA in Communications from San Diego State University and is based out of Turn’s Headquarters in Silicon Valley, California.
For more information, visit www.turn.com.
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Daversa Partners announces that Andrew Nibley will be joining Yieldex as their CEO. Andy was prior Chairman, Advertising/Creative, for Burson-Marsteller, which specializes in business-to-business and corporate image advertising for such clients as Coca-Cola, Accenture and the U.S. government. Prior to that, he was President and CEO of GetMusic and Rollingstone.com, a part of Vivendi Universal's U.S. based Internet and technology company. Prior to GetMusic, he co-founded Reuters NewMedia Inc. Under his leadership, Reuters became the number one provider of news on the Internet, serving over 225 Web sites globally that generated 14 million unique visitors a month. From 1989 to 1994, he was Editor for North and Latin America for Reuters America Inc. Earlier, he served as News Editor, Europe, Middle East and Africa, based in London; News Editor North America, based in New York; and News Editor Washington. Prior to that, he covered four U.S. presidents and worked at United Press International and the Washington Star as well as Reuters. Andy also sits on the Boards of Sportsline USA Inc.; Oddcast LLC; and Newstruck Media, Inc.
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Dustin Grosse comes to DocuSign with a strong technology background as a former sales and marketing general manager for Microsoft’s Field Readiness team and the Microsoft Office Unified Communications Group. Grosse joined Microsoft through its 2003 acquisition of PlaceWare Web Conferencing, an early SaaS solution pioneer where he was senior vice president of Marketing and Business Development and led the company to be one of Silicon Valley’s five fastest growing companies in 2002.
Grosse has held other executive sales and marketing positions with Voxeo, OnFiber and Covad Communications. Earlier in his career, he led strategy, sales and marketing consulting engagements with McKinsey & Company, and worked in brand management at Procter & Gamble. Grosse earned an MBA from Yale’s School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of California, Riverside.
DocuSign® is the global standard for eSignature. DocuSign helps customers accelerate transaction cycle times to increase speed to revenue, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction with the easiest, fastest, most secure global network for sending, signing, tracking, and storing documents in the cloud.
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San Francisco, Calif. – November 22, 2010 – Coverity, Inc., the software integrity leader, today announced Anthony Bettencourt as chief executive officer, president and chairman of the board. Seth Hallem, Coverity founder and CEO, will serve on the board of directors and as a strategy and technology advisor to Bettencourt and the company.
Anthony Bettencourt has over twenty-five years of experience building fast-growth, market leading technology companies. Prior to Coverity, Bettencourt served as the chief executive officer of Verity Inc., a leader in enterprise search, and led the company through its acquisition by Autonomy Corp. plc in 2005. After which, Bettencourt served successively as the CEO of Autonomy, Inc, CEO of Autonomy ZANTAZ and the CEO of Autonomy Interwoven through 2009.
Bettencourt currently serves as the non-executive chairman of the board of directors of Blinkx, Inc., an Internet video search engine and also serves on the board of directors of CrownPeak, NetBase Solutions, and Next Page.
"Coverity is leading the software integrity movement, delivering unprecedented visibility and clarity into the safety, security, and quality of the software that Global 2000 brands are shipping in their products," said Bettencourt, CEO and Chairman of Coverity. "I am honored to have Seth pass the torch to me and look forward to contributing to Coverity's continued growth, market momentum and the mission of improving the integrity of the software that runs our businesses and our lives."
"Anthony has the perfect mix of seasoned experience, spirit, and passion to lead Coverity and our people to the next stage of growth and success," said Seth Hallem, co-founder and former CEO of Coverity. "The last eight years of my life have been invested in building Coverity from scratch in the labs of Stanford to the recognized leader in software integrity, static analysis, and code testing. I thank all of the great Coverity people and each and every customer who invested in Coverity and our products, and look forward to seeing the company continue to grow and deliver on our software integrity vision."
In 2005, Bettencourt was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for Technology & Software, Northern California Region. Mr. Bettencourt earned a B.A. in English from Santa Clara University.
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Rosetta Stone Inc. (NYSE:RST), a leading provider of technology-based language-learning solutions, announced today that Stephen Swad will join the management team as chief financial officer effective November 9, 2010. Reporting directly to Tom Adams, the chief executive officer of Rosetta Stone, Swad, 49, will be responsible for Rosetta Stone's finance and investor relations functions. Swad, who has previously served as CFO at Comverse Technology, Fannie Mae and AOL, brings extensive experience in finance and the technology sector to his new role.
"We're delighted to have an executive of Steve's caliber join Rosetta Stone," said Tom Adams, CEO of Rosetta Stone. "He is a gifted CFO, with strong public-company experience - and he brings a business operations perspective to everything he does. Having been a CFO at a Fortune 500 high technology company, combined with his broad experience at complex, fast-paced environments, we are confident that Steve will contribute broadly to our financial operations and business strategy."
"I'm excited to join Rosetta Stone at this point in their evolution," Swad said. "The company addresses a global market sized at over $80 billion, offering the best available technology-based solutions for learning languages. Their latest advances are not only helping people learn through socialization, they are also strengthening the company's business model. I'm confident that this talented team of innovators has the skills and drive to capitalize on a tremendous opportunity to grow globally, extending the company's reach across markets and around the world. I look forward to partnering with Tom and the leadership team to create value for all of our stakeholders."
In September, the company introduced Rosetta Stone(R) Version 4 TOTALe(TM), the innovative language-learning solution that pairs trusted Rosetta Stone software with an entirely new online experience. This allows people to 'awaken' their natural ability to learn a new language. Version 4 TOTALe works through effective software and online activities that encourage customers to interact safely with native speakers and other learners, at their own level, to use their newly acquired skills.
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Enterprise cloud storage service provider Zetta announced today that it has appointed Ali Jenab as chief executive officer. An industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience, Jenab was the CEO and president of SourceForge. Prior to that, he was with VA Linux and played a key role in transforming the company from a Linux hardware server company into a software, services and media company that included SourceForge. Jenab also spent 17 years at Amdahl Corporation, rising to group president of Amdahl's Technology Division. Jeff Treuhaft, founding CEO, will remain a member of the board and focus on product strategy, as well as key customer and partner relationships.“We are very excited to welcome Ali to our team,” said Treuhaft. “His leadership qualities and broad track record as a world-class technology executive will enable us to continue to exceed expectations as we ramp up through our next phase of growth and beyond. “I am pleased to join a company that is changing the way enterprise data is being stored and protected,” said Ali Jenab. “Zetta is already seeing tremendous customer traction with its recently released Zetta Data Protect solution, and has signed its 100th customer in less than a year. I will be focused on helping the team accelerate this market momentum.”
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Steve Anderson is ClairMail's Chief Financial Officer, overseeing all aspects of the company's Finance processes and systems. Steve brings a record of success in financial management of venture-backed and publicly traded technology companies. Prior to joining ClairMail, Steve was CFO of Good Technology, where he managed all aspects of finance, accounting and administration for the venture-backed provider of mobile messaging and collaboration solutions. Before Good Technology, Steve was CFO of Trigo Technologies, a provider of product information management solutions. Previously, Steve was CFO of Capstan Systems and Navis, LLC, and held executive positions at Metricom, Inc. and Arthur Andersen.
Steve holds a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Daversa Partners has placed Peter Bouton as the VP of Software Development at Avid, who provide consumers with innovative digital audio and video solutions which continue to revolutionize the art of creative storytelling, and have earned them hundreds of awards, including 2 Oscar® statuettes, a Grammy®, and 12 Emmys®. Peter joined the company in October of 2010 and is in charge of driving product development to successful completion while working closely with Product Management. Prior to joining Avid, Peter was the VP of Engineering at Sonic Solutions. At Sonic Solutions Peter was Responsible for the development of web services and client-side applications running on Blu-ray players, connected TVs, mobile phones, PCs and other devices to enable the digital distribution of Hollywood and Independent content under the Best Buy and Blockbuster brands powered by Roxio CinemaNow.
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Lakhani is an experienced financial executive with a successful track record at public and private growth companies in the technology, media and telecommunications industries. He has served in various financial management roles for the past 26 years and, as part of oDesk's executive management team, will play a key role developing the company's growth strategy. Most recently, Lakhani was CFO of Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia. During his tenure as CFO at CTC Media, Lakhani led the company to a successful initial public offering (IPO).
"Our CFO position generated a lot of interest and we had the opportunity to meet with many impressive candidates," said Swart. "We quickly recognized that Nilesh was the right person for oDesk. He was the CFO at CTC Media while revenue tripled, and his success in scaling the international finance organization of a fast growing company will be important to oDesk in the coming years."
"After meeting with Gary and the rest of the team, I was highly impressed with the company's drive and sense of purpose to help people build successful online work relationships," said Lakhani. "oDesk has assembled a world-class team that is achieving remarkable results both for its users and as a business. I'm excited to join this effort, this industry and this company."
oDesk recently marked four consecutive years of annual growth in excess of 100 percent, and has generated over $170 million in online work performed.
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Throughout his career, Benecick has made significant contributions as both a sales leader and executive. Before joining Enservio, Benecick served as the Vice President of Sales for Insurance National Accounts at The Hertz Corporation, where among his other duties, he developed supplier relationships with nearly 200 of the largest auto insurance companies in the United States. Prior to his work at The Hertz Corporation, Benecick worked as a regional manager for Property Damage Appraisers, Inc. Additionally, Benecick spent several years as a senior claim representative with Progressive Insurance.
"We're very excited to welcome Chris to the Enservio team," said Jon McNeill, CEO of Enservio. "Benecick has demonstrated his leadership and generated substantial results throughout his career. He brings a wealth of knowledge of the insurance industry and the inner workings of high functioning sales teams. We're certain his contributions will be felt immediately and that he will be a great asset to Enservio."
About Enservio
Enservio, the contents company, provides web-based software and services to commercial and residential property insurance carriers and their insureds. We are the market leader in contents inventory creation and valuation, working with 11 of the top 15 carriers. Enservio is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, with offices and professional staff across the United States. For additional information, please visit the company's web site www.enservio.com or call 888.567.7557.
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Whitney commented that, "Blair brings an exceptional background and track record to Moontoast. His proven ability to successfully lead teams in innovative ventures will enhance our current operations and guide Moontoast to becoming the leader in the social commerce market. He brings with him considerable experience from both Fortune 100 companies and entrepreneurial startups. Blair's unique skill set in sales, e-commerce and affiliate marketing make him a great asset to the Moontoast team."
Heavey brings over twenty years of senior management and leadership experience in startup environments. He is a veteran Internet executive with proven expertise in creating new businesses, implementing initiatives, and driving execution in companies. His tenure as Director of Sales at Open Market and Executive Vice President at Be Free demonstrated a strong executive leadership record with a proven ability to build high impact sales and marketing teams.
