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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