Top Ten for the week of 4/26/2010

As always, very interesting week for Executive additions. 724 Solutions was acquired by Mobixell back in January 2010 and they merged the websites last week. Applied Biosystems merged with Invitrogen to become Life Technologies back in 2008, now all Corporate information goes to the Life Technologies website for Applied Biosystems.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Vivek Ragavan, President and CEO at Actelis Networks, Inc.
ex-Atrica, Redback, Siara Systems, ADC

Pat Hoey, VP Worldwide Sales at Encover, Inc.
ex-Gartner, Symantec, Pagenet

Kay Chai (KC) Ang, SVP 300mm Fab Operations at GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
ex-Chartered

Amit Singh, VP International Sales and Operations, Enterprise at Google Inc.
ex-Oracle

Joseph R. Chinnici, EVP & CFO at GridPoint, Inc.
ex-Comverse, Ciena, Sara Lee, Playtex

Cameron Ferroni, EVP Strategic Development at GridPoint, Inc.
ex-Microsoft, Marchex

Dado Banatao, Interim President and CEO at Ikanos Communications, Inc.
Tallwood Venture Capital, ex-Mayfield, S3

Keao Caindec, CMO at Opsource, Inc.
ex-Yipes, Farallon Technology Resources

Steve Haynes, VP WW Sales at Tabula, Inc.
ex-Xilinx

Michael Mullarkey, Executive Chairman and CEO at Workstream Inc.
re-added

Since our last post, there have been 122 executive moves at the companies we track, 64 Executives where added at 43 companies and 58 Executives where removed from 48 companies. For the full version of our weekly executive moves archive, please visit www.technames.com or call (925)831-2900.

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Top Ten for the week of 4/19/2010

Big week for Executive moves. 150 total moves at the companies we track, compared to what seems to be the average of 120. Probably the biggest news to the day/week/month is that HP is going to acquire Palm. I have been hearing rumors that buyers have been looking at Palm for a while, but now it's official. Chordiant Software was acquired by Pegasystems. Sabrix was acquired by Thomson Reuters back in November 2009, last week they completed the integration.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Chris Karl, SVP US Sales at Kontera Technologies
ex-Yahoo, Alloy, MTV, PointCast

Mike Potts, Chairman, CEO and President at Lancope, Inc.
ex-AirDefense, Clickfox, Jacada

Brian Blond, SVP Sales at nGenera Corporation
ex-BMC, BladeLogic, Oracle, 170 Systems, Inktomi

Michael Lehman, CFO at Palo Alto Networks
ex-Sun, PWC

Faye Pairman, President and CEO at Panasas, Inc.
ex-AMCC, 3ware, Adaptec

Ken Fehrnstrom, CEO at Parascale, Inc.
ex-PacketMotion, Ascend, StorageNetworks, Cisco, NET, Ungerman-Bass, Telco Systems

Mark Biestman, President Global Field Operations at Rearden Commerce, Inc.
ex-Real Clear, Commerce One, Seven Networks, Oracle, Netscape, Enquisite, others

Sean O'Leary, CEO at StrikeIron, Inc.
ex-TapRoot, Good Technology, Cisco

John Eichhorn, CFO at Tropos Networks, Inc.
ex-PayCycle, Adobe

Jim Kent, CEO at Worksoft, Inc.
ex-Exact Software, The Kent Group

Since our last post, there have been 150 executive moves at the companies we track, 67 Executives where added at 46 companies and 83 Executives where removed from 45 companies. For the full version of our weekly executive moves archive, please visit www.technames.com or call (925)831-2900.

