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Ex-Oracle SVP Miguel Milano Appointed President, EMEA At Salesforce.com

September 14, 2011 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

Salesforce.com, the well-known enterprise cloud computing company, today announced the appointment of Miguel Milano to the position of president, EMEA and executive vice president, EMEA sales.

He will report to Hilarie Koplow-McAdams, EVP, worldwide sales, Salesforce.com.

Milano was previously an executive at Oracle, where he served as SVP, head of European sales for Exadata and the leader of Oracle Direct, EMEA. Prior to Oracle, worked at companies such as McKinsey, i2, Telefonica and PeopleSoft.

Milano holds a degree in engineering from Polytechnic University of Catalonia as well as an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Former Salesforce.com Executive Peter Stern Joins OpSource

March 23, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Enterprise cloud and managed hosting company OpSource has expanded its management team, adding technology sales veteran Peter Stern as senior vice president, sales.

Previously vice president of enterprise corporate sales for Salesforce.com, Stern will focus on domestic and international sales initiatives, equipping his team to scale and grow the company.

Stern brings 14 years of technology sales and leadership experience to his position at OpSource. Stern assumes his role of senior VP, sales as incumbent Jon Beck shifts his focus solely to the indirect channel, assuming the role of senior VP, worldwide channels and alliances.

In his previous position at Salesforce, Stern was responsible for the west coast development and growth of the company’s new direct sales division.

Previously, Stern was regional manager of ISVs North America at Oracle where he was responsible for the management of a North American field sales organization evangelizing Oracle’s embedded infrastructure technology within the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) community.

OpSource provides the integration, engineering, marketing and sales support required to launch and scale cloud-based solutions. In 2009, the company introduced OpSource Cloud Hosting, a public cloud IaaS service offering pay-as-you-go flexibility, 100 percent availability as well as increased security, control and support for integration.

Salesforce.com Appoints Jeff Lautenbach As SVP Enterprise Commercial Sales, Americas

February 4, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com has appointed Jeff Lautenbach as senior vice president of enterprise commercial sales, Americas. Lautenbach reports to Hilarie Koplow-McAdams, executive vice president of sales, Salesforce.com.

Lautenbach joins Salesforce.com following a 20-year career at IBM. Most recently, he was responsible for its software business in the Western part of the U.S. where he led an organization of more than 1,000 professionals with software sales, technical, and architecture responsibilities focused on selling to the largest enterprises in the U.S. market.

Lautenbach earned a B.A. in Marketing from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and a MBA from the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois.