Plumtree Software Hires Oracle Executive Paul Ciandrini as Chief Operating Officer
March 16 2004 - 8:27AM
PR Newswire (US)
Plumtree Software Hires Oracle Executive Paul Ciandrini as Chief
Operating Officer SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software today announced the hiring
of Paul Ciandrini as chief operating officer, responsible for
worldwide sales, consulting, marketing, product management, channel
and business development. Mr. Ciandrini, most recently Oracle
Corporation's senior vice president of North American application
sales, will report to Plumtree CEO and President John Kunze. "We
are delighted to have Paul join us as chief operating officer, and
believe his leadership will be a key driver in a new stage of
growth for the company," Mr. Kunze said. "As we compete to become
the leading framework for building and managing service-oriented
applications, Paul's experience in applications sales, channel
development and strategic alliances will be invaluable." Under Mr.
Ciandrini's leadership, Oracle's North American Applications Sales
Organization grew its application sales revenue by 43% year over
year. Prior to his work at Oracle, Mr. Ciandrini managed
BearingPoint's high technology practice and then served as group
executive vice president for product services consulting, with
responsibilities for over $700 million in annual revenue and a seat
on BearingPoint's executive committee. While at BearingPoint,
formerly known as KPMG Consulting, Mr. Ciandrini also led corporate
development, structuring a billion-dollar equity investment and
alliance with Cisco, and a hosting joint venture with Qwest. Mr.
Ciandrini has also worked as vice president of marketing for Walker
Interactive Systems, positioning the company through its initial
public offering. "I am very excited about joining Plumtree, as the
company's products and customers are outstanding," said Mr.
Ciandrini. "I think we have a great opportunity to be a leader in
delivering practical business value from service-oriented
applications." About Plumtree Software Plumtree Software is the
Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create a
comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners
across the enterprise to interact with different systems and work
together. Plumtree's Enterprise Web solution consists of
integration products for bringing resources from traditional
systems together on the Web, shared services such as collaboration,
content management and search for building new Web applications,
and a portal platform for delivering these Web applications to
broad audiences. Plumtree's independence and its Web Services
Architecture allow this solution to span rival platforms and
systems, helping maximize customers' return on their existing
technology investments. With offices in more than a dozen
countries, Plumtree has licensed over 575 customers, including
Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.
For more information, visit Plumtree on the Web at
http://www.plumtree.com/. NOTE: Plumtree is a registered trademark
of Plumtree Software, Inc.and its subsidiaries in the US and other
countries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this
document are the sole property of their respective owners. Safe
Harbor Caution Regarding Forward Looking Statements This press
release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of
the Federal Securities laws. These forward-looking statements
include, but are not limited to statements regarding the potential
impact of executive personnel and the Company's prospects for
growth. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements
involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ, perhaps materially, from those anticipated or suggested by
such forward looking statements. These risks and uncertainties
include those other risks and uncertainties contained in the
Company's Annual Report filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission ("SEC") on Form 10-K, its most recent 10-Q and all
subsequent SEC filings. Copies of filings made with the SEC are
available through the SEC's electronic data gathering analysis
retrieval system (EDGAR) at http://www.sec.gov/. We undertake no
obligation following the date of this release to update or revise
our forward-looking statements or to update the reasons actual
results could differ materially from those anticipated in
forward-looking statements. We caution you not to place undue
reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only
as of the date such statements are made. We cannot guarantee any
future operating results, activity, performance or achievement.
DATASOURCE: Plumtree Software, Inc. CONTACT: media, Carilu Dietrich
of Plumtree Software, +1-415-399-7047, or Web site:
http://www.plumtree.com/
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