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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Top Ten for the week of 2/8/2010

Every week, I try to come up with something witty to say about the executive moves from the previous week. While there were a lot of interesting moves last week, I can't think of anything insightful to say. All of the Top 10 from last week should have an immediate and noticable impact at their new employers and seem to have records of success to bring to the table. Anadigics added great talent to their executive team with Mike Canonico and Greg White. Roku added a potential successor to their CEO with David Krall. Hopefully I will lose my writer's block next week.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Mike Canonico, VP Worldwide Sales at Anadigics, Inc.
ex-Cypress Semiconductor, Hitachi Semiconductor, Agere, Optium, Communicant Semiconductor

Greg White, SVP RF Products at Anadigics, Inc.
ex-AMD, Freescale, Motorola

Pirjo Tuomi, VP WW Sales at Aurora Networks, Inc.
new addition, ex-BigBand, ADC, Nortel

Jeffrey Fox, President / CEO at Convergys
ex-ALLTELL

Ron Longo, VP Sales, Marketing, and Support at Dilithium Networks Inc.
ex-Mahi Networks, AFC

Bill McLean, President and CEO at Ozmo Devices (FKA H-Stream Wireless)
ex-GloNav, Anadigm, Parthus

David Krall, President & COO at Roku, Inc.
ex-Qsecure, Avid

Vince Graziani, President and CEO at Sand 9, Inc.
ex-Sandburst, Intel

Christopher Reid, VP Sales at Truviso, Inc.
ex-Visual Sciences, Merant

Glenn Rhodes, VP Marketing and CMO at Unify Corporation
ex-CA, Symantec, Arkivio, HP, NCR

Since our last post, there have been 114 executive moves at the companies we track, 53 Executives where added at 45 companies and 61 Executives where removed from 50 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 2/1/2010

Last week, we had our largest number of Executive moves ever. I have no real explanation for this, we aren't tracking that many more companies than we were the previous week.

I noticed some interesting moves by former Microsoft executives with Christine Heckart joining NetApp and Debra Chrabaty joining Cisco. Two very senior Microsoft executives jumping ship. We'll keep our eyes open to see if there are more in the coming weeks.

Top 10 Executive moves:
John Calonico, CFO at Aster Data Systems, Inc.
ex-Interwoven, Autodesk, Blue Martini

Neil Cotty, Interim CFO at Bank of America Corporation
promotion

Debra Chrapaty, SVP and GM Collaboration Software Group at Cisco Systems, Inc.
ex-Microsoft, Organic, AllBusiness

Brian Barnum, EIR at Mayfield Fund
ex-Business.com, RHDi, rent.com

Kevin A. DeNuccio, CEO at MetaSwitch
ex-Redback, Cisco

Christine Heckart, Chief Marketing Officer at NetApp Inc. (Network Appliance)
ex-Microsoft, Juniper

Mark Lockareff, CEO at Paraccel, Inc.
ex-Apptera, Excite

Behrooz Parsay, SVP Engineering And Operations at SpiderCloud Wireless, Inc.
ex-Aperto, Ericsson, Lantern

Ronald Black, Chairman and CEO at Upek, Inc.
ex-Wavecom, Agere, Motorola

Scot McLernon, Chief Revenue Officer at YuMe Networks
ex-CBS, Upstream

Since our last post, there have been 164 executive moves at the companies we track, 77 Executives where added at 60 companies and 87 Executives where removed from 62 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 1/25/2010

I have been publishing the Pulse Blog for nearly 1 year and I always see names that we caught before and after press releases. I got an e-mail today announcing that Dean Mansfield was named CEO of Fonality. We caught this change last week! I am, of course, smiling. Last week was big for acquisitions. The amount of information that can be gathered simply from monitoring executive pages is amazing. Siperian was acquired by Informatica, corporate executive page now goes to Informatica’s page. Last week, Oracles completed their acquisition of Sun and now the Sun executive page goes to Oracle’s website. Ericsson completed their integration of Tandberg and now Tandberg’s website goes to Ericsson.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Patrick Ryan, Chairman and CEO at Broadlane, Inc.
ex-PolyMedica