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Top Ten for the week of 4/12/2010

Almost an even split this week with Executive page additions / removals with Removals beating out Additions by 1. Phase Forward was acquired by Oracle and Silicon Storage Technology (SST) was acquired by Microchip Technology.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Christopher Brennan, President and CEO at Contactual
ex-TeleSoft Partners,LogLogic, Banter Systems, Roamware, Mobileum, Genesys, Diamond Lane Communications, UB Networks, Tandem, Digitial Equiqment

Margaret (Margo) Georgiadis, VP Global Sales Operations at Google Inc.
ex-Synetro Capital, Discover Financial Services, McKinsey

Francesco Serafini, EVP Emerging Markets at Hewlett-Packard Company / HP
promotion

John Rodkin, GM Search at Infospace, Inc.
ex-ClickShift, Flyswat, NBC Internet

Oran Muduroglu, CEO at MEDICALIS
ex-Philips Medical Systems, Stentor

Philippe Cases, President and CEO at Spoke Software, Inc.
ex-Partech

Gregg Monastiero, SVP Sales & Marketing at SumTotal Systems, Inc.
ex-JDA Software, Torex, Infor, Baan

Wain Kellum, CEO at Vocalocity, Inc.
ex-Dun & Bradstreet, Ernst & Young, Management Science America

Jay Jawahar, VP Engineering at Zenprise, Inc.
ex-Fineground, Cisco, Cashedge.com, CommerceSoft, Gupta Technologies

Cadir B. Lee, CTO at Zynga, Inc.
ex-SupportSoft

Since our last post, there have been 147 executive moves at the companies we track, 73 Executives where added at 54 companies and 74 Executives where removed from 56 companies. For the full version of our weekly executive moves archive, please visit www.technames.com or call (925)831-2900.

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Top Ten for the week of 4/5/2010

Last week, Google added 3 new executives to their executive page and Salesforce added 2. Google acquired San Francisco-Based Episodic. Facebook acquired San Francisco Photo-Sharing Service Divvyshot. Veoh Networks was acquired by Qlipso.

Top 10 Executive moves:
John Kreisa, VP Marketing at Cloudera, Inc.
ex-Mark Logic, Business Objects

Todd Sabo, GM Americas at Ethertronics, Inc.
ex-Broadcom, AMD and ATI, SMS.ac, ST Microelectronics, Diamond Multimedia, Fujitsu, Apple

Stephanie Schear-Tilenius, VP eCommerce at Google Inc.
ex-eBay, PlanetRx, Intel, AOL, Firefly, Alex Brown

Eileen Nelson, SVP Human Resources at Openwave Systems Inc.
ex-3Com, Tropos, eBay

Mercedes Ellison, SVP Global Alliances and Channels at Saba Software, Inc.
ex-LiveOps, Oracle, Siebel, BEA, Hyperion

Hilarie Koplow-McAdams, EVP Global Corporate Sales at Salesforce.com, Inc.
ex-Oracle, Intuit

Don Peck, CFO and Treasurer at Satcon Technology Corporation
ex-Egenera, First Marblehead, Zeborg, MarketMax, Centennial Technologies

Jessie J. Knight, CEO at SDG&E
ex-Sempra Energy, California Public Utilities Commission, Dole

Douglas Keister, SVP Sales at Servigistics, Inc.
ex-SAP, Oracle, Legent Corporation, Platinum Technology

Bryan Semple, Chief Marketing Officer at VKernel
ex-NetApp, Onaro, Egenera, FairMarket, Trellix, Sybase

Since our last post, there have been 114 executive moves at the companies we track, 55 Executives where added at 45 companies and 59 Executives where removed from 41 companies. For the full version of our weekly executive moves archive, please visit www.technames.com or call (925)831-2900.

