Loading ...Two press releases caught my attention this week.
- Former Callidus Vice President Joins Varicent to Head Varicent’s Global Expansion
- Callidus Software Names Jimmy Duan Senior Vice President of Mid-Market Business… Previously, Dr. Duan served as vice president of products and professional services at Xactly, where he was responsible for defining solutions and services strategies and managing services delivery to its customers.
So Callidus loses a VP to Varicent, but takes one from Xactly.
This tells me that either there is MORE collaboration between SPM companies than I believed, or (probably more likely) that there is fierce competition between SPM companies trying to steal each other’s top-guns.
So who needs a VP?
You missed the part where Jimmy Duan used to head Client Services at Callidus. He left to go to XActly, but has now come back home.
Also a factual error… Andy Armstrong left Callidus in 2007: http://leapcomp.com/2008/10/jumping-around-what%E2%80%99s-going-on-fact-check.html
Curious Ben, I noticed that he has gone back to Callidus but did not resume in his previous role of heading up Client Services. Sure seems like an attempt to gather competitive intelligence.
Why would someone leave a company and then go back with a reduced role?
Mike/Ben,
Jimmy was not head of Callidus Client Services prior to his departure to Xactly. He was at the time head of the Solutions Architect group reporting to Rick Furino- SVP of World Wide Client Services (A position now held by Robert Conti).
Jimmy has returned to be SVP- for Callidus’s Mid-Market division. His role has increased and not decreased.