Bill McCracken, Chairman and CEO at CA, Inc. (fka Computer Associates)
ex-IBM

Steve King, President and CEO at DocuSign, Inc.
ex-Virtela, Zantaz

Paul Rolls, SVP Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT)
ex-International Rectifier, Compaq

Richard (Rick) Faulk, President & CEO at Landslide Technologies, Inc.
ex-WebEx, Mzinga, IntraNets

Sean Moriarty, EIR at Mayfield Fund
ex-Ticketmaster, Citysearch

Sandeep Vij, President and CEO at MIPS Technologies, Inc.
ex-Cavium, Altera, Xilinx

Bill Pollie, VP Business Development at RightAnswers, Inc.
ex-Microsoft, SAP, Neocase Software

John Scaramuzzo, SVP and GM Storage Business Unit at Smart Modular Technologies (WWH), Inc.
ex-Seagate, Quantum

Kenneth Mcdonald, SVP Sales Engineering at Websense, Inc.
ex-Riverbed, Cisco

Since our last post, there have been 123 executive moves at the companies we track, 54 Executives where added at 41 companies and 69 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 1/18/2010

Things have stabalized and the number of additions / removals are staying consistent week after week this year. As with many of our readers, I am noticing many names that I have spoken with in the past. I recently worked on a CFO search and I contacted several of the CFOs on the recently added list for this Candidate Development project.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Kenneth A. Thomas, COO and CFO at AchieveGlobal Inc.
ex-Informa Support Services, Arthur Anderson

Wilson Leong, CTO and VP Manufacturing Operations at Akeena Solar,Inc.
ex-Applied Materials, KLA-Tencor

Fred Corsentino, SVP North America Sales at Exalt Communications, Inc.
ex-DEC, 3Com, US Robotics, Western Multiplex, Meru Networks

Dan Burkland, SVP Enterprise Sales & Business Development at Five9, Inc.
ex-Transera, Movius, Cisco

Dean Mansfield, CEO at Fonality, Inc.
ex-NetSuite, Brocade

Bob Komin, CFO at Linden Research, Inc. (Linden Lab)
ex-Tellme, Convergys

William (Bill) J. Brady, CEO at Mascoma Corporation
ex-Cabot

Kim Niederman, SVP Sales at NComputing
ex-Polycom, Cisco, FORE, Wang

Scott Gibson, CFO at Scintera Networks, Inc.
re-added

Perry Barth, CFO at Uplogix
ex-Borland, Cisco, NetSolve

Since our last post, there have been 120 executive moves at the companies we track, 63 Executives where added at 44 companies and 57 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 1/11/2010

Lots of great moves this week. 6 new CEOs added in the top 10. Since we started the Pulse back in March of last year, we have tracked over 3311 executive moves from executive team pages for the companies we track.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Allan Wallack, President and CEO at Akorri Networks, Inc.
ex-Spring Tide Networks, Chrysalis, Synernetics, COGNEX

Jue-Hsien Chern, CEO at ATopTech
ex-Mentor Graphics, Texas Instruments

Scott Deutsch, VP Worldwide Sales at AuthenTec, Inc.
ex-Alereon, Cypress

Scott Minick, President CEO at BIND BioScience
ex-Arch Venture Partners, SEQUUS

Jonathan Ladd, CEO at Brilliant Telecommunications, Inc.
ex-Hexagon AG, Thales Navigation, Magellan, Ashtech

Peter O’Sullivan, VP Sales at Buzzlogic Inc.
ex-Google, Geocities, Ziff Davis

Kevin Hickey, CEO at eEye Digital Security
ex-NetPro, Homebid.com, Viasoft

Dan Ross, CEO at Illume Software
ex-Maxis, Opiant, Open Market, PictureTel

Jim McDonnell, SVP Global Sales at Intermec, Inc.
ex-HP

Victor Neeley, VP Sales at Parascale, Inc.
ex-Axcient, Evault, MFN, NorthPoint, WinStar, Allnet

Since our last post, there have been 121 executive moves at the companies we track, 60 Executives where added at 44 companies and 61 Executives where removed from 47 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 1/4/2010

Lots of great executive moves over the past week. A huge change from the previouse 3 Holiday weeks. Hopefully this is a sign of good things to come for 2010!