Heavey's past experience also includes: President and CEO of MyPerfectGig; Entrepreneur-in-Residence at North Bridge Venture Partners; and CEO of DirectoryM. He received his BA in Computer Science and Political Science from Boston College and earned his MBA from Babson College. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at Mall Networks, a leading provider of merchant-funded loyalty shopping solutions, as well as the advisory boards of two additional startups.
"Moontoast is providing solutions in an exciting multi-billion dollar market opportunity. It is carving out the 'rules of success' for brands to leverage social media to drive significant revenue streams." Heavey stated, "The team that Marcus and Stephen Collins built is well on its way to driving a unique and differentiated social commerce platform that brands will eagerly engage with to increase revenues. I'm excited to be part of the Moontoast team."
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Recognized Industry Leader to Drive Continued Innovation and Growth in the Semantic Advertising Space
New York (April 9, 2010) - Peer39 today announced it has named Andy Ellenthal as chief executive officer. Ellenthal will lead the online semantic advertising company's efforts to accelerate business growth and further innovate the online advertising space. In addition, Peer39 Founder Amiad Solomon will be named President of the Company and will concentrate his efforts on business development, product innovation and strategic initiatives.
Semantic advertising increases the value of online content by understanding meaning and sentiment, and matches the most relevant ad to the page. Using Peer39's patented algorithms, publishers, ad exchanges, and buying platforms can classify the true meaning of written language at lightning speed. Peer39 now helps semantically target thousands of ads every second.
"Peer39 is widely recognized as the inventor and market leader in semantic advertising. We're delighted that Andy's vast experience, coupled with his success scaling innovative advertising technology companies, will accelerate Peer39's ascension as the industry standard," said Solomon. "Andy has a track record of scaling companies in the online advertising space and will be a tremendous asset as we achieve the next level of market dominance for Peer39."
Ellenthal brings a combination of media sales, technological savvy and creativity to Peer39. He previously served as the CEO of quadrantONE, a joint venture of four major media companies focused on selling online advertising. Ellenthal has also held positions such as SVP of Sales at PointRoll, the leading provider of rich media marketing services, and a number of senior sales management roles at DoubleClick, the largest internet's ad serving company.
"Peer39 has a tremendous opportunity to innovate the industry through the use of semantics. It's an exciting time to join the Company and help capitalize on the growing online market," said Ellenthal. "The online advertising space has just begun to see the positive advantages of implementing semantics into an online strategy and I look forward to driving the Company and further setting a Peer39 as the semantic targeting standard in the industry."
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As Chief Marketing Officer, Azita has global responsibility for all aspects of marketing across Moxie Software’s Social Enterprise Software, as well as the thought leadership services provided by nGenera Insight. Prior to joining Moxie Software, Azita was Vice President of Marketing for LiveOps, a privately held company with revenue exceeding $120M, where she dramatically increased the company’s brand awareness and pipeline. Azita was a key member of the executive team that helped LiveOps achieve double digit revenue growth during the 2008-2009 economic downturn.
Prior to joining LiveOps, Azita held various executive and management positions at Salesforce.com, TuVox, Siebel Systems and SGI. Azita holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA from the University of Southern California
Prior to joining LiveOps, Azita held various executive and management positions at Salesforce.com, TuVox, Siebel Systems and SGI. Azita holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA from the University of Southern California
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Reitz previously served as Vice President of Sales at Rackable during its growth from $20 million to over $300 million in annual revenue, and more recently served as Vice President of Internet & Cloud Computing Sales at SGI. At Rackable, Reitz helped develop, launch and lead a sales strategy that produced more than 100 percent revenue growth year-over-year for six consecutive years.
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DocuSign®, the industry leading provider of on-demand electronic signature solutions, announced that Mike Dinsdale has been appointed chief financial officer of DocuSign. Dinsdale brings a wealth of financial and strategic experience and will fill a key role in helping drive DocuSign's explosive growth in the eSignature market.
"I am excited to join DocuSign at this pivotal growth stage and work with this dynamic team in leading the eSignature revolution," said Dinsdale. "I am impressed with the phenomenal impact the DocuSign eSignature platform has on its customers and its ability to increase productivity, streamline business processes and reduce costs."
Dinsdale comes to DocuSign with a proven track record of driving organizations to hyper growth. Most recently, Dinsdale served as CFO of Lithium, a SaaS platform and application suite provider, hosting some of the worlds' largest and most successful brand affinity and support communities. In addition to setting Lithium's financial strategy and managing the operations of finance, HR, corporate development, legal and business development, Dinsdale was also responsible for raising millions in equity financial over three rounds and two strategic acquisitions, including the acquisition of Scout Labs. During his tenure, Lithium's valuation increased dramatically, positioning the company as the clear leader in Social CRM.
Prior to Lithium, Dinsdale joined Velocity11, a life sciences technology company, where as employee #10, he was instrumental in setting business strategy and aggressively driving revenue growth to $50 million. As CFO, Dinsdale managed operations in North America and Europe, distribution in Asia and numerous functional areas. Dinsdale further fueled company growth by increasing revenues, securing funding and playing a key role during the firm's acquisition by Agilent Technologies in 2007.
Dinsdale acquired a B.E.Sc in mechanical engineering from the University of Western Ontario, an MBA from McMaster University and holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
DocuSign® is the global standard for eSignature. DocuSign helps customers accelerate transaction cycle times to increase speed to revenue, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction with the easiest, fastest, most secure global network for sending, signing, tracking, and storing documents in the cloud.
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Soderlund to head Sales and Business Development
BURLINGTON, Mass. — May 10, 2010 — Certeon, the leading provider of virtualized WAN optimization and application acceleration, today announced that Karl Soderlund has joined the Company as its senior vice president responsible for Certeon's worldwide sales and business development organizations. Soderlund brings more than 15 years of experience in building and managing highly successful sales and business development organizations in the networking industry.
Prior to coming to Certeon, Soderlund was the vice president and general manager for sales and marketing in the Americas of Hewlett-Packard's ProCurve business. He also was the senior vice president of American sales and global alliances at Fortinet, a computer and network security firm where he was instrumental in driving its successful IPO. Soderlund also has held senior management positions with Extreme Networks and Cisco Systems, where his leadership drove substantial growth in both companies.
"Certeon is seeing a tremendous growth in its global channels as well as strong direct interest from large enterprise customers," stated Peter Dougherty, Certeon's president and CEO. "Karl Soderlund brings in-depth network industry sales and business development experience to help us take our company to a whole new level of sales efficiency."
Certeon has multiple worldwide channel partners and recently announced a partnership with ANXebusiness. Certeon also recently announced major enterprise wins with Medina Consultants and with Boots & Coots, which was recently acquired by Halliburton.
Certeon's aCelera software products are the perfect union of virtualization, WAN optimization and application acceleration technologies, providing enterprises and hosting providers with performance, scalability and ease of management. aCelera is hypervisor-agnostic and delivers performance benefits to mission-critical applications and business continuity environments, improving network bandwidth optimization and performance by up to 95 percent. When compared to proprietary hardware appliances, aCelera software saves IT departments up to 60 percent in network optimization capital and operation costs.
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Seasoned CEO Brings Extensive Operational, Sales and Technology Expertise; Crossbeam Poised For Next Stage of Growth as Network Security Leader
BOXBOROUGH, Mass. - March 9, 2010 - Crossbeam Systems, Inc., the leading provider of next-generation security platforms for high-performance networks, today announced the appointment of Michael Ruffolo as president and chief executive officer (CEO).
"Mike's broad executive leadership background, as well as his deep security and software experience, make him an excellent fit to lead Crossbeam," said Arthur W. Coviello, Jr., president, RSA Security Division of EMC, and lead independent director of Crossbeam's Board of Directors. "His proven track record at market-leading technology companies and his strong leadership skills will accelerate Crossbeam's growth and success."
Ruffolo brings more than 25 years of experience in global sales and marketing, professional services, operations and information technology management. Prior to Crossbeam, he was chairman, CEO and president of Liquid Machines, a pioneer and leader in the Enterprise Rights Management market. He previously served as chief operating officer of Akamai Technologies, where he drove double-digit revenue growth while dramatically improving financial and operating results. Prior to Akamai, he was the executive vice president of global sales, services and marketing at EMC Corporation, where he drove over $8.5 billion in revenue. Ruffolo also served as president of Document Solutions Group at Xerox Corporation and vice president and chief information officer at NCR Corporation. Ruffolo has been an independent director on both public and private company boards and currently serves on the Board of Directors at Internap Network Services in Atlanta.
"Crossbeam holds a unique, market-leading position as an open platform for best-in-class, third-party network security solutions. More importantly, Crossbeam has an impressive customer list that includes a large base of blue-chip enterprises and 10 of the top 11 telecommunications providers in the world—compelling evidence of customers' confidence in the company's products and technology," said Ruffolo. "The company is well-positioned for its next phase of growth as the network security leader. I look forward to working with the entire Crossbeam team."
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Prior to VeriSign, Mark was President and CEO of MarkMonitor, Inc., a San Francisco-based global corporate domain registration and online fraud protection services organization. Under Mark's leadership, MarkMonitor grew a customer base of almost 200 Fortune 500 companies (46 in the Fortune 100), raised two rounds of equity capital, and grew revenues from $1.5 to $30 million in just over 3 years.
Before MarkMonitor, Mark was President and CEO of Digex, Inc. where, during his tenure, revenues grew from $22M to $214M in just over 3 years, Digex completed a successful $200M IPO in August 1999, a $100M investment by Microsoft and Compaq in November 1999 and a $1.2 billion secondary offering (for majority owner) in January 2000. Mark also navigated an extremely complex $6 billion sale of majority ownership in Digex to WorldCom late in 2000 and completed the transition to WorldCom in mid-2002. Early in his career, Mark held senior positions/consultancies with Cable & Wireless in the U.K., BBN Corporation and EDS. Mark also recieved a Bachelor of Arts in Economics (Summa Cum Laude) from Princeton University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Stanford Law School.
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Prior to Open Solutions, Clewley spent seven years as SVP of sales and account management at P&H Solutions, Inc., the leading provider of Web-based corporate cash management solutions. Prior to P&H Solutions Clewley served as vice president of sales at BancWare, a Sungard Company, beginning with responsibilities for North America, and building a successful combination of direct sales efforts and reseller relationships in South America and the Asia/Pacific region. Clewley also served as director of sales for Leading Market Technologies where he also managed their New York and London offices.
Clewley graduated with a BA from the University of Vermont.
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"The ecommerce marketplace is on the verge of a renaissance as rigid legacy commerce platforms are proving inadequate for retailers looking to continuously be at the forefront of the consumer online experience," said Ebling. "Demandware has demonstrated a much more rapid rate of growth than the largest players in the industry over the past year with customer wins for its platform. And as more retailers seek out solutions to power their next-generation initiatives, I'm thrilled to join the company that is leading the way with a truly on-demand ecommerce platform that meets the needs of innovative retailers."
