Wednesday’s Whispers: The Word On The Street – January 2009
Posted By R "Ray" Wang On January 14, 2009 @ 00:01 In Batenborch International,CIO Magazine,CMP Media,Dun & Bradstreet,Enterprise apps strategy,Esteban Kolsky,Forrester Research,Heidrick and Struggles,Hewitt Associates,IDG Japan,Infor,Infovide-Matrix,Jeff Abbott,Jun Kawahara,Kaj van de Loo,Kennedy Consulting,Kevin Maddock,Kyung Yoon,Market-4-Business,Nadina Talukdar,NetApp,nVidia,Oracle,R "Ray" Wang;,Reed Elsevier,Renee Boucher Ferguson,rimini street,SaaS,SAP,sina.com,SST,Talent Age Associates,Wednesday's Whispers | 3 Comments
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PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES*
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Jeff Abbott [2], Oracle [2]‘s former Vice President for Global Accelerate Strategy and Programs has left and joined Infor [3]. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Abbott held senior positions at Accenture, Saturn Corporation, International Paper and Georgia-Pacific in operations, logistics, sales and strategy.
Fion Cheok [4] was promoted from Assistant Manager to Manager, BAS at Ernst & Young [5]in September 2008.
Patryk Choros [6] is now Business Intelligence Director at Infovide-Matrix [7]. He formerly served as the Financial Sector Manager for BI solutions at Infovide-Matrix, a leading system integrator headquartered in Poland.
Jasmin Dave [8] is now Sales Manager for Nvision at NVIDIA [9]. She was previously a Global Sales Manager for Events at CMP Media, [10]
Renee Boucher Ferguson [11] became Sr. Research Analyst at Kennedy Consulting Research and Advisory [12] in October 2008. Her previous roles include serving as a Senior Writer at Ziff Davis Enterprise
Madhu Ghosh [13] was promoted at Dun & Bradstreet [14] from Assistant Vice President for Business Development for Customer Solutions to Assistant Vice President for Program Management and Product Strategy for Global Analytics Products.
Jun Kawahara [18] became Editor-in-Chief, CIO Magazine Japan for IDG Japan, Inc. [19] in October 2008. Jun previously served as the Editor-in-Chief of IDG’s sister publication, Computerworld Japan.
Sonja Lemmen [20] left Forrester Research [21] to join Batenborch International [22]as aBusiness Consultant. She previously served as a Sales Executive.
Janey Lien [23] is now HR Manager at SST [24]. Janey has served many senior roles in HR for companies such as NetApp [25], Sina.com [26], and Hewitt Associates [27].
Kevin Maddock [28] has joined Rimini Street [29]‘s Executive Team as the Senior Vice President of Global Sales. Prior to joining Rimini Street, Maddock served as executive vice president of worldwide inside sales and operations for ServiceSource [30] and as the Vice President of worldwide support service sales at PeopleSoft, Inc
Alexandre Mesquita de Carvalho [31] is now Senior Sales Engineer at SalesForce.com
Kelli Oliveri [32] has been promoted from Director of Analyst Relations to Senior Director, Analyst Relations for Oracle [33] Services. Former roles include serving as a Vice President and Managing Partner, Market Research and Strategy Services at Market-4-Business [34].
Laurie Sullivan [35] became Reporter at Mediapost, Online Media Daily [36] in October 2008
Nadina Talukdar [37] became the Head of Worldwide Analyst Relations at TIBCO [38] Software Inc. in September 2008. Previous experiences include serving as the Director of Analyst Relations at BEA and product marketing and alliance roles at both Sun [39] and Oracle [40].
Simon Trudelle [41] has left Augeo Software, joining a French SaaS company next week..
Doug Topken [42] has left Dun & Bradstreet [14] and has become a Vice President for Business Relationship Management at Reed Elsevier [43].
Navi Radjou [44] leaves Forrester for Cambridge University [45] after a decade of being a star analyst in technology. Navi will serve as the Executive Director of the Cambridge Center for Indian Business and move from San Francisco to London, UK.
Kaj van de Loo [46] rejoined SAP [47] in December as an SVP in the Office of the CTO. Kaj was the former VP of Engineering at Questra [48] and was a VP for Market Development Engineering at SAP Labs.
Melissa Wilkinson [49] became Senior Program Manager- Tech Industry Consulting at Forrester Research [50] in July 2008
Kyung Yoon, [51] the former Vice Chairman of Heidrick and Struggles [52] has joined Talent Age Associates as its CEO.
CORPORATE WHISPERS
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- RIF’s have come and may continue to come from the major tech vendors such as HP, Infor, Lawson, Oracle, SAP, and Sun.
- Most tech companies have placed hiring freezes.
- Recent issues with Satyam may cause a chain reaction in the IT services industry with consolidation at the forefront.
- Many tech vendors are waiting for the Obama spending bills to pass and expect the stimulus to pick up late in Q3 2009.
