• Cloud Wars: HP Poaches Salesforce Executive Mark Angelino

    Robin Wauters

    Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

    Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

    Mark Angelino, formerly vice president at IBM and President at Sprint, was responsible for the adoption of Salesforce’s sales, call center and platform services in North America from May 2009 until last month.

    As you can tell from the screenshot above, he left Salesforce.com in June to become Senior Vice President at another company, but he played coy and marked his new employer’s name ‘Guess Who!’.

    No need to guess any longer, in case you were interested: turns out Angelino has joined HP as SVP of Global Distribution for its roughly $54 billion Enterprise Business.

    Angelino will be responsible for managing HP’s relationships with ISVs, system integrators, managed services providers and channel partners for the business unit, which includes the technology giant’s portfolio of servers, storage, networking, software and services.

    Company: Hewlett-Packard
    Website: hp.com
    Launch Date: 1939
    IPO: NYSE:HPQ

    Hewlett-Packard technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA. HP is one of the world’s largest information technology companies and operates in nearly every country. HP specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing software and delivering services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, as well as a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. HP markets its products to households, small to medium size businesses and enterprises...

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    Company: Salesforce
    Website: salesforce.com
    Launch Date: 1999
    IPO: February 7, 2004, NYSE:CRM

    Salesforce is an enterprise cloud computing company that provides business software on a subscription basis. The company is best known for its on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. Salesforce was founded in 1999 by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, and went public in June 2004. Salesforce has been a pioneer in developing enterprise platforms through its innovative AppExchange directory of on-demand applications, and its Force.com “Platform as a Service” (PaaS) API for extending Salesforce.

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