Ebling's retail technology experience includes serving as chief executive officer of ProfitLogic, the industry leader in merchandising optimization solutions, which he led to successful acquisition by Oracle in 2005. Previously, Ebling acted as CEO of Torrent Systems, a data warehousing and analytics software provider acquired by Ascential Software in 2001. Ebling also spent 18 years of his career helping to grow Marcam Solutions from a startup to $200 million in revenues and a successful IPO. Most recently, Ebling served as CEO of Lattice Engines, a startup offering sales and optimization solutions to large sales organizations.
"Tom's operational excellence in the retail software sector will enable him to focus on scaling Demandware right out of the gate," said Stephan Schambach, founder and chairman of Demandware. "Speaking for Demandware's Board of Directors, I have every confidence that Tom's leadership and experience, coupled with a track record of taking startups through successful exits, will propel Demandware's vision into the new decade."
Ebling earned his bachelors degree in mathematics from Williams College, where he graduated magna cum laude. He also attended Harvard Law School, and holds a patent for inventions in software related to Process Manufacturing at Marcam Corporation. Ebling serves as director on the board of VFA (www.vfa.com), and as chairman of the board of directors for International Development Enterprises (www.ideorg.org). He lives in the Boston area with his wife and their two children.
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Prior to Merced Systems, Goldberg was CEO of Zend Technologies, the leading open source company behind PHP. Goldberg came to Zend from BMC software were he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Corporate Strategy for BMC Software. Goldberg joined BMC as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Business Strategy for Remedy, where he played a key role in BMC's acquisitions of Magic Solutions, Marimba and Viadyne - and in Remedy's acquisition by BMC. Prior to Remedy, Goldberg held a number of senior sales and marketing positions at Siemens, Ring Medical and Sudbury Systems inc.
Goldberg received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration, Marketing and Political Sciences from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, and a Master of Arts in International Political Economics from New York University in New York City.
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DocuSign®, the industry leading provider of on-demand electronic signature solutions, today appointed Keith Krach, founder and former CEO of Ariba (NASDAQ: ARBA), as chairman of its board of directors. In addition, Steven R. King, former E*TRADE executive (NASDAQ: ETFC) and SaaS industry veteran, was named president and CEO. The move was initiated as the company scales to meet broad market adoption of its e-signature services. Krach and King join DocuSign during a period of explosive growth, with paid transactions increasing more than 300 percent in 2009 over the prior year.
Krach, a well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur, joins DocuSign with an impressive success record, including building and steering three companies to global leadership. In 1996, Krach co-founded Ariba, served as CEO and chairman for six years while taking the company public and building it into one of the fastest growing software companies in history. In 2000, he was honored by Ernst & Young as National Entrepreneur of the Year, and received the Technology Pioneer Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Today, Krach serves as the CEO of the investment holding company 3Points, Inc.
"I am very impressed with the immediate financial and business process impact DocuSign has on its customers, the fantastic growth it is experiencing, and its tremendous customer base," said Krach. "The business results in 2009 were incredible. I am excited to be part of DocuSign and looking forward to working with Steve King and the DocuSign management team."
As president and CEO, King brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in information technology. Most recently, King led venture-backed Virtela and ZANTAZ as president and CEO. Under his seven-year leadership, ZANTAZ grew to become the recognized market leader in SaaS email archiving, and was acquired in 2007 by The Autonomy Group. Prior to these positions, King held a number of executive positions at E*TRADE Group Inc., where he played a key role in growing the company from under $100 million to more than $1.5 billion in revenues. He ultimately became CEO of E*OFFERING, the pioneering online investment bank of E*TRADE, acquired by Wit SoundView Group. Previously, King held senior management positions at the Thomson Reuters Corporation (NYSE: TRI) and Ziff-Davis. In 2006, he received the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
"DocuSign is clearly leading the e-signature revolution with its vast service offerings, number of users and market share," said King. "Matt Schiltz and Tom Gonser have done an exceptional job growing the company to this pivotal stage, and I'm excited to work with this dynamic team."
Matthew J. Schiltz will assume executive responsibilities for strategic business development. This is a role Schiltz held in conjunction with his responsibilities as CEO and president of DocuSign for the past three years. DocuSign experienced phenomenal growth under Schiltz's leadership and is well-positioned to maintain dominance in the market.
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Brian joined Watchfire in 2002, and successfully achieved significant sales and channel growth. This growth led to the company's international expansion where Brian spearheaded the establishment of Watchfire's EMEA headquarters in Ireland, as well as subsidiaries in both Singapore and Japan to meet the demand for Watchfire's AppScan product in Asia-Pacific.
Prior to joining Watchfire, Brian was vice president of eastern sales for eCredit where during his tenure his team grew its revenues by more than 500 percent. Brian has also held senior positions including regional sales director for Epicor Software. Brian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from Plymouth State College.
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"Todd has a successful track record of defining and delivering complex IT and telecommunications software products to global markets," said Kent Sander, Chairman of Mformation's board of directors. "His industry experience, leadership, and proven ability to manage and deliver global solutions will be invaluable to Mformation as the company continues building on relationships with mobile operator and enterprise customers and further consolidates its leadership position in the global mobile device management industry."
"Mobile data revenues are accelerating around the globe as operators continue to leverage the data capabilities of next-generation mobile networks and exciting new mobile devices, making the need for advanced mobile device management extremely strong," said DeLaughter. "I was attracted to Mformation because they are the clear global leaders in this rapidly expanding marketplace. I look forward to playing a key role in the company's continued global growth and success."
Todd comes to Mformation with a proven track record of defining and delivering complex software products worldwide for the IT and telecommunications industries. He was most recently president and CEO of Opalis Software, an independent IT Process Automation company. His career also includes over 20 years at HP and Compaq in a wide range of executive, engineering, marketing and product management roles in North America and Europe, including leading HP's OpenView Business Unit.
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"As a proven executive who has been at the helm of three IPOs and driven two successful acquisitions, Shawn's leadership and pedigree is exactly what Zuora needs to capitalize on the subscription management market's multi-billion dollar potential," said Tien Tzuo, CEO, Zuora.
Prior to joining Zuora's team, several leading venture capital firms sought after Price to assist with strategy development ranging from operations and finance to M&A. His engagements included Clairmail, the leader in mobile banking, Provade, the leader in outsourced SaaS contract labor management, and many more.
As CEO, President and Chairman of the Board of Savvion, the global leader in business process management, Price was responsible for all strategic and operational functions of the company. Under Price's direction, Savvion grew in excess of 100% quarter over quarter, secured 300 of the Global 1000, launched the company's international operations with operating subsidiaries in India, and was recipient of the Deloitte Fast 50 Award.
Before Savvion, Price was Senior Vice President and General Manager Americas at Vitria where he oversaw 75 percent of revenues since the company's founding. Price led the most successful IPO of 1999, grew the company revenues from zero to $135 million and created Vitria's breakout Telecom strategy that resulted in a $10 billion market cap.
In broader circles, Shawn is known as the winner of the 2002 Baja 1000, the 2005 Rolex 24-Hours at Daytona International Sports Car Race and the Top Rider from the Americas to complete the world-famous Paris-Dakar Rally on a motorcycle, riding over 7,000 miles in the grueling African desert in only 19 days.
"Shawn's success and aggressively diverse background is matched only by his drive to take Zuora to the next level," said Peter Fenton, Partner, Benchmark Capital and Zuora board member. "If past achievement is any measure of future deeds, Zuora is on a steep trajectory towards owning the subscription billing market."
"The Subscription Economy is a market-driven phenomenon as evidenced by the success of Zuora's customer base—people want to purchase goods and services via subscription," said Price. "We're disrupting a multi-billion dollar industry and have delivered on our vision with a set of world-class products to manage billing and revenue operations and deliver pricing flexibility as a competitive advantage."
Zuora customers include Reed Business Information, InsideView, Marketo, Ricoh, Box.net and Sun Microsystems.
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"I am pleased to welcome Kurt to the WorkLight executive team, as we continue to expand our operations worldwide," said Shahar Kaminitz, CEO of WorkLight. "In his newly created role, Kurt will be instrumental in defining and driving our business strategy and operations. I have great confidence in Kurt as a seasoned business executive, creative thinker and strong leader."
Mr. Daniel joins WorkLight from Parallels, a fast-growing virtualization and automation software company, where he was a Senior Vice President in charge of the Online Business Unit as well as worldwide marketing, business development and corporate development. Over several years, he played a critical role in leading the company to 1.5 million customers and clear market leadership positions in server control panels, desktop virtualization and operating system containers.
Previously, Mr. Daniel spent several years at Microsoft, the world's largest software company. There he led strategy, product management and business management teams for the highly profitable SQL Server Business Unit as it quickly crossed the $1 billion milestone.
"I am excited to join WorkLight at this stage in the company's evolution and to build from its strong product foundation and customer momentum," said Mr. Daniel. "WorkLight has a significant opportunity in Web 2.0-based lightweight applications for web, desktop and mobile, and I look forward to working with Shahar and the rest of the team to accelerate our market position."
About WorkLight
WorkLight is a recognized leader in secure Web 2.0 widgets for business, enabling businesses to reach their customers, employees and partners in the places they frequent. The WorkLight Application Platform is used to efficiently develop and syndicate lightweight applications or widgets through personalized homepages, mobile devices, desktops, social networks, blogs, RSS feeds and other channels. WorkLight was recently named a "Cool Vendor" by Gartner for 2009, one of InformationWeek's "Startup 50" and one of the "10 Startups to Watch in 2009" by Network World magazine. For more, please visit www.myworklight.com.
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Damballa's unique approach finds previously unidentified threats used in the escalating wave of cybercrime, then closes the hidden two-way communications channels that cybercriminals use to manipulate compromised corporate systems. These attacks are silent, stealthy and the weapon of choice for online attacks, fraud and abuse. "These threats infiltrate even the best protected enterprise networks and turn corporate assets into contributors for criminal activity. That's why senior executives increasingly see a proactive defense as a critical part of their fiduciary responsibility," says Val Rahmani, Damballa's new CEO. "I am very excited by Damballa's vision and our unmatched ability to find and stop these threats."
Rahmani brings over 25 years of customer-driven business and technical leadership to Damballa. Most recently, she served as General Manager of IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division. Prior to ISS, Rahmani directed several multi-billion dollar hardware, software and services businesses. As CEO, Rahmani plans to significantly grow Damballa's customer base, extend the company's reach into new markets, and accelerate research and product development. The company is already moving aggressively to hire top-tier talent to complement its current staff.
Damballa's new round of investment was led by Palomar Ventures. Current investors InterWest Partners, Noro-Mosely Ventures and Sigma Partners all participated in this round. Jim Gauer, Managing Director at Palomar and veteran IT venture capital fund manager has joined Damballa's board, as has Fran Dramis, formerly Senior Vice President and CIO at Bellsouth. Mr. Dramis currently serves on multiple public and private boards.
