NetSuite has named Fred Studer, a former Microsoft and Oracle top marketing executive, to its chief marketing officer post, and charged him with overseeing the company’s worldwide marketing initiatives.
Cloud CRM and ERP provider NetSuite (N) has named Fred Studer, a former Microsoft (MSFT) and Oracle (ORCL) top marketing executive, to its chief marketing officer […]
Unisys has named Peter Altabef, a 20-year industry veteran with extensive channel experience, as its new president and chief executive.
Unisys (UIS) has named Peter Altabef, a 20-year industry veteran with extensive channel experience, as its new president and chief executive, replacing J. Edward Coleman, who abruptly announced in early October he would step down […]
IT solution provider Trace3 has appointed Tyler Beecher as its latest chief executive officer, succeeding company founder Hayes Drumwright, who will take on a new leadership position as executive chairman of Trace3.
In his new role as CEO, Beecher will be tasked with helping Trace3 to reach its eventual $1 billion annual revenue goal. He […]
Verizon (VZ) has appointed channel veteran Adam Famularo as the new vice president of Global Channels, the company announced this week.
Prior to joining Verizon earlier this month, Famularo spent the past 16 years at CA Technologies (CA), where he worked directly with channel partners and solution providers to create channel organizations, MSP channels and […]
A few years ago no would have predicted Dell would be the only end-to-end supplier of IT systems in the market, much less the fact that 40 percent of its revenues are now generated by its channel partners.
At the Dell World 2014 conference this week Michael Dell made it clear that as the CEO […]
Unified communications (UC) providers 8×8 and RingCentral are the two companies dominating the UC-as-a-service (USaaS) market in the third quarter of 2014, according to a new study by Synergy Research Group. 8×8 and RingCentral each own a market share of just under 13 percent, cementing them as the twin 800-pound gorillas in the UCaaS […]
Industry veteran Karl Meulema has been appointed channel chief at Riverbed Technology (RVBD), the company announced this week. Meulema, whose resume includes executive positions at Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Avaya, replaces former Riverbed channel chief Randy Schirman, who left the company last month for WAN virtualization startup Talari Networks.
In his new role, Meulema will […]
Application networking solution provider A10 Networks (ATEN) has hired Gunter Reiss, a 21-year Ericsson veteran versed in business development, strategic alliances, business partnerships and OEM relationships, to oversee its activities in those areas.
A10 officials said Reiss will be able to capitalize on momentum the company has built for its Thunder portfolio, which features its application […]
RSA, storage giant EMC’s (EMC) security unit, has promoted its Products senior vice president Amit Yoran to president and tasked him with delivering a unified customer experience across the division’s products and services and its marketing and sales initiatives.
Art Coviello, RSA’s executive chairman, will collaborate with Yoran to formulate and advance the security division’s […]
Sundar Pichai, head of Google’s (GOOG) Android, Apps and Chrome business, now is boss of all the company’s core products, including commerce and ads, Google+, infrastructure, maps, research and search, in an executive reorganization spearheaded by chief executive Larry Page.
According to Re/code, which first reported the shakeup, the six Google executives heading product groups […]
