Top Ten for the week of 12/14/2009

Keeping it short for the end of December. I am guessing that the activity will be low for the Holidays. Looks like AOL snagged two more Google Execs.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Long Fu, VP Engineering at Aerohive Networks, Inc.
ex-Infoblox, Alcatel, BNR, Ciena

Margaret Randazzo, CFO at Akeena Solar,Inc.
ex-Arthur Andersen, Knight Ridder, McClatchy

Jared Grusd, SVP Business Development at America Online, Inc. / AOL LLC
ex-Google, Capgemini

Maureen Sullivan, Chief of Staff at America Online, Inc. / AOL LLC
ex-Google

Robert Soderbery, SVP / GM Ethernet Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems, Inc.
ex-Symantec, Veritas, Adaptec

Tom Buiocchi, CEO at Data Robotics, Inc.
ex-Panasas, Brocade

Ryan Trayers, VP Engineering CTO at Escapia, Inc.
ex-Expedia

Jean-Yves Dexmier, Chairman and CEO at LookSmart, Ltd.
ex-Agentis, Octel, Air Liquide

Mark Roenigk, COO at Rackspace Hosting, Inc.
ex-Intuit

John Scumniotales, VP Products at Verdiem Corp.
ex-Serena Software, Pacific Edge

Since our last post, there have been 95 executive moves at the companies we track, 52 Executives where added at 39 companies and 43 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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I chose Jan Soderstrom, the new VP and CMO at SunPower, to highlight a trend that I have been noticing. As we track more and more Green companies, I am seeing a significant number of previous high tech executives crossing over into the green space. Jan has had a long career in both high tech and consumer companies. While she has been consulting for Sunpower since 2002, her addition to the Executive team at SunPower this week highlights the trend. Maybe I will put together a post with my top 10 green company crossovers one of these days.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Peter Slocum, VP Engineering at 3PAR Inc.
ex-Brocade

Saeid Ghafouri, COO at CoWare, Inc.
ex-Magma Design

Jim Scullion, CEO at DecisionView Software
ex-Tumbleweed

Matthew Powell, President and CEO at Fat Spaniel Technologies Inc.
ex-Determina, Q-layer

Bill Gossman, CEO at hi5 Networks
ex-EIR Mohr Davidow

Tom Buiocchi, Chief Marketing Officer at Panasas, Inc.
ex-Brocade

John Pierson, VP Sales and Marketing at Success Metrics / Birst
ex-Hyperion

Jan Soderstrom, VP and CMO at SunPower, Inc
ex-3com

Staffan Pehrson, President, TANDBERG Television at Tandberg Television
ex-Ericsson

Doug Klein, VP Product Marketing at ViVu
ex-Vernier, NCD

Since our last post, there have been 102 executive moves at the companies we track, 48 Executives where added at 39 companies and 54 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.

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.