Industry experts have welcomed Damballa's news. "The threat has evolved, and with few exceptions the security industry has not," says Joshua Corman, Research Director for Security at The 451 Group, a leading technology analyst organization. "While the majority of time and money is spent on static compliance checklists, dynamic adversaries have expanded from ego-driven vandals to profit- and politically-driven Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). Stealthy, sophisticated malware masterfully exploits the blind spots of legacy security - leaving enterprises exposed to loss and unwitting participation in deplorable forms of criminal and state-sponsored campaigns. We're pleased to see Damballa focused on modern, under-addressed threats."
Fran Dramis, industry veteran and new Damballa board member, comments that, "Damballa has a unique - and uniquely effective - product that keeps corporate assets from being used for criminal activity. It's this ability to both protect and integrate seamlessly with other solutions that's so interesting, and why Damballa presents a great growth opportunity to build a next-generation computer security company."
"This investment is a huge vote of confidence in our people and in our technology," says Rahmani. "We now have both the ability and the resources to deliver what's fundamentally missing in network security - the ability to stop even the most sophisticated cybercriminal threats."
About Damballa, Inc.
Damballa closes enterprise security gaps by rapidly identifying and disrupting the open communications channels that online criminals use to infiltrate enterprise networks. These products and services integrate easily with existing security investments for accurate, cost-effective protection against hidden breaches that evade other solutions. Damballa stops these breaches through high-fidelity detection, powerful mitigation guidance for botnet malware, and simple passive integration with existing network and security infrastructure. The result is a smarter, more flexible security solution that responds to a wider range of current and future online threats. Damballa is privately held and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Glenn Cross assumes the post of senior vice president of worldwide sales, service and support for Meru Networks and is responsible for leading the worldwide sales and service strategy as well as driving overall revenue growth. Over the course of 25 years, Cross has lead the sales initiatives for companies like Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Palm and Lotus/ IBM, during high-growth periods for the organizations. Most recently Cross was senior vice president of global sales for Secure Computing, which was acquired by McAfee in 2008. At Secure Computing, Cross managed the global sales force and revamped the field marketing operations and go-to market strategies to increase company revenue. Prior to Secure Computing, Cross held the position of executive vice president for global sales at SurfControl (later acquired by WebSense), senior vice president of worldwide sales for Nuance Communications, acquired by ScanSoft in 2005, and senior vice president of ActivCard, Inc.
"Appalaraju and Cross bring a depth of industry expertise and diverse experience in different technology segments and across various company sizes, both private and public, to Meru," said Ihab Abu-Hakima, chief executive officer, Meru Networks. "With a proven track record in building brand awareness and accelerating revenue growth, we're excited to welcome them to the management team and look forward to their contributions in elevating Meru as the leader in enterprise wireless networking solutions."
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"Keith Peterson has a long history of leading and growing enterprise sales teams, evidenced by his stellar success at SAP" said Dan Carmel, CEO of SpringCM. "We are confident that Keith's deep experience with enterprise software and his strong belief in the SaaS model will help increase penetration of the SpringCM platform into commercial and government organizations looking to solve content management challenges rapidly and cost effectively."
New Sr. VP of Sales Brings History of Success
Keith Peterson comes to SpringCM from SAP, one of the largest enterprise software companies in the world, where he spent almost 15 years in two critical phases of his career. He began as a sales representative for the company and grew to run SAP's North American Sales for all mid-market companies, where he was responsible for over $500 million in revenue and more than 500 sales, sales engineering and PS staff. Keith then left SAP to join TopTier, an early-stage software company where he drove sales from $10 million to $40 million in two years culminating in the successful acquisition by SAP, and the creation of the NetWeaver product.
Keith has a reputation for results, sales leadership and global experience with development, planning and execution of product introductions, as well as partner and vertical industry expansion. This experience, coupled with his extensive personal interaction with Fortune 500 companies, provides a perfect fit for expanding sales of the SpringCM platform.
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Giunta was previously president and CEO of Managed Objects, a business service management software provider that was acquired by Novell in November of 2008. During her nearly 10 years at Managed Objects, Giunta led the company's growth from a pre-revenue startup to a global company with more than 300 enterprise customers. Following the acquisition, Giunta held a strategic leadership role within Novell to define key partnerships, mergers and acquisitions and corporate strategy.
"I'm excited to join the talented Fortisphere management team. I was instantly impressed with the company's level of customer support and look forward to accelerating our growth in the virtualization industry," said Giunta. "Heightened demand for multi-hypervisor environments, better service and greater ROI from virtualization has created a market opportunity that Fortisphere Virtual EssentialsTM Service ManagerTM is ideally suited to address. I'm eager to help our expanding customer base maximize the returns from their virtualization investment and ease their transition to cloud computing."
Prior to Managed Objects, Giunta served as senior vice president of CA's OS/390 product line, a business unit of more than 500 employees. Under her direction, the division's new license revenue grew from two to 16 percent.
"We are thrilled that Siki has taken the reins of the company, bringing her impressive track record in the enterprise software market to bear on the second, much larger, wave of virtualization," said Paul Ciriello, managing partner, Fairhaven Capital Partners. "With Siki's valuable insight, strong customer focus and service management experience, she is well positioned to lead Fortisphere as the company meets the virtualization market's immediate and long-term need for improved service management solutions," said Dave Fachetti, managing director, Globespan Capital Partners.
Fortisphere's patent-pending, cross-platform solutions go beyond traditional maintenance tasks to define and manage service delivery for virtual data centers. Committed to virtual data center heterogeneity, the company offers solutions that scale to support complex diverse environments. Organizations rely on Fortisphere Virtual Service Management solutions to lower administration costs, maximize value and improve service from their virtualized environments.
About Fortisphere
Fortisphere is a Virtual Service Management software company. We arm our customers with the management solutions they need to confidently exploit virtualization to the delight of business users. Our flagship product, Virtual EssentialsTM Service ManagerTM, enables administrators, application owners and IT executives to inventory, visualize and manage virtualized resources from an intuitive, role-based console. As a result, they are able to lower IT costs, improve service, and get the best possible value from their multi-platform virtualized environments, a critical step in the evolution to cloud computing.
Fortisphere is a privately-held company, headquartered in Chantilly, VA. More information about Fortisphere can be found at www.fortisphere.com.
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Austin, 46, was most recently CEO and president of MarketLive, a leading provider of eCommerce platform solutions, where he created a scalable business strategy, assembled a world-class executive team and led a successful $20 million series E capital raise. He was previously president of worldwide marketing and sales at Good Technology, a provider of mobile computing solutions, where he spearheaded the company's rapid growth from 10,000 to over 500,000 subscribers and facilitated its acquisition by Motorola in January 2007. Austin has also served as president of EMEA and executive vice president for Manugistics, a market leading provider of enterprise software. He started his career at Accenture, where he ultimately led an $80 million consulting practice as a lead partner.
"Terry Austin is an exceptional choice to lead the company as we grow our position in the industry," said Tom Miltonberger, founder, Guardian Analytics. "With his long history of running multi-national organizations at various stages of growth, Terry knows how to effectively manage and scale operations. With the company in capable hands, I'm looking forward to focusing my attention more fully on the development of our flagship product, FraudMAP(R)."
"Since launching 18 months ago, Guardian Analytics has established itself as a visionary fraud prevention company with a solid market and product foundation," said Terry Austin, CEO, Guardian Analytics. "FraudMAP provides an incredibly strong value proposition via fraud loss prevention, risk management, and streamlined fraud operations that has resulted in an impressive list of customers. I look forward to working with the Guardian Analytics team to guide the company to the next level."
Irfan Salim, president and chief executive of MarkMonitor and well-known security industry veteran, has been appointed to the board of directors, effective immediately. Salim has more than 20 years of experience in growing and leading world-class Internet security, fraud prevention and domain registrar companies. Prior to MarkMonitor, Salim was president and chief operating officer of Internet security company Zone Labs, which was acquired by Check Point Technologies. Earlier, he was president and chief executive of NameSecure.com. Salim has also held positions as president of U.S. and European operations at TrendMicro; president and chief executive at Software Publishing Corporation; and vice president and general manager of the Spreadsheet Division at Lotus Development.
About Guardian Analytics
Headquartered in Los Altos, Calif., Guardian Analytics is focused on the prevention of online account fraud. The company's real-time risk management approach to fraud detection, forensics and risk monitoring is built on strong analytics and predictive models of individual behavior. Leading financial services institutions rely on Guardian Analytics to protect individual account assets and the integrity of their online channels. Founded in 2005, Guardian Analytics is privately held with venture funding from Foundation Capital. For more information, please visit www.guardiananalytics.com.
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Doucot brings more than 20 years of experience in sales and operational leadership to the Kalido executive team. He most recently served as senior vice president & managing director, Americas Operations at IDS Scheer, a leading provider of business process management software. During his tenure, Doucot grew software license sales and expanded systems integrator support to achieve dominance in the Americas market. Doucot served as vice president and general manager, Sales and Channels at Sybase, where he delivered record results across multiple product lines. Before Sybase, Doucot spent 15 years with HP where he held numerous sales, management and executive positions, including assignments in OEM sales, strategic alliances and services.
Doucot graduated from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and completed The General Manager ProgramTM, an executive education course, at Harvard Business School.
Bill Hewitt, president and CEO, Kalido, said:
"Charlie is a world-class executive with a broad range of experience, and I'm delighted to welcome him to the team. His ability to work closely with our customers and partners to maximize business value through our solutions will be a key factor in Kalido's expansion. The executive team and board of directors have every confidence that Charlie will provide the leadership necessary to fully capitalize on Kalido's opportunities."
Charles Doucot, vice president, Worldwide Sales, Kalido, said:
"Kalido's success with world-class customers in numerous industries demonstrates that a governed information management platform improves business performance. The company has raised the bar on data governance. I look forward to applying my experience in global sales, alliances and services to accelerate Kalido's revenue growth and increase market share."
About Kalido
Kalido delivers industry leading solutions for turning bad data into meaningful business information. Developed through years of successful best practice implementations, Kalido's robust, business-model driven information management engine governs data across the enterprise and automatically feeds information to industry standard BI platforms. Kalido® software is implemented at over 250 locations in more than 100 countries with market leading companies. More information about Kalido can be found at: http://www.kalido.com.
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Williams has worked as CEO or chairman of several category defining companies funded by some of the most successful venture capital firms in the world. Most recently Williams was chairman of Hyperic, a leader in open source systems management software for today's large Web, SaaS and cloud applications and infrastructures. Prior to that, Williams was CEO of Wily Technology, the leader in Web application management, which was acquired by CA (Computer Associates) in 2006. Earlier he was CEO of Illustra Information Technologies, a pioneer of object relational database technology. Dick then co-founded and served as chairman of Quokka Sports, an online immersive sports media company, which completed its initial public offering in 1999.
