For my first Top Ten Executive moves blog post, I am highlighting Art Swift. There are many reasons that I chose Art Swift to highlight this week. First (but certainly not the most important), in our research database that we have been using since 1992, it took us a little while to figure out that we needed a “creation date” field. So, any record in my database without a creation date is very old and cherished here at Technames. Art’s record is the only one of this batch that does not have a creation date, which means that we have been tracking his career since 1992-1994. Second, I have actually spoken to Art (one of the thousands of recruiter calls that he has gotten in his career, so he probably doesn’t remember me) and I remember him being an extremely nice guy. Finally, in my opinion, Art will do a great job at MIPS and they are lucky to have him. He has 5 years of experience as CEO, perhaps this is in his future at MIPS? Only time will tell.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Stephen (Steve) Andrade, CEO at DecisionView Software
ex-Siebel

Eric Gold, VP Worldwide Sales at Devicescape Software, Inc.
ex-Gigaspaces, Vitria, Forte

Bruce Miller, CTO and VP Engineering at Force10 Networks, Inc.
ex-Alcatel

Henry Wasik, President and CEO at Force10 Networks, Inc.
Previously CEO, Turin Networks

John Monson, VP Marketing at Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
Former VP Marketing - Scintera

Art Swift, VP Marketing at MIPS Technologies, Inc.
Former CEO - Transmeta

Jim Witham, President & CEO at Neoconix, Inc.
Former CEO - Fultec

Paul Pedevillano, CFO at Permabit, Inc.
Former CFO - Authoria

Don Beck, SVP & GM SaaS Business Unit at Webroot Software, Inc.
Former EVP Sales - Postini

Elisa Steele, SVP Corporate Marketing at Yahoo! Inc.
Firmer SVP - NetApp


Since our last post, there have been 37 Executives added to the executive pages at 28 of the companies we track and 79 Executives 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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