Salesforce.com hires former Oracle executive as president

June 07, 2013

Salesforce.com has hired a key former Oracle executive Keith Block as its president and vice chairman. He will lead the enterprise cloud computing company’s global sales, customer support and consulting services businesses, and has also been appointed to the company’s board. Block, who was executive vice president of Oracle’s North America sales and consulting, decided to quit the company to pursue other opportunities, Oracle said in a regulatory filing in June last year. There was speculation that he had been axed because of critical remarks he made about his superior, co-president Mark Hurd, and other aspects of Oracle’s business. The instant-message remarks emerged in court filings in a lawsuit between Hewlett-Packard and Oracle. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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