Top Ten for the week of 2/15/2010

One clear sign that my Pulse Crawler is working, nearly all of the Top 10 for the week of 2/15 were previously tracked as Executive page removals over the past couple of weeks. As we track more and more companies, I expect the percentage of the moves we catch on both ends will go up. We also capture many acquisitions, mergers and Chapter 11s.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Christine Crandell, SVP Marketing at Accept Software
ex-Egenera, Ariba, SAP, Oracle, Price Waterhouse

Michael Small, President & CEO at Aircell
ex-360 Communications, Centennial Communications

Joe Flanagan, SVP Worldwide Operations and Supply Chain at Applied Materials, Inc.
ex-Nortel

John Zicker, CEO at CrossLoop Inc.
ex-Sana Security, Sagent

Tom Ebling, President and CEO at Demandware, Inc.
ex-ProfitLogic, Torrent Systems, Lattice Engines

Jeff Williams, VP Sales & Business Development at FireEye Inc.
ex-Ironport, Intruvert, Abeona Networks, Globalcenter

Greg Winner, CEO at GainSpan Corporation
ex-ZeroG, AMCC

Thomas Dignan, VP Engineering at ReputationDefender, Inc.
ex-Hands On Mobile, Yahoo!, Earthlink and Excite

Bert Bruggeman, CEO at SVTC Technologies, Inc. (Silicon Valley Technology Center)
promotion, ex-MEMC, Cypress, Silicon Light Machines

Jay Zimmet, EVP Global Sales at Xceedium, Inc.
ex-Verizon Business

Since our last post, there have been 101 executive moves at the companies we track, 57 Executives where added at 42 companies and 44 Executives where removed from 33 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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Tough week for selecting which executive move to highlight, but I went with John Schappert, the new COO over at EA. John founded Tiburon Entertainment in 1994 at age 20 and in 1998 Tiburon was acquired by EA. Tiburon is the studio behind EA's Madden NFL, NCAA Football and Tiger Woods games. John left EA in 2007 to join Microsoft as Corporate VP Interactive Entertainment LIVE, Software and Services Business, responsible for the Xbox. John left Microsoft after 2 years to rejoin EA as COO. John has an impressive career for someone so young. I would not be surprised to see CEO of EA somewhere in his future.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Jim Comstock, VP Business Development at Akorri Networks, Inc.
ex-NetApp

Alton J. Dinsmore, VP Development at ANTs Software Inc.
ex-Oracle

Kurt Trampedach, VP Worldwide Sales at DiVitas Networks
ex-Sycamore, Alcatel-Lucent

John Schappert, COO at Electronic Arts Inc.
ex-Microsoft, EA

Gerri Elliott, VP Strategic Alliances at Juniper Networks, Inc.
ex-Microsoft, IBM

Jeff Jones, Director Product Marketing at Pixim, Inc.
ex-LSI

Peter Carson, SVP Worldwide Sales at Purewave Networks, Inc.
ex-Webex

Valerie Barish Williams, VP Human Resources at Siperian, Inc.
ex-BEA, Walt Disney

John Kealey, CEO at Vivísimo, Inc.
ex-iDirect, TenFold

Greg Winner, CEO at ZeroG Wireless, Inc.
ex-u-Nav, Atheros

Since our last post, there have been 53 executive moves at the companies we track, 31 Executives where added at 21 companies and 22 Executives where removed from 20 companies. For the full version of our weekly executive moves archive, please visit www.technames.com or call (925)831-2900.

The Technames Pulse has been created purely for entertainment. We make no recommendations or endorsements of any kind and comments made within the Pulse should not be considered recommendations or endorsements.