Top 10 Executive moves:
Paul Burrin, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Accelrys, Inc.
ex-Chordiant, Hyperion, Oracle

David Mendels, President and COO at Brightcove
ex-Adobe, Macromedia

Mike Humphries, EVP Business Development at Clickability, Inc.
ex-Fairchild, Tymshare, Oracle, Vignette. Dorado

Andreas Biebl, VP Marketing at DECA
ex-eBay

Tim Thorsteinson, President and COO at Enablence Usa Networks Inc
ex-Harris, Leitch

John J. Greisch, President and CEO at Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc.
ex-Baxter, FleetPride, Interlake

Mark Tice, EVP Worldwide Sales at Mark Logic Corporation
ex-Oracle, Bridgestream, Business Objects

Anthony Holbrook, Interim President and CEO at MIPS Technologies, Inc.
ex-AMD, Fairchild, Computer Microtechnology

Camillo Martino, CEO at Silicon Image, Inc.
ex-SAI, Zoran Cornice

Charles Coulson, VP Business Development at SugarCRM, Inc.
ex-Parature, SAP, Salesforce, Oracle

Since our last post, there have been 157 executive moves at the companies we track, 63 Executives where added at 49 companies and 94 Executives where removed from 74 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 12/28/2009

Another slow week for executive moves... The past 3 weeks combined were less than most "normal" weeks.

Over the Holidays, I made some major changes to our on-line TechnamesDB service. I improved the search function and added some really cool new features. Check out our support page this week to see the new training videos.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Ron Pasek, SVP and CFO at Altera Corporation
ex-Sun

Eran Gorev, CEO and President at Alvarion, Inc
ex-NICE, Amdocs, DEC

Brian Chisholm, VP Business Development at Apptera
ex-Overture, Claria, Yahoo!

John Hamill, VP WW Sales at Asetek Inc.
ex-nVidia, AMD

Bob Suffern, SVP and CTO at Commscope, Inc.
ex-Andrew, Flarion

Rhonda Johnson, VP Operations at Ignite Technologies
ex-ACS, Hotels.com, Concentra, RealPage

Nadeem Syed, SVP Worldwide Product Management & Engineering at SumTotal Systems, Inc.
ex-Oracle

Bulent Ozayaz, GM VeriFone Media Solutions at VeriFone Holdings, Inc.
ex-Lipman Electronic Engineering

Bennett Barouch, VP Engineering at Yodlee, Inc.
ex-Palamida, iPass, Comergent

Thomas Hempel, VP Technology at Yodlee, Inc.
ex-NetApp, Epiphany

Since our last post, there have been 56 executive moves at the companies we track, 15 Executives where added at 11 companies and 41 Executives where removed from 30 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 12/21/2009

Extremely light activity this week, not suprising. Out of the nearly 3,000 companies we track, there were only 11 total additions. Below are 10 of them...

Top 10 Executive moves:
Surra Yanamadala, VP Solutions Engineering at Arcot Systems, Inc.
ex-Netli

Joel Hackney, SVP & President, Government and Data Solutions at Avaya Inc.
ex-Nortel

Henry Samueli, SVP and CTO / Co-founder at Broadcom Corporation
new addition

Jim Axford, VP Sales at Magor Corporation
ex-Bell Canada, BCI, Nortel, Samsung, Meriton

Chris Charlebois, CFO at Magor Corporation
ex-Deloitte

Ken Davison, VP Marketing at Magor Corporation
ex-Siemens AG, Newbridge

Todd DeLaughter, CEO at mFormation Technologies, Inc.
ex-Opalis, HP

Sharon McIndoe, Sr Director Global Customer Care at Micro Focus (Us), Inc.
ex-Federal Express, Rank Xerox

Tom Kelly, CEO at nGenera Corporation
ex-Cirrus Logic, Epicor, MontaVista

Joe Hyrkin, EIR at Trinity Ventures
ex-Gaia Interactive, Yahoo, Flickr

Since our last post, there have been 27 executive moves at the companies we track, 11 Executives where added at 8 companies and 16 Executives where removed from 16 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 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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