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Top Ten for the week of 3/29/2010

You can always tell when a company is doing well when other companies are constantly poaching your executives. Four of our top 10 this week have spent time at Cisco, a small tribute to the success of Cisco over the past 15+ years. Ntru Cryptosystems was acquired by Security Innovation back in July 2009 and they merged their websites last week. AmberPoint was acquired by Oracle in February and last week the AmberPoint website was moved to Oracle. ONStor was acquired by LSI back in July 2009 and finally moved the ONStor webpage to LSI.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Bob Bruce, VP Worldwide Channel Sales at Aruba Networks, Inc.
ex-Meru Networks, Cisco, Juniper, 3com

Chris Spain, VP Product Line Management and Technical Marketing at Aruba Networks, Inc.
ex-Juniper, Cisco, NET, General Datacom, GEC

Eric Shefler, SVP Worldwide Sales at Blade Network Technologies, Inc.
ex-EMC, Cabletron

Richard Walker, President, Control4 Energy Systems at Control4 Corp.
ex-HP, Pumatech

James Reiss, SVP Sales at CoreTrace Corporation
ex-NetIQ, Coollogic, Digital Data Systems, AON

Ronald V. Rose, SVP Dell.com at Dell,Inc.
ex-Priceline

Perry Constantine, EVP Business Development at Exalt Communications, Inc.
ex-LSI, Redwood Microsystems, Silicon Access, IP Infusion, Optichron

Steve Nye, EVP Product Strategy & Corporate Development at Infoblox Inc.
ex-Cisco

Doug Dennerline, EVP Enterprise Sales at Salesforce.com, Inc.
ex-Cisco, 3Com, Global Village, HP

Dennis Allan, SVP Global Sales at Verdasys, Inc.
ex-Progress Software, Univirtua, Information Builders, Stratus Computers, Wang Labs, Computer Horizons, ataware, Onyx Software

Since our last post, there have been 131 executive moves at the companies we track, 59 Executives where added at 43 companies and 72 Executives where removed from 52 companies. For the full version of our weekly executive moves archive, please visit www.technames.com or call (925)831-2900.

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Top Ten for the week of 3/22/2010

Last week, there were around 20 less moves than we normally track, but there were still some interesting additions. Dave Duffield's company, Workday, added another former Peoplesoft exec to their team (Mark Nittler as VP Applications Strategy). Probably the most interesting addition was for eMeter, who added Gary Bloom as their new CEO. Gary was CEO at Veritas when they were acquired by Symantec and served as President at Symantec after the acquisition. Before that he served as EVP at Oracle. Another successful high tech executive crossing over into the green energy space. I am sure there are more to follow.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Richard Heitmann, VP Marketing at Atempo, Inc.
ex-Evault, ONYX, Phoenix Technologies, WatchGuard

Philippe Morin, President, Metro Ethernet Networks at Ciena Corporation
ex-Nortel

Gary Bloom, CEO and President at eMeter Corporation
ex-Veritas, Oracle

Scott Barnett, CEO at Evident Software, Inc.
ex-BEA Systems, Atomica Corporation, eB2B Commerce Inc., IBM Transarc, AT&T Bell Laboratories

Mark Duffell, CEO at Kana Software, Inc.
ex-Epicor, Frame Technology, Accel-KKR

Grant Johnson, VP Corporate Marketing and Communications at Pegasystems Inc.
ex-FileNet, Ethentica, Symantec, Toshiba, AST

Bill Gaylord, VP Business Development at Splunk, Inc.
ex-Hyperion, Oracle, DLJ

Pablo Calamera, CTO at Thumbplay, Inc.
ex-Apple, Danger

Michael J. Sayer, EVP and GM Enterprise at Utopy, Inc.
ex-SupportSoft, Niku, CA, Remedy

Mark Nittler, VP Applications Strategy at Workday, Inc.
ex-Peoplesoft, Symantec

Since our last post, there have been 98 executive moves at the companies we track, 53 Executives where added at 42 companies and 45 Executives where removed from 40 companies. For the full version of our weekly executive moves archive, please visit www.technames.com or call (925)831-2900.

