Salesforce.com Appoints Doug Dennerline as EVP Enterprise Sales Americas
August 24 2009 - 3:05PM
PR Newswire (US)
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com
(NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, today
announced the appointment of Doug Dennerline as executive vice
president, Enterprise Sales Americas. Dennerline brings over 20
years of sales leadership experience to the company, having served
most recently as senior vice president and general manager of the
Collaboration Software Group at Cisco, which includes its
software-as-a-service strategy and products, and all WebEx
conferencing and collaboration offerings. He will report to Frank
van Veenendaal, president, worldwide sales, and chief sales officer
at salesforce.com. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO) "It's a
pleasure to welcome Doug to salesforce.com," said Marc Benioff,
chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. "He is one of the best leaders I
have ever worked with in enterprise sales." "We welcome Doug to the
salesforce.com team; one that he is already familiar with as part
of the original team at Cisco that selected our service years ago,"
said van Veenendaal. "Doug's proven track record of sales
leadership success and firsthand knowledge of the benefits of cloud
computing will accelerate us in our pursuit to free businesses from
the constraints of traditional software." Dennerline has close to
ten years of leadership experience at Cisco. Prior to serving as
senior vice president and general manager of the Collaboration
Software Group at Cisco, he was senior vice president, U.S.
Commercial, where he was responsible for all field sales, systems
engineering, marketing programs, and operations necessary to
achieve Cisco's projected growth in this market segment, which
resulted in double digit year-over-year growth. Previously,
Dennerline was senior vice president of the U.S. Enterprise,
Commercial and Federal Sales group, responsible for nearly half of
Cisco's revenue. Before joining Cisco, Dennerline spent 10 years at
3Com Corporation where he held numerous leadership positions. "It's
a great time to join salesforce.com. Businesses are more open than
ever to how cloud computing can help them achieve their business
goals," said Dennerline. "Having been a salesforce.com customer for
years, I can attest to the benefits salesforce.com's cloud
computing solutions bring to sales specifically. I look forward to
joining the team in its pursuit towards the End of Software." About
salesforce.com Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing
company. The company's portfolio of Salesforce CRM applications,
available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has
revolutionized the ways that companies collaborate and communicate
with their customers across sales, marketing and service. The
company's Force.com platform (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/)
enables customers, partners and developers to quickly build
powerful business applications to run every part of the enterprise
in the cloud. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multi-tenant
architecture, Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path
to customer success with cloud computing. As of July 31, 2009,
salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately
63,200 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Dow Jones
Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and SunTrust Banks.
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