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[2] Jeff Abbott: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/Spokespeople/016390
[3] Infor: http://www.infor.com
[4] Fion Cheok: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=14503156&authToken=98Xw&authType=name&snapshotID=57773113&trk=mh_pup&goback=%2Enus_lastWeek_false
[5] Ernst & Young : http://www.ey.com
[6] Patryk Choros: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=670675&authToken=p5BY&authType=name&snapshotID=57899409&trk=mh_pup&goback=%2Enus_lastWeek_false
[7] Infovide-Matrix: http://www.infovidematrix.pl/en/
[8] Jasmin Dave: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=2122502&authToken=3Efp&authType=name&snapshotID=56305336&trk=mh_pup&goback=%2Ehom%2Enus_lastWeek_false
[9] NVIDIA: http://www.nvidia.com
[10] CMP Media,: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/3929/CMP+Media?trk=pp_icon&goback=%2Ehom%2Enus_lastWeek_false
[11] Renee Boucher Ferguson: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=3256339&authToken=tVpe&authType=name&snapshotID=57695659&trk=mh_pup&goback=%2Enus_lastWeek_false
[12] Kennedy Consulting Research and Advisory: http://www.kennedyinfo.com/home?C=lFmRzvKsdXjfpGN
[13] Madhu Ghosh: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=9907541&authToken=kE1B&authType=name&snapshotID=57714930&trk=mh_pup&goback=%2Enus_lastWeek_false
[14] Dun & Bradstreet: http://www.dnb.com
[15] Forrester Research: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/4124/Forrester+Research?trk=pp_icon&goback=%2Ehom%2Enus_lastWeek_false
[16] IDG: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/3731/IDG?trk=pp_icon&goback=%2Ehom%2Enus_lastWeek_false
[17] see less…: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=2122502&authToken=3Efp&authType=name&snapshotID=56305336&trk=mh_pup&goback=%2Ehom%2Enus_lastWeek_false#
[18] Jun Kawahara: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=14865118&authToken=b6Ai&authType=name&snapshotID=57950469&trk=mh_pup&goback=%2Enus_lastWeek_false
[19] IDG Japan, Inc.: http://www.idg.co.jp/
[20] Sonja Lemmen: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/2/824/13a
[21] Forrester Research: http://forrester.com
[22] Batenborch International : http://www.batenborch.com/?q=home
[23] Janey Lien: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/471/425
[24] SST: http://www.sst.com/
[25] NetApp: http://netapp.com
[26] Sina.com: http://sina.com
[27] Hewitt Associates: http://hewitt.com
[28] Kevin Maddock: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/6a1/321
[29] Rimini Street: http://riministreet.com/news.php?id=766
[30] ServiceSource: http://www.servicesource.com/
[31] Alexandre Mesquita de Carvalho: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=301392&authToken=ZR5M&authType=name&snapshotID=56308583&trk=mh_pup&goback=%2Ehom%2Enus_lastWeek_false
[32] Kelli Oliveri: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=6257085&authToken=zQZb&authType=name&snapshotID=57693098&trk=mh_pup&goback=%2Enus_lastWeek_false
[33] Oracle: http://oracle.com
[34] Market-4-Business: http://www.market4business.com/
[35] Laurie Sullivan: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=2116109&authToken=JOV7&authType=name&snapshotID=58081760&trk=mh_pup&goback=%2Enus_thisWeek_false
[36] Mediapost, Online Media Daily: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/30210?goback=%2Enus_thisWeek_false
[37] Nadina Talukdar: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=851362&authToken=Jb9o&authType=name&snapshotID=57396308&trk=mh_pup&goback=%2Enus_thisWeek_false
[38] TIBCO: http://www.tibco.com
[39] Sun: http://www.sun.com
[40] Oracle: http://www.oracle.com
[41] Simon Trudelle: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=449182&trk=mh_stat&goback=%2Enus_lastWeek_false
[42] Doug Topken: http://www.linkedin.com/in/topken
[43] Reed Elsevier: http://www.reed-elsevier.com/Pages/Home.aspx
[44] Navi Radjou: http://www.forrester.com/rb/search/results.jsp?N=0&Ntk=MainSearch&Ntx=mode+MatchAllPartial&s=1&Ntt=navi+radjou
[45] Cambridge University: http://www.cam.ac.uk/
[46] Kaj van de Loo: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=5069&authToken=Gc62&authType=name&snapshotID=55913739&trk=mh_pup&goback=%2Ehom%2Enus_twoWeeksAgo_false
[47] SAP: http://www.sap.com
[48] Questra: http://www.questra.com
[49] Melissa Wilkinson: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=2249802&authToken=FC5z&authType=name&snapshotID=56437402&trk=mh_pup&goback=%2Ehom%2Enus_lastWeek_false
[50] Forrester Research: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/4124?goback=%2Ehom%2Enus_lastWeek_false
[51] Kyung Yoon,: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1143678&authToken=_7gD&authType=name&snapshotID=57920033&trk=mh_pup&goback=%2Enus_lastWeek_false
[52] Heidrick and Struggles: http://www.heidrick.com/default.aspx
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