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Top Ten for the week of 3/15/2010

Last week, Oracle added several former Sun executives to their executive page. Several months ago, I noted the migration away from companies that had received bailout money from the government and the difficulty that they were having attracting new executives. Bank of America ended up paying all of the bailout money back, nearly $20 Billion for a new CEO. I already cover several Insurance companies with my Executive update crawler and will work to add as many as I can find over the coming weeks to see what kind of impact the new Healthcare bill will have on them.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Warren Smith, VP Products at Apprion, Inc.
ex-Sun, NetManage, SonicWall, Concentric Networks, IP Dynamics, Mirapoint, IronKey

Brian McGee, VP and GM Powerline at Atheros Communications, Inc.
ex-Intellon, Lexar Media, Equator, SmartAge.com, Academic Systems Corp, Raychem

David Butler, VP Marketing at Digital Reef Inc.
ex-Spotfire, Portera Systems, Netscape, NeXT Software, Cadre Technologies, Data General

Jeremy Burton, EVP and Chief Marketing Officer at EMC Corporation
ex-Serena, Veritas, Symantec, Oracle

Ravikrishna (Ravi Krishna) Cherukuri, VP Engineering at MIPS Technologies, Inc.
ex-Sonoa Systems, Siara Systems, AMD, Redback

John Fowler, EVP Systems at Oracle Corporation
ex-Sun

Frank Bishop, VP and GM Panels Division at Serious Materials Inc.
ex-Siebel, Oracle, ActivCard

Marc Trimuschat, VP Business Development at Silver Peak Systems, Inc.
ex-HDS, Brocade, Scale Eight, Silicon Graphics

Matt DiMaria, EVP and GM Roxio Products Group at Sonic Solutions
ex-Serena, Symantec

Doug McNary, CEO at VKernel
ex-Onaro, Motive, Tivoli, GE

Since our last post, there have been 112 executive moves at the companies we track, 56 Executives where added at 45 companies and 56 Executives where removed from 43 companies. For the full version of our weekly executive moves archive, please visit www.technames.com or call (925)831-2900.

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Top Ten for the week of 3/8/2010

In the past year or so since I started publishing the Pulse newsletter, I have recorded 5 executive additions to AOLs corporate executive page that have come from Google. The latest, David Eun was removed from Google's executive page two weeks ago and added to AOLs last week. Will this erupt into a rivaly like we saw with Microsoft / Google a couple of years ago? There were rumors back in 2008 that Google might acquire AOL. Could this be part of a plan to take AOL over in the future?

Top 10 Executive moves:
David Eun, President, AOL Media and Studios at America Online, Inc. / AOL LLC
ex-Google, Time Warner, NBC, Bain and Company

Jim Taschetta, SVP Brand Management at Blurb
ex-Visa, P&G, Coca-Cola, Yodlee, Bare Escentuals

John McHugh, VP and Chief Marketing Officer at Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
ex-Nortel, HP

Mauricio Quintana, CEO at Clipper Windpower, Inc.
ex-United Technologies, Cosentino, Booz Allen

Michael Ruffolo, President and CEO at Crossbeam Systems, Inc.
ex-Liquid Machines

Dan Maier, VP Marketing at DecisionView Software
ex-Tumbleweed Communications, Platinum Technology, ePeople, Expert Edge, Oracle

Jonathan Botter, VP Global Partnerships at FatWire Corporation
ex-RightNow, Quest Software,eMind

Joseph W. Waechter, President & CEO at Inertia Beverage Group
ex-DHL, Air Micronesia, California Pacific Capital

Thomas C. Lavey, EVP Sales at LibreDigital
ex-Taleo, Transcepta, Birst, Retail Solutions, Nimblefish

Michael J. Coyle, President Cardiac Rhythm Management Division at Medtronic, Inc.
ex-St. Jude

Since our last post, there have been 128 executive moves at the companies we track, 63 Executives where added at 46 companies and 65 Executives where removed from 48 companies. For the full version of our weekly executive moves archive, please visit www.technames.com or call (925)831-2900.

