There were a lot of great moves this week. The most interesting to me is Judy Lin, the new Chief Product Officer at Silver Spring Networks. Judy was previously SVP Ethernet Switching Technology Group at Cisco, a pretty high profile job at the undisputed leader in their space. Silver Spring is developing utility networking technologies for the "Smart Grid". For those of you that are unfamiliar with the Smart Grid, it is the next big thing (some say bigger than the Internet). Basically, we will be "networking" our power grid and everyone out there wants in. Google, HP, Cisco, Siemens, Microsoft etc., basically every major player is trying to get a piece or all of it. Silver Spring is developing technology that could be a part of it and someone like Judy leaving Cisco to join Silver Spring gives it credibility. My bet is that Silver Spring is acquired within the next 2-3 years (if they can develop something that looks promising).

Top Ten Executive Moves

Top 10 Executive moves:
Mike Clark, VP Worldwide Sales and Technical Services at Airvana, Inc.
ex-JDSU, Acterna, Agilent

Jon Brod, EVP AOL Ventures at America Online, Inc. / AOL LLC
ex-Patch, IAC

Mike Rogers, SVP Sales at Goodmail Systems, Inc.
ex-D&B, Knight-Ridder

Stuart Gold, VP Field, Customer, and Partner Marketing at Responsys.com
ex-Omniture

Amy Cappellanti-Wolf, VP HR at Silver Spring Networks
ex-Cisco

Judy Lin, Chief Product Officer at Silver Spring Networks
ex-Cisco

Chuck Dietrich, CEO at SlideRocket
ex-Salesforce

Barbara D. Stinnett, President at SumTotal Systems, Inc.
ex-i2, Sybase

Dave Cote, President and CEO at Symmetricom, Inc.
ex-Packeteer, IDT

Mark Egan, VP/ CIO at VMWare, Inc.
ex-Symantec


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