New Hires and Top Read News Articles for August

New Hire Spotlight

Acquia Appoints Matt Kaplan

Earlier this month, digital experience company Acquia announced the appointment of Matt Kaplan as their new Senior Vice President of Product. He will be responsible for advancing Acquia’s portfolio of platform applications that power world-class digital experiences. Kaplan joins Acquia from LogMeIn, where he served as Chief Product Officer and General Manager of emerging products. Read More Here

Busy Month at Salesforce

Salesforce announced its appointment of Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Parker Harris to its Board of Directors. "Since our founding in 1999, Parker has been instrumental in driving Salesforce's innovation and shaping our culture," said Benioff. "I'm thrilled to welcome him to the board and look forward to his continued impact on the company."

"It's been a privilege to be part of Salesforce as we've revolutionized the software industry, built a world-class company culture and grown into a Fortune 500 company," said Harris. "I'm grateful and honored to join the Board of Directors."

Along with the appointment, Keith Block has been promoted to Co-CEO of Salesforce, Block served as Salesforce's Vice Chairman, President and as a Director since joining the company in June 2013, and most recently served as the company's COO since February 2016. "Keith has been my trusted partner in running Salesforce for the past five years, and I'm thrilled to welcome him as co-CEO," said Benioff. "Keith has outstanding operational expertise and corporate leadership experience, and I could not be happier for his promotion and this next level of our partnership."

"Salesforce's success is a testament to Marc's visionary leadership, which has created an unparalleled culture of trust, innovation and equality, as well as a relentless focus on customer success," said Block. "I'm honored to be co-CEO and to leverage each of our strengths as we lead Salesforce, our employees, customers and partners into the future."

Brad Burns also joined Salesforce as Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer. "Salesforce is one of the most admired companies in the world, and I’m so fortunate to work with this incredibly talented team,” said Burns. “I look forward to making a contribution to this next phase of Salesforce’s growth, commitment to corporate social responsibility and industry leadership." Brad joins Salesforce from AT&T, where he served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications for AT&T Communications.

“We are thrilled to welcome Brad as Chief Communications Officer,” said Benioff “Brad is the perfect fit to lead Salesforce communications through our next wave of growth, innovation and customer success.” Read More Here

Additions at Dropbox

Dropbox welcomes two world-class leaders to Product and Marketing. Adam Nash will be the new VP of Product. Nash spent his career creating and scaling products used by millions of customers. Previously, he was President and CEO of Wealthfront, a pioneer in automated financial advice. Most recently, he served as executive-in-residence at Greylock, where he worked with portfolio companies on strategy and business development. Adam will lead the charge in building products that empower customers to do their best work. He’ll be responsible for setting strategic product direction, serving as a user advocate, and continuing to build a world-class product management organization. 

Naman Khan also joins Dropbox as VP of Product Marketing and Global Campaigns. An accomplished marketing leader with experience across B2B and B2C marketing and sales. Naman has held leadership roles at companies such as Microsoft, where he led product marketing for Microsoft Office, and Autodesk, where he led B2C growth. Khan recently left Salesforce where he led product marketing and go-to-market strategy for Sales Cloud. Khan will lead Dropbox's development of user messaging, marketing content, demand generation, and go-to-market strategy. Read More Here

Ex-Googler Joins HubSpot

HubSpot has appointed Shahid Nizami as Managing Director of the Asia Pacific region. In his new role, Shahid will be responsible for HubSpot’s performance across Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and India, and will be based in HubSpot’s Singapore office, working closely with the teams based in both Singapore and Sydney. Before joining HubSpot, Shahid led the Account Management business for Google Cloud in APAC where he managed a team spread across six different locations.

