by Angela Guess
Versant has named Paul McCullugh the new Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. According to the announcement, “Mr. McCullugh brings 20 years of sales and marketing experience to Versant, including a diverse background in complex high performance database and middleware applications, open source products, and cloud services. He has directly sold and built sales and marketing teams that collectively have generated hundreds of millions in business value for customers in many vertical industries.”
It continues, “This new appointment represents Mr. McCullugh’s return to Versant after a twelve year hiatus. As Vice President of Sales at Versant, he led a team to record performance in 2000. In addition to his experience with Versant, Mr. McCullugh has a solid track record of success managing both direct and in-direct customer relationships in commercial and open source software markets, including cloud business models. He comes to Versant following a very successful six year career at Oracle, where he held various sales positions in the Technology division, most recently as Sr. Director of Cloud Services. Prior to Oracle, Mr. McCullugh was Sr. Director of Sales for Sleepycat Software, an open source database company that was acquired by Oracle in 2006. Prior to Sleepycat, Mr. McCullugh held Executive Sales positions with several VC backed start-ups.”
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