FIO Picks Former TMS President Woody Hutsell as New Senior Director

Who saw that coming?
Learn more about Woody here:  http://appicu.com/about-me/

Congrats Dave Kellogg: SVP Salesforce Service Cloud

Important New Report: Your Career and Alcohol

Get to know Pinaki Mukerji: Queplix EVP & Chief Product Officer

Pinaki Mukerji
Queplix EVP & Chief Product Officer

Pinaki Mukerji has more than 20 years experience in the software industry and delivered many market leading products. He joined Informatica in 1995, at a very early stage of the company. Over the past 15 years, Pinaki played a pivotal role in growing Informatica from $0 MM in revenue in 1995 to $650MM revenue at the end of 2010. Over the years, Pinaki built a highly talented engineering team spanning multiple geography and grew the product portfolio. Pinaki is responsible for the Informatica Platform Technology and the Data integration product.

As Chief Product Officer at Queplix, he is responsible for managing our engineering team and guiding the company’s technology development. Mukerji joins Queplix from his most recent position as Senior Vice President, Platform Technology R&D at Informatica®, Inc. (INFA). While at Informatica® Mukerji was one of the key driving forces behind many of their key product initiatives.

“Pinaki did a brilliant job at Informatica® and I expect he will do even more at Queplix,” said Mark Cashman, chief executive officer for Queplix. “There is no executive with more relevant experience than Pinaki. Our platform delivers an open, business user ready, enterprise platform for data integration and data management. Pinaki pioneered many early data integration successes with Informatica® and he is supremely qualified to lead our product vision forward.”

“The Queplix platform for cloud and on-premise is an industry first.  Business users are now empowered to bring projects from concept to deliverable without IT programmers,” said Mukerji.  “Advanced data virtualization is the future.  It is a game changing technology for the data integration world.  It reduces cost and risk and enables performance more than any other technology or architecture.  I am extremely pleased and excited to join the company at such a critical time in the company’s evolution.”

My First Job in Silicon Valley: AGILIS

 

Thank you John, Ken, and Ram!

Fusion-io CFO Dennis Wolf — Some Background

In general, I think it’s interesting how some things stay with us and other things fall away.  Dennis Wolf is the real deal — here is some additional data you should know:

Wolf has over 25 years of experience managing finance and operations for high-growth technology companies. Prior to joining MySQL AB, he was managing director and CFO of Hercules Technology Growth Capital, a provider of debt and equity growth capital to technology and life sciences companies. While there, he took the company public on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Previously, Wolf held CFO and senior executive positions at Omnicell, Redback Networks and Credence Systems Corporation. He has also served in executive management roles at Sun Microsystems and Apple Computer. He currently sat on the boards of Vitria Technology and Komag (Vitria was taken private and Komag was acquired by Western Digital).

SFH in Brooklyn PARK SLOPE / PROSPECT PARK / WINDSOR PARK

One of my colleagues is moving back to the Bay Area to take a MAJOR-LEAGUE job and he is selling his townhouse in Brooklyn.  88 Prospect Park SW is the perfect location for young family — walk everywhere and 10-minute commute to Wall Street.

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Keeping Momentum In Your Job Search: PART VIII

Try Something Different

The saying goes “insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Has your job search looked the same for the whole time you’ve been doing it? You send resumes by email. You check job boards & apply to jobs. You email recruiters to ask if there’s anything new. Are you going to new networking events? Are you doing volunteer work? Are you reading the trade rags and then making calls to people about the deals they’ve done? Are you teaching something or writing about it? Diversify your skills, your network and revive your passion about something so it can rub off on your job search. Don’t be like Sisyphus rolling the same stone up the same hill day after day, it robs you of your enthusiasm which is critical to your success.

Thanks again to Denise Palmieri from Pinnacle Group International

Do You Need A Free Pass to DREAMFORCE?

I’m going to be at SC09 so I won’t be able to make the big SALESFORCE.COM DREAMFORCE conference. Let me know if you need a pass…

Keeping Momentum In Your Job Search: PART VII

Anticipate Rejection and Use it to Assess Your Skills

I make lots of calls each day where I learn that the firm isn’t yet ready to engage a recruiter, or they’ve decided to recruit on their own, or they’ve engaged another recruiter. It’s ok. While I’d rather that every call or meeting turned into a new search assignment, I’m realistic and I don’t take rejection personally. But, I do ask for candid feedback from each person I interact with about how I can improve what I’m doing. I’m also realistic that not everyone is comfortable giving candid feedback, so each day I compile a list of things I’ve learned, guessed are a problem or I may need to mull over to improve my success. At the end of the week, I review it to see any commonalities, places I can improve or ways to alter what I’m looking for. I ask myself a 3 part question at the end of each week and I write out the answers: What did I do well this week? (Hint: do more of that next week!) What could I have done better this week? What did I waste time on? Find a way to NOT do that next week when you’re making your plan.

Likewise, you should be undertaking a regular review of your skills (including your personality, interests and values), how they fit for each firm you are approaching and whether you should be broadening the type of opportunities (or industries) where your skills could apply. This process of refining your understanding of how you “fit” or if you don’t is critical to your success. There are lots of skills assessment tools on the web or in books, make sure you’re regularly setting aside time to think about how you can use what you know in a different industry or position.

Thanks again to Denise Palmieri from Pinnacle Group International