Williams' executive leadership experience began at IBM, where he spent 22 years in a variety of sales, marketing, product and business management roles, including vice president for the company's Data Systems and General Products divisions. He then served as president and CEO of Digital Research, which he turned around and later sold to Novell. At Novell Williams served as executive vice president of sales and support, and general manager of Novell's Digital Research Systems Group.
"The never-ending proliferation of malware makes it clear we as an industry have yet to solve the problem of cybercrime," said Williams. "This presents a tremendous opportunity for Webroot, given the company's history as a pioneer in antimalware and an innovator in cloud-based security. I'm excited to join this team of top-notch professionals as we aggressively innovate and distinguish Webroot as a leader in making the Internet a safe place for consumers and businesses everywhere."
Williams is an outside director of Fortify Software, 3VR Security and Chairman of Altor Networks.
ABOUT WEBROOT
Webroot, a Boulder, Colorado-based company provides industry-leading security solutions to consumers, enterprises and small to medium-sized businesses worldwide. For more information visit http://www.webroot.com/ or call 800.772.9383.
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Umber's patent-pending solution offers the first real-time, automated, and transparent approach for carriers, content providers, and advertisers to extract revenue based on unprecedented visibility and insight into mobile usage. Umber is led by world-class mobile experts and backed by leading venture capitalists.
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Prior to Reconnex, Taggart was responsible for leading the worldwide sales and support operations at both Cyberguard Corporation and Secure Computing.
Taggart holds a Masters of Business Administration degree and Bachelors Degree in political science from UCLA.
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"Desktop virtualization has the potential to substantially reduce the cost and complexity of personal computing in the enterprise, but its full potential won't be unlocked with the mixed bag of point tools and vendor-specific utilities currently offered as management," said Don Bulens, President and CEO, Unidesk. "With a single innovative technology, Unidesk's open management platform reduces the capital costs of storage, cuts management OpEx, and maximizes worker productivity regardless of whether the virtualized desktop is a thin client, PC, notebook, or mobile device. I'm delighted to be with the company that will finally give users the rich desktop experience they demand, and rid IT of the agony they face in trying to bring data center-class levels of control, security, and manageability to the edge."
Bulens fortifies an executive team that has an impressive track record of delivering innovative IT infrastructure management solutions. His appointment enables Unidesk Founder Chris Midgley, who had been the company's acting CEO, to focus full-time on his CTO role leading the company's technical strategy and product vision. Bulens has also joined Midgley on Unidesk's Board of Directors.
"Don was our clear choice to be Unidesk's CEO, and we're extremely excited he is now guiding the company that we think will reinvent desktop management," said Tim Barrows, Managing Partner, Matrix Partners. "Don is terrific - he has proven that he can consistently deliver impressive results in technology-leading companies. I look forward to working with him again in this leadership role."
"We believe people are as important as breakthrough technology, and the founding team at Unidesk was a key part of why we made our investment," said Michael Skok, General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners. "With the addition of Don, and the strong customer and partner-oriented culture he brings, we have the right leadership and the right people in place to build a world-class software company."
Bulens was most recently President and CEO of EqualLogic, Inc., the leading provider of networked data storage systems that simplify how IT organizations store and protect information. Under his leadership, EqualLogic achieved stellar growth, doubling revenue each year and achieving the second largest market share in the fastest growing segment of the storage industry. In November 2007, while in the final stages of filing for an IPO, EqualLogic was acquired by Dell.
Bulens arrived at EqualLogic with extensive experience in early-stage and industry-leading companies. He was CEO of Trellix, a leading provider of web site publishing tools, through its sale to Interland, the largest provider of web hosting for small businesses. Earlier, at Lotus, Bulens led the creation of the channel and developer community that contributed to the extraordinary market growth of Lotus Notes. Bulens was Ernst & Young's 2008 Northeast Regional "Entrepreneur of the Year" and a National Finalist for the same award, and was named Massachusetts Network Communications Council's 2008 "CEO of the Year." He holds a BA degree from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA degree from Suffolk University.
For the rich media release, visit http://www.unidesk.com/community/virtual-desktop-management-software-company-names-don-bulens-ceo.
About Unidesk
Unidesk transforms enterprise desktops into low-cost, easy-to-manage computing resources for IT, and highly personal, productivity-enhancing tools for end users. By reducing the operational and capital costs of delivering, updating, and servicing virtual desktops hosted in data centers, as well as PCs and notebooks virtualized with Type 1 and Type 2 client hypervisors, and by offering end users the richest possible desktop experience, Unidesk will become the management platform that helps desktop virtualization realize its full potential. Unidesk is a privately-held company with worldwide headquarters in Marlborough, MA USA. For more information, visit the virtual desktop management blog or http://www.unidesk.com/.
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Mr. Milton previously served as president and chief operating officer of Intervoice, Inc., a publicly traded leader in interactive voice response and IP messaging systems that was acquired by Convergys Corporation in September 2008. Prior to his three years at Intervoice and Convergys, Mr. Milton served in senior management roles at UGS Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Mr. Milton received a Bachelor of Mathematics degree with Joint Honors in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Waterloo in Canada.
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"Pete's track record as a successful CEO in this industry, leading companies of similar size and growth trajectory, made him an ideal match to continue to build upon 41st Parameter's success to date," said Ted Schlein, managing partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and member of 41st Parameter's board of directors. "This is an exciting time for the industry. Last year 41st Parameter grew revenue by more than 300 percent and increased its customer base by over 40 percent. With innovative, proven technology and the addition of Pete's insight and expertise, we are well positioned to help companies in their ongoing battle against increasingly sophisticated fraud threats."
Selda was most recently the president and chief executive officer for identity-based network access control vendor Identity Engines, where he stepped in to engineer a full operational restructuring of the company and defined a corporate growth strategy that delivered over 100 new customers and established sector leadership in less than 18 months. Under his direction the company received several prominent industry accolades, including the AlwaysOn Top 100 Private Company, Red Herring Global 100 Finalist and Gartner "Cool Vendor" designations. Selda also served as CEO of Internet Dynamics, an early player in the ebusiness policy authorization market which he sold to Red Creek Communications.
"41st Parameter has quickly become the leader in the online fraud prevention market, thanks to a highly skilled team of anti-fraud experts and innovative technology proven effective in helping the e-commerce, financial services, and travel marketplaces in their ongoing battle against commercial fraud and cybercrime," said Pete Selda, newly named president and chief executive officer. "It is evident 41st Parameter has a tremendous opportunity in this market and I look forward to rapid expansion of the company's commercial impact and reach."
Selda will formally assume the role of CEO on July 13, 2009. Selda succeeds former CEO Bob Lewis who is leaving the post due to health reasons. Lewis has served as CEO for the past three-years and is credited with engineering significant milestones attained by 41st Parameter including international expansion; adding a UK subsidiary, customers in Mexico, Canada, and the UK, and back-to-back years of record growth through the addition of strategic customers including major banks, airlines, and high-profile online merchants.
About 41st Parameter
41st Parameter provides solutions for detecting and preventing fraud across multiple channels for the world's most valued and recognizable brands. Leading travel services, financial institutions, and e-commerce companies rely on 41st Parameter's technology to protect them from cybercrime threats including card not present fraud, new account origination fraud, phishing and account compromise, credit bust outs, and fraud ring detection. Founded in 2004, 41st Parameter makes the process of detecting and preventing fraud easier and more effective, reducing both expenses and potential losses. As a leading web fraud detection innovator the company supplies industry-proven solutions which integrate advanced device identification with comprehensive risk management capabilities. To learn more about 41st Parameter, visit www.the41st.com
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PORTLAND, OR - January 12, 2009 - Jive Software, the social business software leader, announces the addition of John McCracken to its executive management team as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. McCracken brings more than 20 years of sales and senior management experience in the technology industry to the position.
"Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines and wait for things to settle down - now is the time to take advantage of opportunities and put as much distance as possible between Jive and other players in the social software space," said Dave Hersh, CEO, Jive Software. "We know what it takes to succeed in this market and economic climate - John's experience and ingenuity will help Jive reach its goals through 2009 and beyond."
Most recently, McCracken led the Inovis global sales organization as Senior Vice President, Sales, where he focused his time on driving business in both new and existing vertical markets. By implementing a strategic growth initiative aimed at key Fortune 50 companies, McCracken grew sales of Inovis' B2B enterprise managed service offerings by more than 100%. Before Inovis, McCracken served as Vice President of Sales, Americas at Mercury Interactive, where he lead strategic product solutions in the areas of Application Management, IT Governance and ITIL. Prior to joining Mercury, McCracken was the Regional Vice President of Sales at CheckFree Corporation. He has also held executive management positions at American Express, Warrantech and PC ServiceSource and served as an Advisory Board Member for iConclude.
"Enterprise social computing is a white hot market and I am more than excited to join Jive's winning team," said McCracken. "When you look at The Gartner Group's Enterprise Social Software Magic Quadrant report, Forrester's WAVE Report and all the way around the industry, Jive is the clear leader in the space. I joined this unbeatable team for the great leadership of its executive board and the opportunity to be a top player in the exciting new category of social business software."
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At Mobius, Mr. Tikhonov will be responsible for the selection and deployment of high capacity electrode active materials, with an emphasis on high capacity safety and performance stability. Mr. Tikhonov has a BS/MS in Electrchemical technology from St Petersburg Technological Institute, Dept of Electrochemical Technology, Russia.
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Commenting on the appointments, GFI's CEO Walter Scott said: "Dave, Phil and John have the breadth of experience that will allow us to take GFI to the worldwide marketplace for SMBs. They perfectly complement the requirements of this company and I am confident that their contributions will enable GFI to achieve its goals, that is, to experience further growth in terms of sales, product innovation and the quality of services we offer to our customers."
The new Vice-Presidents are:
Phil Bousfield joins GFI as Vice-President of Product Engineering. He has held a variety of engineering and commercial roles and prior to joining GFI he was Head of International Operations for VERITAS. He was also head of engineering for Insignia Solutions where he was responsible for compilation and emulation technologies.
Dave Winpenny joins GFI as Vice-President, Worldwide Customer Support. With nearly 30 years' experience in the high tech customer support industry he is widely recognised for his contributions in building robust and responsive support infrastructures. Over the past 12 years as VP of Support for Seagate Software, VERITAS and CA he has developed numerous solutions for global support issues.
With more than 20 years of senior leadership experience, John Wilson will be managing GFI's global sales activities. Prior to joining GFI, he was the Vice-President World Wide Field Operations, for Qualys. Before joining Qualys, John held a variety of leadership positions with Cybertrust, Ubizen, The Sayers Group, Winstar Communications, LANSystems, and Johnson & Johnson. In addition, John served as an officer in the U.S. Army and is a combat veteran.