“Shahid’s experience leading sales teams to drive new business, combined with his success in expanding an install base, is going to be key for HubSpot as we expand in APAC. Shahid brings a wealth of knowledge to HubSpot, which will have a huge impact on how we help our customers and partners to grow better in APAC and beyond. We’re incredibly excited to welcome him to the team,” said Jeetu Mahtani, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of International at HubSpot. Read More Here

Nintex Welcome Dustin Grosse

Dustin Grosse has joined Nintex as Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer. Grosse brings more than 25 years of technology management, strategy and marketing experience from previous leadership roles with Microsoft, DocuSign, McKinsey & Company, Procter & Gamble and other companies.
"Dustin is a cloud technology innovator, strategist and go-to-market expert who will inspire our team with his passion for business productivity improvements made possible by the Nintex Platform," said Nintex CEO Eric Johnson. "Many of us at Nintex have known and collaborated with Dustin for several years and believe that his marketing and corporate strategy acumen will help drive Nintex customer focus to further scale our success." Read More Here

BigCommerce Expands Leadership

Mark Adams has joined BigCommerce as Vice President and General Manager for Europe. Adams will lead the company’s international expansion throughout Europe, including day-to-day management of the company’s newly-opened office in London.

“Mark’s extensive domain expertise and familiarity with the European market will be invaluable as we explore avenues to maximize our service to customers and partners,” said Brent Bellm, CEO for BigCommerce. “As we begin to scale our first European office, I’m also confident that Mark’s leadership will ensure consistency with our values and vision to deliver the world’s best ecommerce platform globally for both B2C and B2B merchants.”

“BigCommerce’s customer-first approach, open SaaS model and commerce as a service initiatives make it the ideal choice for our merchants’ growth. I’m excited to serve our customers and partners throughout Europe and help accelerate their success,” said Adams.

Along with Adams, the company also appointed Deepak Anand as Director of European Business Development. A seasoned sales leader in ecommerce and payment technologies, Anand previously served as U.K. General Manager for ecommerce platform Shopware.

“BigCommerce believes in the power of community, and it’s this commitment to empowering partners to achieve more that makes it such a unique platform,” said Anand. “Digital transformation represents a massive opportunity for growth, and together with our partners, we can provide merchants the best-in-class technologies and services necessary to bring their brand vision to reality in a more globalised way.”  Read More Here

Leslie Stretch New CEO at Medallia

Medallia, the leading customer experience management cloud company, announced that Leslie Stretch has been named Medallia’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Medallia's Co-founder and former CEO Borge Hald will assume new roles of Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer while Co-founder and former President Amy Pressman will remain a Board Director and focus on writing and speaking about customer experience.

“The Medallia founders and their outstanding global team are leading the Customer Experience movement and this is the perfect time to join them,” said Leslie Stretch, President and CEO of Medallia. “Great forces have completely rewired the selling and buying processes in the 21st century. Medallia understands that power has transferred to customers, forever. Today, customers buy experiences not products, the world’s smartest companies know this and they use the Medallia Experience Cloud to deliver unprecedented returns. I couldn’t be more excited about our prospects,” continued Stretch. Read More Here

New Tokyo Office for Box

Box recently opened its new Tokyo office. Based in the heart of the city, Box has moved into the 15^th floor of the Tekko Building beside Tokyo Station. “We’re on a rapid international growth trajectory,” said Stephanie Carullo, COO of Box. “Japan is an important market for us and we’ve seen continued growth since our launch there in 2013. We’re committed to investing in the country as we help Japanese enterprises make the shift to the cloud for content management. As we move into a new, larger office space we will expand our presence in Tokyo and across Japan.” Read More Here

Top 5 Viewed Monthly News Round Up

1. Demand for content is increasing faster than marketers can produce it thanks to an ever-increasing need for more personalized content and the evolution of content marketing. Heidi Unruh of e-Sipirt takes a look at the future of Content Management in the Natural Language Generation. Read More Here

2. Gartner published the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management (MQ WCM) and Sitecore is thrilled to continue their run in the Leader’s quadrant for the ninth consecutive year, here's why. Read More Here

3. Acrolinx, the creator of the leading platform for strategy-aligned content creation, and Xyleme, the industry-leading learning content management solution have partnered to offer customers a more powerful authoring and reviewing process that enables them to create high-performing learning content at scale. Read More Here

4. Scrivito an award-winning pioneer in Web Content Management (CMS) technologies, announced general availability of the first serverless JavaScript-based CMS, offering the most reliable, cost-effective and secure CMS solution on the market. Read More Here

5. Brandfolder launches Smart CDN To help marketers, operations teams quickly serve content, apply changes, manage digital rights. Smart CDN functionality enables Brandfolder users to automatically update any asset and control usage rights, regardless of where it resides online. Read More Here