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
Since our last post, there have been
65 executive moves at the companies we track,
31 Executives where added at
25 companies and
34 Executives where removed from
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