About GFI
GFI is a leading software developer that provides a single source for network administrators to address their network security, content security and messaging needs. With award-winning technology, an aggressive pricing strategy and a strong focus on small-to-medium sized businesses, GFI is able to satisfy the need for business continuity and productivity encountered by organizations on a global scale. GFI has offices in the US, Malta, UK, Hong Kong and Australia which support more than 200,000 installations worldwide. GFI is a channel-focused company with over 10,000 partners worldwide. GFI is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. More information about GFI can be found at http://www.gfi.com.
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"We are truly delighted to bring on board such a talented and energetic individual as Brian who will help Camiant strengthen its global presence," said Ed Delaney, Camiant CEO. "Given his proven ability to motivate sales teams to exceed their goals and his extensive experience in developing and managing new business and fostering existing client relationships, Camiant is primed for a strong period of continued growth and success."
At Camiant, McNealy is responsible for all aspects of sales and account management for service providers and channel partners worldwide.
"Camiant has been selected by many tier-one wireless, cable and wireline service providers. I am excited to join a company that is uniquely positioned and is widely recognized as the leader in policy control," said Brian McNealy, vice president of sales, Camiant. "The policy control market is poised for tremendous growth as operators look to deliver increased revenue and higher quality of service with their existing infrastructure and Camiant is at the forefront of this strategic technology space."
McNealy earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from James Madison University, and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from George Washington University.
About Camiant
Camiant's policy control server, fully compliant with 3GPP*'s Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) specifications, empowers broadband service providers to open their networks and deliver a significantly higher quality of service to subscribers by guaranteeing superior performance of rich, high-bandwidth services such as video, streaming media, online games and commercial services. Leveraging its deep expertise in policy management and application assurance, Camiant seamlessly enables broadband service providers to deliver high performing user experiences as new, innovative multimedia services continue to enter the market with increasing unpredictability.
Camiant's market-leading policy control software platform is the solution of choice for service providers who want to reduce OPEX and CAPEX, increase ARPU and reduce churn by improving the user experience. By delivering predictable performance of new multimedia applications, Camiant has become the trusted source for delivering policy control and application assurance to service providers globally. For more information, visit http://www.camiant.com.
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"We are extremely pleased to have Bertrand join our team and lead our next stage of growth worldwide," said Seth Hallem, Coverity CEO and co-founder. "Bertrand's deep experience in rapid-growth companies will help us execute new market opportunities, lead our global expansion plans, and drive success for our growing base of 500 plus customers."
Prior to joining Coverity, Yansouni served as Vice President of Channels for Riverbed (Nasdaq: RVBD), a leading company in the WAN acceleration space that had one of the must successful IPOs of 2006. Prior to Riverbed, Mr. Yansouni was part of VMware's North America sales leadership team that helped the company grow company revenue from $30 million to $350 million during his tenure. Mr. Yansouni has also held sales management positions at Portera, Informix, and IBM Corporation.
"Coverity has a tremendous opportunity to extend its leadership in software integrity and fundamentally improve the way companies ensure the quality, security and integrity of the software that runs their business," said Yansouni. "I look forward to cultivating Coverity's world-class field organization so we continue to deliver exceptional value to our worldwide customer base."
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About Jupiter Systems: Founded in 1982, Jupiter Systems has a 25-year-history supplying visualization solutions for command and control that help customers respond to the complex demands of operations in security, defense, transportation, power, education, and business communications. Utilizing a world-wide distribution network of systems integrators to address the high growth markets in command and control rooms, Jupiter has deservedly attained a position as the market leader in display wall technology.
Jupiter Systems, an ISO 9000:2001 registered company, is a technology leader that is recognized in the industry for innovation and quality. Our family of Fusion and VizionPlus Display Wall Processors are the top selling, highest performance display wall processors on the market today with some 6,000 installations world wide. With continued investment in Research and Development, Jupiter has recently announced its new and innovative PixelNetTM architecture which is poised to change the way AV signalling is managed, not only for the command and control market, but for the wider AV market as well.
Jupiter is employee owned and lead by a seasoned management team... Together, they have almost a century's experience in supplying best-of-breed solutions to real-world problems.
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De Visser joins Sonatype from Zend Technologies, the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer for the last 3 years. Prior to Zend, De Visser led Marketing for Agitar Software, a supplier of tools for Java software developers, where he oversaw the successful introduction of three generations of the Agitator development tool, winning broad customer adoption as well as technology awards from JavaOne, InfoWorld, eWeek, SDTimes, and the Wall Street Journal. Before Agitar, de Visser was vice president of marketing at Red Hat Inc. where he was a member of the team that created the company's market-leading position with the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. He also worked for twelve years at Borland International in international and product marketing roles, and as vice president of corporate marketing.
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"Mike is an exceptional match for Operative. He shares our conviction that customer satisfaction is critical to long-term success," says Mike Leo, CEO and president of Operative. "His prior experience as a leader in both digital advertising sales and enterprise software in both U.S. and international markets will help our company continue its tremendous rate of customer acquisition and ongoing leadership. We are thrilled to have him as part of the executive team."
Hard joins Operative from Microsoft where he spent over 17 years working in various sales leadership roles. Most recently, he served as vice president of U.S. digital advertising sales, charged with driving online media sales for Microsoft's digital properties and partnerships, and spearheading the transformation of its digital sales model. Prior to this position, Hard led several of Microsoft's most dynamic software sales organizations, founding the company's first vertical sales and services organization in financial services and running international sales subsidiaries in the Philippines and Latin America.
"Advertising's aggressive transition from traditional to digital is undeniable, and as a result, publishers need to streamline business processes across their digital properties," said Hard. "I'm thrilled about joining Operative and working with a world-class executive team. Operative's reputation as the industry's leading provider of ad management technology and services with a history of meeting the challenging needs of publishers now and in the future solidified my decision to help lead the company's customer and growth initiatives."
Operative recently announced partnerships with NBCU and National Public Media and appointed Vedant Sampath, a former Oracle software expert, as chief technology officer. These customer-wins and executive appointments represent Operative's noteworthy reputation in the digital ad space and success in helping the world's top publishers automate their digital ad management and operations business.
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Jackson comes to Ounce from Quova, where he served as COO. Quova created the "IP intelligence" category of Internet infrastructure and Jackson played a key role in growing the company from inception to profitability. Earlier in his career, Jackson was president of Ozro, a pioneer in on-line contract negotiation, which has become a standard in enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, as well as senior VP of Vantive.
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About Curtis:
In November 2007, Curtis joined Duck Creek and leads the Sales, Marketing and Business Development teams. Prior to joining Duck Creek, Curtis served as General Manager/Senior Vice President of Performance Management for Infor Global Solutions with responsibility for over $165M in revenue. Prior to Infor Global Solutions, Curtis had an extensive career at Cognos Corporation ultimately serving as the General Manager/Senior Vice President of Field Operations, Americas Operations with responsibility for over $500M in revenue. During his tenure he was instrumental in development of Cognos' core business intelligence business from its initial start-up to its position as an industry leader. He served as Vice President of Sales, Americas Operations, Vice President of Business Intelligence Sales & Services and Area Vice President of Sales for the Northeast area. During his varied leadership positions, he has managed Sales, Marketing, Professional Services, Product Management, Development, Finance, Human Resources and Legal. Curtis holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and also has completed the Columbia Senior Executive Program and the Columbia Finance and Accounting Executive Program at Columbia University.
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With a proven record for building successful, high-growth software companies, Musser will work directly with Carden and the entire management team to support OpenSpan's evolution into an international software company. OpenSpan is experiencing strong domestic and overseas demand for the OpenSpan Platform as organizations realize its potential to enhance business efficiency, improve customer service and increase employee productivity.
"With revenues doubling every six months, OpenSpan needs a proven software veteran with the operational experience to lead the company to the next level," said Carden. "Eric's extensive track record and strong technical background is an ideal match for OpenSpan. We are looking forward to accelerating the company's already explosive growth under Eric's leadership."
Before joining OpenSpan, Musser was president and CEO of CDC Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA; $402.4 million in annualized 2007 revenues). CDC Software was ranked as the 12th largest enterprise application vendor in the MBT 2007 Global 100 List of Enterprise and Supply Chain Management Application vendors. Musser was also named one of the Top 20 Enterprise Software Leaders of 2007 by a leading ERP journal.
During his tenure at CDC Software, Musser's personal focus was on creating customer value and improving customer satisfaction. These satisfied customers were in turn instrumental in driving the dramatic growth of CDC Software. Musser has also been a highly visible software industry advocate throughout his career, regularly addressing large and small audiences across the globe. He will remain active, speaking about key industry topics such as "Maximizing the Business Value of Software Applications," "Improving Customer Care by Optimizing Desktop Productivity" and "Accelerating SOA to Desktop Users."
"I have always had a passion for innovative technologies that solve real business challenges and OpenSpan has already demonstrated an ability to transform our customers' businesses by streamlining the way workers interact with business applications, shaving significant time off of business workflows and increasing overall desktop efficiency," said Musser. "With its impressive technology, burgeoning market potential and seasoned management team, I see great potential in OpenSpan and look forward to building on the company's current momentum to take its growth to the next level."
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Nat joins following his role as founder and CEO of eFORCE, a global solutions provider. Prior to eFORCE, he held the position of Vice President and General Manager of Siebel Systems's Financial Services division. Nat also held executive positions including Vice President and General Manager at Scopus Technology, later acquired by Siebel Systems, and Vice President and Business Unit Manager at Alysis Technologies through the completion of its successful IPO. Earlier, Nat held positions in Product Management and Marketing at TRW and Wang Labs. He holds an MS in Chemical Engineering from University of Virginia and a bachelor's degree (B.Tech) in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay.
Arcot is based in Sunnvale, CA and is backed by Accel Partners, Onset Ventures and Granite Ventures.
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"As Tectura continues to grow, strengthen, and optimize our tremendous resources in North America, and continue on the path to achieving our Mission in building an enduring business, we believe Haley will be invaluable to our efforts," said Terry Petrzelka, Chief Executive Officer of Tectura. "We're very excited to have Kathleen join the Tectura team. She brings a consistent track record of exceeding business objectives in a variety of field-based and corporate assignments, and in building and scaling businesses. In strong alignment with Tectura's Vision, Kathleen makes it both her personal and team's priority to achieve the highest standards in client and team member satisfaction."
"I'm very pleased to join Tectura and have the opportunity to work with the leadership team in taking the Americas to the next level," said Ms. Haley. "Tectura Americas' ability to provide clients with services and solutions that address today's business and technology challenges is truly what makes a value-add partnership. I look forward to building on that strong foundation and helping to deepen relationships with both our clients and team members."
Most recently, Haley worked as vice president of worldwide field services at Sendmail, Inc., a premier thought leader for email architecture and email systems integration. Just prior, she spent approximately seven years at Business Objects, a leading supplier of business intelligence software, as vice president of Professional Services in the Americas and as vice president of Global Services Operations. In both roles, Haley was responsible for creating infrastructures to support fast-paced services organizations which included building integration and standardization efforts to drive better efficiency out of her organizations.
