Top Ten for the week of 9/28/09
This week, I noticed that we have been following 8 of the Top 10 since the '90s. We've actually been following Tom Surrette since 1992, when he was a Test Engineer at Cypress, which was the first year that we started developing our research database. There are some really great moves this week but I am highlighting the move by Mike Stankey, the new President and COO over at Workday. Workday, led by Peoplesoft founder Dave Duffield, continues to solidify their team with former Peoplesoft executives. 8 of their 10 executives listed are ex-Peoplesoft. Duffield spent years and millions of dollars putting together a very successful team at Peoplesoft, it makes sense to build another company using the same team. I've been watching Workday for years now, waiting to see if Duffield can mirror the success he had at Peoplesoft. I've been told that Dave lives a mile or so from my office but I have not yet been invited over for coffee.
Top 10 Executive moves:
Chris Gahagan, SVP Products at Avid Technology, Inc.
ex-EMC
Marten Mickos, EIR at Benchmark Capital
ex-MySQL
Tom Surrette, EVP Human Resources at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
promotion
Derek Rudd, SVP Sales at Double Fusion Inc.
ex-IGN
Patrick Quirk, President and CFO at Emptoris, Inc.
ex-GoldenGate, i2, Peoplesoft
Bob Hoyt, SVP Strategic Alliances at Endeca Technologies Inc.
ex-Dirig, SSA
Ed Sterbenc, VP Corporate Sales at Modius, Inc.
ex-Digital Fuel, Sylantro, SharkRack
Walter Havenstein, CEO at SAIC, Inc. (Science Applications International Corp.)
x- COO BAE Systems; x-Raytheon
Liam McGee, Chairman and CEO at The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
ex-BofA
Mike Stankey, President and COO at Workday, Inc.
ex-Peoplesoft, Polyserve
Since our last post, there have been
129 executive moves at the companies we track,
57 Executives where added at
43 companies and
72 Executives where removed from
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