Allan Day, vice president of logistics and sustainment of global public sector at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said there are three factors government agencies and other public sector organizations should consider to help improve the decision-making process and address inefficiencies in supply chains post-pandemic. These factors are the development of co...
Syam Nair, a former executive at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has been named chief technology officer at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) in a move that takes effect May 24. Zscaler said Tuesday that Nair will serve as executive vice president for research and development in addition to CTO. The 25-year technology industry veteran...
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has formed a $250 million venture investment fund to back generative artificial intelligence technology projects and introduced a customer relationship management platform that employs OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology. Salesforce said Tuesday its ventures arm will invest in Anthropic, Cohere, Hearth.AI and You.com through the...
Michael Barnes, a sales professional in the public sector technology market, has joined robotic process automation software provider UiPath as vice president of federal civilian business. “I’m excited to begin working with our customers and partners on this next evolution of enterprise transformation,” Barnes wrote in a LinkedIn po...
Dan Streetman, a two-decade technology industry veteran, has been appointed CEO at converged endpoint management and security provider Tanium. He succeeds Orion Hindawi, Tanium’s co-founder who will transition from the CEO role to executive chairman of the board of directors, the company said Wednesday. Co-founder and former Executive Chairman...
Eric Trexler, formerly a vice president at Forcepoint, has assumed the role of senior VP for the U.S. public sector unit at Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW), G2Xchange FedCiv reported Monday. Trexler led domestic and international sales functions within Forcepoint’s global governments and critical infrastructure business for more than four ye...
Greg Bateman, regional vice president of Defense – 4th Estate at Salesforce, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Friday. He discussed the recent acquisitions the company has made and how they contributed to its federal and defense portfolio and drove value for the business and customers. Bateman also talked about Sales...
ExecutiveBiz featured Dave Rey, president of Salesforce Global Public Sector, in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Wednesday. He talked about the government’s focus on enhancing digital services and customer experiences and in connection, the company’s efforts to drive growth and innovation for its government customers. Th...
Technology investment firm The Acacia Group has acquired The Baer Group, which provides tech consulting and services to customers in public and private sectors, for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to address the increasing shortage of technical talent needed to support digital transformation efforts of government and industry clients. “We se...
Raj Shankar, vice president of digital transformation & GTM at Salesforce, recently spoke with GovCon Wire regarding the importance of data transformation and how Salesforce can help drive larger digital transformation efforts for its customers. In addition, Shankar also discussed how Salesforce is driving success for its customers in the go...