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Top Ten for the week of 3/1/2010

One thing that I found interesting about last week's executive moves was that, while we had one of the biggest move counts since we started the Pulse blog, this was the first week with no new CEOs added from external hires. There were CEOs that were removed from executive pages, but they were all replaced by internal promotions. Turnhere and Leapfrog both promoted someone that was previously on the executive team to CEO. I don't track title changes for the blog because it would end up being 20 pages long, but I do track them in my database.

Last week, NetStreams acquired by ClearOne. Tele Atlas North America acquired by TomTom. GotVoice was acquired by Spoken back in October 2009 and this week the executive page for GotVoice now contains all Spoken execs.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Frank Swain, VP Worldwide Sales at AppDynamics (FKA Singularity)
ex-Splunk, Makara

Anne Driscoll, VP and Chief of Staff at Ning, Inc.
ex-Google, GNX

Geoff Barrall, CTO and VP Engineering at Overland Storage, Inc.
ex-Data Robotics, BlueArc

Bob Schoettle, Chief Marketing Officer at Panasas, Inc.
ex-SenSage, Innopath, Qumu, Kelkea

John Adams, EVP Engineering and Operations at PGP Corporation
ex-GeoTrust, RSA, DEC

Lew Epstein, SVP Sales and Marketing at Quantum3D, Inc.
ex-Intergraph, Adobe, Logitech, AccelGraphics

Rene Pharisien, SVP WW Sales and Marketing at Sendmail, Inc.
ex-DecisionView, Niku, Kintera, Siebel, Epiphany, 3Com, Sequent Systems, Prime Computer

Michael Berry, EVP and CFO at SolarWinds, Inc.
ex-i2, Reynolds and Reynolds, Comdata

Steve Keilen, VP Marketing at Viridity Software
ex-Marathon Technologies, HP, Stratus

Walter Sharp, VP Worldwide Sales at Zilliant, Inc.
ex-Symantec, Ariba, Clarify

Since our last post, there have been 162 executive moves at the companies we track, 100 Executives where added at 61 companies and 62 Executives where removed from 46 companies. For the full version of our weekly executive moves archive, please visit www.technames.com or call (925)831-2900.

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Top Ten for the week of 2/22/2010

Lots of great additions this week. Google added 4 new executives to their Executive Page (not all listed in Top 10) and Juniper added two former Cisco Executives to theirs. I would add all of my executive moves to the Pulse blog, but it would get out of control really fast. In addition to tracking the Top 10 executive moves, we also track around 120 other executive moves (to and from) each week. All executive moves are available in our on-line database, TechnamesDB. If you are interested in capturing all executive moves at the companies you target, I would recommend checking out our on-line service.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Mark McMillan, VP Worldwide Sales and Marketing at BSquare Corporation
ex-Insignia, Phoenix

Michael Lock, VP Enterprise Sales at Google Inc.
promotion, ex-Facetime, Virage, Oracle

Tony Zingale, Interim CEO at Jive Software
ex-Mercury Interactive, Clarify

Manoj Leelanivas, EVP and GM Junos Ready Software (JRS) Business Group at Juniper Networks, Inc.
promotion, ex-Cisco

Tom A. Lacey, CEO at Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
ex-Applied Materials, Flextronics, IDW, Intel

Dave Hurwitz, VP Worldwide Marketing at Serena Software, Inc.
ex-Niku, ConsenSys, CA

Dave Rolston, CEO at SiPort Corporation
ex-Forterra, SGI, ATI 

Mark Shull, CEO at Trust Digital, Inc.
ex-VeriSign, MarkMonitor, Digex

Mark Gally, VP Marketing at VideoIQ
ex-Merced Systems, Siebel, MicroStrategy

Razi Sharir, CEO at Xeround, Inc.
ex-BMC, Microsoft

Since our last post, there have been 109 executive moves at the companies we track, 58 Executives where added at 43 companies and 51 Executives where removed from 36 companies. For the full version of our weekly executive moves archive, please visit www.technames.com or call (925)831-2900.

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