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About StillSecure
StillSecure specializes in commercial and open source secure network infrastructure solutions. Products include network access control (NAC), intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS), vulnerability management and a unified networking/security platform. By converging networking and security, StillSecure provides innovative, intuitive and affordable solutions to operate secure networks. Established in 2000, StillSecure customers range from midsize organizations to the world's largest enterprises with a strong emphasis in government, financial services, education, and healthcare. For more information visit http://www.stillsecure.com or call 303-381-3830.
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"We are delighted to have three strong and talented executives join the company's leadership team to help in taking Arena into the next phase of its development," said Craig Livingston, chief executive officer of Arena Solutions. "Arun and Marc have certainly earned their promotions, having garnered respect for the significant contributions they've made to the company thus far, developing an application that, through its virtues, tends to sell itself. Doug comes to Arena with great accolades for his customer-focused approach and the marketing leadership he's provided in his past positions, having effectively bridged the gap between market comprehension and day-to-day execution of the strategies and tactics necessary to drive revenue for the software industry. We look forward to the programs he will establish that will increase awareness of Arena PLM and fill our pipeline with new companies that haven't already been introduced to Arena by our influential customers."
As vice president of marketing, Bell is responsible for all of Arena's corporate, field and product marketing, and will lead business development efforts. Before joining Arena, Bell was a vice president of marketing at Selectica, a leader in on-demand lifecycle management solutions for contract management and sales configuration. In his work at Selectica, he focused squarely on customers and designed programs that led to revenue growth of 450 percent in a single year. Focus on customers, building pipeline and growing revenue have also been hallmarks of his work in previous marketing leadership positions at Ariba and I-many, where Bell developed expertise in the supply chain management, sourcing and procurement fields. Deep experience in finance at operational powerhouses like Cisco, Coca-Cola Enterprises and GE Capital complements Bell's marketing experience and forms the foundation of his results-driven approach. Bell holds a bachelor's degree in finance from Drexel University.
As the vice president of engineering, Gopalakrishnan oversees all facets of software development at Arena, including quality assurance, testing and release. Gopalakrishnan combines deep technical expertise with extensive management experience. Before joining Arena in 2003, much of Gopalakrishnan's work was focused on developing software for engineers. As the senior engineering manager at Cadence Design Systems, a leading electronic design automation (EDA) technologies and engineering services company, he led a team to develop a new-generation, web-based printed circuit board (PCB) design environment. At OrCAD, where he worked before OrCAD was acquired by Cadence, Gopalakrishnan led the development of Activeparts.com, an online electrical parts library, and the widely used Component Information System (CIS) for OrCAD Capture. Gopalakrishnan holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Calicut, India.
As vice president of product design, Escobosa is responsible for guiding the product roadmap and designing the interaction model and user interface for all Arena products. Escobosa's commitment to building intuitive, easy-to-learn and easy-to-use interfaces stems from many years of experience in user-centered design and application interface design. He has worked with Arena since the company's beginning, designing the original Arena PLM interface as principal of the company's design partner, Zaudhaus, before joining Arena in 2004. Escobosa was a co-founder of Zaudhaus, which is a full-service design studio specializing in brand, experience and interface design. Before that he was the senior product designer at NetObjects, where he designed the interface for the first four major versions of Fusion, a groundbreaking visual website editor. He's been recognized for superior interaction design twice (once for Fusion and once for Arena PLM) by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) through that organization's IDEA (International Design Excellence Awards) program, the premier international competition honoring design excellence. Escobosa graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth College with a bachelor's degree in psychology.
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About Jupiter Systems: Founded in 1982, Jupiter Systems has a 25-year-history supplying visualization solutions for command and control that help customers respond to the complex demands of operations in security, defense, transportation, power, education, and business communications. Utilizing a world-wide distribution network of systems integrators to address the high growth markets in command and control rooms, Jupiter has deservedly attained a position as the market leader in display wall technology.
Jupiter Systems, an ISO 9000:2001 registered company, is a technology leader that is recognized in the industry for innovation and quality. Our family of Fusion and VizionPlus Display Wall Processors are the top selling, highest performance display wall processors on the market today with some 6,000 installations world wide. With continued investment in Research and Development, Jupiter has recently announced its new and innovative PixelNetTM architecture which is poised to change the way AV signalling is managed, not only for the command and control market, but for the wider AV market as well.
Jupiter is employee owned and lead by a seasoned management team... Together, they have almost a century's experience in supplying best-of-breed solutions to real-world problems.
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Ricketts brings 24 years of sales and marketing experience within high growth technology companies to Akorri. In his most recent role, Ricketts was Program Director, WebSphere Portal at IBM Corporation - a role he took on after IBM purchased Bowstreet, where he was serving as Vice President of Marketing. At IBM, Ricketts secured recognition for the company as the top rated Enterprise Portal vendor in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. At Bowstreet, Ricketts formulated an expansion strategy that transformed the company from a "tools" vendor to the leader in portal-based composite applications.
Prior to this Ricketts was Vice President of Marketing at Emptoris, the leader in Web-based strategic sourcing and contract management solutions for Global 2000 companies, where he was able to recruit a world-class marketing team and grow the company from no revenue to a $40 Million run rate over a four-year period. Ricketts was also a Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at ScanSoft (now Nuance, NASDAQ: NUAN), the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, where he played a key role in taking the company public and launched several award winning products. Ricketts also held marketing and sales positions at Xerox and Nortel.
"We are pleased to welcome Steve to his leadership position in Marketing and Product Management," said Tom Joyce, President and CEO at Akorri. "Steve's incredible depth of accomplishment and broad experience in growing high tech companies will serve Akorri well as we look to expand our channel marketing programs and extend our market presence and recognition in the Virtualization Performance Management market."
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Tapling brings more than 20 years experience in strategic planning, operational management, and financial performance of both public and private technology firms
LOS ANGELES - March 12, 2008 - Language Weaver, a leading software company for the automated translation of human languages, announced today its new chief executive officer, Mark Tapling, effective immediately. Tapling comes to Language Weaver with more than 20 years of progressive experience in the strategy, growth, financial and operational management of both public and private technology firms. He has served as CEO and director of public and private companies, including an independent directorship where he helped guide a successful sale of the company.
"Companies around the world are overwhelmed each day with the challenges of human language translation in their businesses. Language Weaver has established a wide technology lead, and is uniquely positioned to advance as the leading global provider of machine based translation systems," said Tapling. "I am very happy to join Language Weaver during this exciting window of growth." As CEO, Tapling will be responsible for the strategic planning and vertical market expansion driving growth globally for Language Weaver. Tapling most recently served as the president and CEO of InfoGenesis, one of the country's leading hospitality technology companies, located in Santa Barbara, Calif. During his tenure, he was responsible for all aspects of the company's global strategy and led the sale of the company to Agilysys in 2007.
Dr. Daniel Marcu, founder, CTO and interim chairman of the board for Language Weaver, said, "On behalf of the entire board of directors and our whole team at Language Weaver, I am pleased to welcome Mark to the company. His insights into the global marketplace as well as his great financial and strategic planning experience will be a boon to our growth. But even more important, Mark's skills as a communicator, motivator and team leader will help us in maintaining the open and innovative culture we have here while positioning for growth."
Prior to InfoGenesis, Tapling was the CEO of Everypath, the leading enterprise-level mobile applications company. There, Tapling led the company to market leading success--establishing the mobile task automation category, recapitalizing the company, and shipping products to customers in 26 countries around the world. Under his direction, Everypath became the recipient of Frost & Sullivan's "Mobile Application of the Year for Life Sciences" award.
Previously, in August of 2000, Tapling successfully led the initial public offering of ServiceWare, Inc., following two private equity rounds, raising approximately $70 million in total. In addition, Tapling has received several recognitions over the years, including being named one of Software Magazine's "100 People to Watch in Knowledge Management" and was given PNC Bank's "Entrepreneur of the Year" award in 2000 while serving as CEO for ServiceWare Technologies.
Tapling received his BS in Economics and Management from Michigan State University. He has participated in several executive management programs as well, with the most notable being programs at the SC Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.
About Language Weaver, Inc.
Language Weaver was founded in 2002 to commercialize a unique approach to automatic language translation using proprietary statistical translation algorithms that resulted from research and development at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI). Its resulting product, statistical machine translation software (SMTS), provides the highest quality output to date in automated translation. Language Weaver's translation systems produce fluent, natural sounding translations and save customers money and time through automation of the translation process. The company has more than 50 patents pending on its SMTS technology worldwide. Language Weaver licenses a server version.
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Aakar Patel has over 15 years of experience in the battery and semiconductor technology markets. Mr. Patel worked at Duracell in the New Products and Technology group in various positions where he was responsible for helping launch many laptop and camcorder products. He was instrumental in building Duracell’s US manufacturing operations and helping to drive the Smart Battery Specifications (SMBus). Prior to Battery-Biz, Mr. Patel worked at Semtech where he was the Director of Corporate Marketing. Mr. Patel brings a varied expertise to Battery-Biz and has helped in expanding its markets and operations. Aakar has an Executive MBA and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut. The new CEO will be responsible for leading the transformation of Mobius Technology in to commercial products and successfully marketing them. Reporting directly to the Board of Directors, The CEO will have the ultimate responsibility for running and leading the company. He will be responsible for the overall strategic direction of the company, executing company plans, raising additional funds to sustain operations and generating value for the shareholders.
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Vedant Sampath Brings Software Development and Product Management Expertise
NEW YORK CITY, April 21, 2008 - Operative, a global advertising resource management (ARM) platform provider, today announced the appointment of Vedant Sampath as Chief Technology Officer. In his new role, Vedant will lead the company's overall technology direction and drive Operative's rapid growth and industry leadership. A 20-year veteran of the software technology industry, Vedant joins Operative from Oracle Corporation where he served as Vice President of Software Development. "Many of the challenges that digital media face today were solved by other industries years ago," said Mike Leo, CEO and President of Operative. "Vedant's experience in entrepreneurial execution combined with his knowledge of how other verticals use enterprise software to scale their business will help guide Operative's product strategy and client value."
At Oracle, Vedant led the team responsible for its market-leading Financial Consolidation and Statutory Reporting products. Prior to this position, he served as Vice President of Product Management, leading the product management teams responsible for Hyperion Solutions' (acquired by Oracle) Business Intelligence and Financial Performance Management products. Additionally, Vedant was part of the team at Hyperion that turned around and positioned the company as the industry-leading business performance management software provider.
Vedant's previous experience includes development and product management roles at Platinum Technology (acquired by CA), Claris Software (part of Apple) and Energyline Systems. He was a founder of technology startup Livebinder.com.
"The digital advertising space is expanding rapidly and has outgrown the ad hoc backoffice processes that have been supporting it" said Vedant. "Digital media companies are looking to increase their revenues with better analytics and automation of advertising management processes. I'm excited to join the team at Operative, whose Operative Dashboard offers the industry's richest platform for managing digital advertising processes."
