Published on the 27/06/2016 | Written by Beverley Head
There’s been a changing of the guard in leading technology companies including the Australian subsidiaries of ERP giants Oracle and NetSuite…
Tim Ebbeck has stood down as senior vice president and managing director of Oracle after three years in the role while Mark Troselj has left NetSuite after six years in the role as its managing director and vice president of sales for Asia Pacific.
Oracle’s machine grinds slowly – and although a spokesman confirmed yesterday that Ebbeck had left – at time of writing the corporate website still has him in the role. A former head of SAP in Australia Ebbeck came into Oracle after a stint at NBN Co with plans to disrupt the business and spur massive growth on the back of perceived demand for cloud computing solutions. Last year the company announced a 1,000 strong sales recruitment drive across the region.
Regarding Mark Troselj’s departure, NetSuite has issued a statement saying that; “Mark has been a tremendous asset during his six years’ tenure at NetSuite, helping to grow the business locally and across APJ, and we wish him the best of luck in his future endeavour.” The company has not commented about any plans to replace Troselj.
Troselj’s position first came into question in 2015 when Lee Thompson was appointed senior vice president and general manager for the company in Asia Pacific and Japan. Thompson complained last August that the company’s regional profile was not a patch on the company’s overseas performance, and set about boosting the number of partners in the region.
Earlier this year NetSuite’s former ANZ sales director Vince Randall left the company to join another ERP vendor Epicor as regional vice president.
Thompson joined NetSuite after a brief stint as chief operating officer of Brisbane based Technology One before deciding he was temperamentally more suited to working for international, US based technology companies having previously served time at Salesforce and Oracle.
In the networking space ITnews reported last week that both Brocade and Ruckus Communications had spilled their local managing directors ahead of the integration of the companies.
Gary Denman’s LinkedIn profile confirms that he is now managing director of Intel Security in Australia and New Zealand. Pat Devlin reportedly leaves Ruckus next week – his LinkedIn profile remains unchanged apart from a note that Ruckus is now a part of Brocade.
