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Doug Dennerline Leaves WebEx for Salesforce
August 10th, 2009 by Video Conferencing Expert
Webconferencing giant WebEx chief Doug Dennerline has left his job in Cisco’s collaboration software group to join Salesforce.com as its executive vice president of sales for the Americas. The move will help Salesforce.com further cement its feet in cloud computing as it continues to move away from traditional software.
Dennerline was charged with overseeing not only Cisco’s cloud and SaaS strategies, but also its products, including the WebEx offerings. Earlier this year, Dennerline outlined Cisco’s plan of attack for cloud computing and SaaS and offered insight into how Cisco would challenge rivals like Microsoft and Google in the cloud. In his new role at Salesforce.com, Dennerline will report to Frank van Veenendaal, president of worldwide sales and chief sales officer.
Salesforce President, Frank van Veenedaal:
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. 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, who was integral to Cisco’s cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) strategies, took the helm of WebEx shortly after Cisco acquired the video conferencing and collaboration software for $3.2 billion in May 2007. At Cisco, Dennerline served as senior vice president and general manager of the San Jose, Calif.-based networking giant’s collaboration software group and was responsible for overseeing all of Cisco’s next-generation collaboration software solutions.