The appointment of Vedant Sampath and Operative's global growth in the past quarter demonstrate the company's dedication to building upon its eight successful years of enabling media publishers to streamline the execution, management and tracking of digital ad campaigns.
About Operative
Established in 2000, Operative is a global organization that provides its clients with technology and services to improve all aspects of their advertising operations lifecycle, from pre-sale to collections, trafficking to reconciliation. OperativeDashboard™, an ASP software solution, is an end-to-end workflow management platform that enables media publishers to automate contract management, product packaging and pricing, inventory management, campaign reporting and revenue recognition. Operative's client base includes The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, MSN, Smart Money, iVillage, NBC Universal, and National Public Broadcasting. More information about Operative can be found at: www.operative.com.
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About aPriori
aPriori software and services generate hard-dollar product cost savings for discrete manufacturing organizations. Using aPriori's real-time product cost assessments, employees in sourcing, manufacturing and design engineering make more-informed decisions that drive costs out of products pre- and post-production. With aPriori, manufacturers launch products at cost targets, maximize savings in re-work projects and never overpay for sourced parts.
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Coleman comes to CaseCentral after four years at Stellent, where he held a number of high level management positions, including executive vice president for North American sales. As EVP, Coleman led an organization of over 80 people, and directed sales and partner activities that increased annual revenue by over 60% to more than $122 million. Stellent, a leading enterprise content management firm, was acquired by Oracle just over a year ago.
Prior to Stellent, Coleman spent seven years in sales and sales management positions at Siebel Systems, where he was a significant contributor as it grew from a CRM start up to one of the most respected software providers in the industry. Previously, Coleman spent four years in direct and channel sales positions at Lawson, a leading ERP provider. Coleman's sales career began as a top performer at EDS/McDonnell Douglas where he spent nine years in various sales and business development roles. Coleman has received numerous honors, including being named to Siebel's President's Club (top 10%), and achieving Top Sales Representative of the Year at both Lawson and EDS/McDonnell Douglas.
"I am proud to join CaseCentral's executive team, and will begin the immediate expansion of our sales organization and partner sales activities across the country," said Coleman. "The eDiscovery market is in the midst of incredible expansion, with a wide set of competing and complementary players. As an early leader, CaseCentral is well-positioned for success as the market matures. Stellent, Siebel, Lawson and EDS/McDonnell Douglas all faced the similar challenge of breaking through the $100 million barrier while maintaining a clear leadership position in their industries. I will leverage that experience as we at CaseCentral work to achieve those same objectives."
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In his new role, Michael will oversee growth of the company's sales and channel organizations for the APAC region to support the new build out for the Xen product. Prior to his long career at Borland Software, Michael served in various roles at Sterling Commerce and Gartner. Michael will be based in Citrix's Singapore office.
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Mr. Verni was most recently President & CEO of Sage Software, Inc, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Sage Group, plc. Under his leadership, the company grew from less than $160 million in revenue to over $1 billion, from under 1,000 employees to over 5,000, and from 1 million business customers to over 2.5 million.
"Ron's entrepreneurial and management experience and his track record of building successful businesses give us great confidence in achieving the future growth and success of our company," said Michaux. "His vision, passion, and operational expertise are integral to continue building Corrigo as the leading provider of mobile SaaS applications for the service, construction and facilities markets."
"Corrigo is one of the most exciting companies in the Software as a Service (SaaS) sector as it focuses on key segments of the field services market that together have more than fourteen million potential users," said Ron Verni. "They are unique in delivering complete SaaS solutions that extend from the office to mobile devices in the field. Rick and his team have built a terrific company and have developed a great set of products and services that are perfectly targeted for this market. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to lead this team as the company continues on its next critical stage of development."
Prior to Sage Software, Mr. Verni was President and CEO of Peachtree Software, Inc., a leading business management solution for small to medium size businesses. Verni also was a Vice President of Marketing with Automatic Data Processing, President and CEO of NEBS Software, Inc., and the founder and CEO of ASTEC Software.
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"We are pleased to have Roman's unique combination of experience with leading-edge technologies and complex solutions, and his proven business development background," said Boyd Pearce, Truviso's president and chief executive officer. "He joins us at a critical juncture in our history, and we will benefit enormously from his background and focus as we work to build our market presence and win customer loyalty."
Mr. Bukary joins Truviso from SAP, where he served most recently as vice president in the Global Partner Ecosystem Group, responsible for numerous SAP strategic technology partnerships. Previously at SAP, he launched the company's analytic application business after holding positions in composite applications and business intelligence solution marketing. Earlier in his career, Mr. Bukary was a co-founding executive and vice president of product marketing at Rearden Commerce, a service-oriented architecture personal services procurement firm. At Rearden, he was responsible for the company's marketing, corporate strategy, and strategic alliances. Prior to Rearden, he was part of Informatica Corporation's management team, which took the company public. Mr. Bukary also has broad experience in building and leading product and industry marketing groups, corporate strategy, and product management with companies including Baan and Parametric Technology Corporation. He started his career as an aeronautical design engineer at Pratt & Whitney, UTC, and holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering, as well as a B.S. in psychology, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.
"I'm excited to join Truviso's team. The company has great people, superior technology, and market transforming potential," said Bukary. "While many companies have attempted to solve the challenge of delivering timely, contextually-rich insights for dynamic businesses, Truviso's innovative, standards-based technology is the first to achieve this goal—and achieve it in a way that is ready for broad customer adoption."
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Mr. Weingartner joins RED 5 with over 20 years experience in software development and engineering. Weingartner most recently served as VP Server Technology at Oracle where he led the worldwide engineering efforts for the SOA Suite product set. Prior to Oracle, Weingartner served as VP Engineering at Talking Blocks through it's acquisition by HP, where he stayed on to lead the worldwide R&D Enablement team, a 500+ person organization. Before this, Weingartner spent 3 years as VP Engineering at Siebel systems, a CRM solutions leader acquired by Oracle in 2005.
RED 5 STUDIOS is based in Aliso Viejo, CA., and backed by Benchmark Capital and Sierra Ventures.
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Ryan Thomas, Former Scriptlogic VP, Will lead the expansion of inside sales for Citrix’s new Virtualization Server Business Unit which will be lead by Xensource CEO, Peter Levine.
Executive Search firm Daversa Partners have recruited Ryan Thomas as the new director of inside sales at Citrix Systems. In his new role, Thomas will oversee growth of the company’s inside sales and channel organizations for the Americas region to support the new sales build out supporting the Xen product line. Ryan has a vast amount of experience in inside sales playing a crucial role at Seagate Software and Veritas based in Florida.
The search was lead by Senior Associate, Peter Baiocco. Citrix Systems, Inc. designs, develops and markets technology solutions that enable applications to be delivered, supported and shared on demand. Its Application Delivery Infrastructure products are designed to offer solutions across all dimensions of application delivery. It packages and markets application delivery solutions, and it has organized its products into five principal product groupings: Application Virtualization, Application Networking, Management Systems, Online Services and Advanced Solutions. The Company markets and licenses its products through multiple channels, such as value-added resellers, channel distributors, system integrators (Sis), independent software vendors (ISVs), its Websites and original equipment manufacturers. In January 2007, the Company acquired Ardence Inc. In March 2007, the Company acquired thinGenius, Ltd. In September 2007, it acquired QuickTree, a software technology provider. In October 2007, Citrix Systems, Inc. acquired XenSource, Inc.
Daversa Partners; located in Stamford, San Francisco, and Austin, recruits C-level executives exclusively for venture backed companies in the BPO, enterprise software and consumer spaces.
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Slattery's appointment signals an intensifying focus at Camiant to support next-generation broadband Internet protocol networks, and emerging wireless platforms which demand unparalleled performance in the delivery of multimedia content and applications. The company's policy management solutions portfolio enables broadband network providers to assure exacting allocations of network resources that support the flawless delivery of a wide array of applications.
"Steve's appointment underscores Camiant's commitment to serving top-tier customers around the world, and accelerating the growth of the compmany as multimedia applications and mobile convergence plays a critical role across market segments," said Ed Anderson, managing partner of North Bridge Venture Partners, and a member of the Camiant board of directors. " His prominence in the field of mobility, and his demonstrated ability to translate technology innovation into large-scale business, dovetails perfectly with Camiant's rising profile in the broadband sector. We are thrilled to have an executive of Steve's caliber lead Camiant into its next growth phase,"
Slattery is a well known telecommunications executive with a reputation for advancing large, growing businesses that depend on innovative technologies. Most recently, he was president of Nortel's Enterprise Solutions business unit, where he established strategic partnerships with Microsoft and changed the trajectory of the division to its current 20% year-over-year quarterly revenue growth. Previously, Slattery served as president of Nortel's Carrier Packet Networks organization, which encompassed the company's Ethernet, optical, and wireline voice and data portfolios. He is also widely recognized as the driver of Nortel's successes in the mobile market, and for establishing Nortel as a key vendor at Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other mobile operators for rollouts of their respective 3G infrastructures.
Slattery holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and a MBA from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.
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Karrat most recently served as the Senior Vice President of Sales for Yahoo HotJobs, where he managed a team of 300 people during his 4 years with the company. He joins Mimeo.com with more than 15 years of experience in sales and marketing.
Karrat, the newest member on the Mimeo.com executive team, will lead the rapidly growing sales and marketing team as it expands domestically and internationally.
In commenting on today’s announcement, Adam Slutsky, Chief Executive Officer of Mimeo.com, stated, "Hiring someone of Tom’s caliber and experience is a real coup for Mimeo.com and indicates the emergence and attraction of our brand to high profile senior executives nationwide. Tom’s energy, experience, and know-how will accelerate Mimeo.com’s growth in the online, on-demand market nationally while helping us expand into key international markets."
Mimeo.com executes this key hire directly on the heels of several company achievements and milestones, including being named to the Deloitte Fast 50 and 500 lists, the Inc. 5,000 and the recent round of funding led by Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies Group.
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Prior to joining VMWare in 2005, Tyson spent time at F5 Networks, Netscape, Lotus Development and IBM in OEM sales, Business Development, Security Sales. Prior to kicking off his sales career, Tony also served as the 1st employee and principal engineer at Intuit, where he personally developed Quicken 1.0 for the company.
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Matt Gay is Operative’s GM of Media Monetization, responsible for leading Operative’s channel management initiatives and enabling clients to better monetize their ad business. Most recently, Matt Gay was SVP of Global Media Systems for Mediabrands Worldwide, where he was responsible for implementing and integrating systems in order to create efficiencies within and across agencies. Prior to his stint at Mediabrands,Matt was Vice President of Media Advertising Operations for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. and also served as Manager of Technology Integration at Deloitte Consulting. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Bucknell University and sits on Bucknell’s Alumni Board of Directors. In 2008, he co-founded Bucknell’s Media and Technology Network and is active in media industry standards initiatives.
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