London, Nov. 24 , 2010 \u2013 Salesforce.com [NYSE:CRM], the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced the appointment of JP Rangaswami to the newly created position of Chief Scientist .
At salesforce.com, Rangaswami reports to Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. In his new role, Rangaswami will help European customers think about innovative ways to use the real-time, mobile and social capabilities provided by Salesforce apps and the Force.com platform. He also will contribute to salesforce.com\u2019s product strategy as well as promote the benefits of cloud computing globally. He is salesforce.com\u2019s first Chief Scientist.
Background of JP Rangaswami:
\u2022 Rangaswami brings 30 years\u2019 technology experience with large multinational companies.
\u2022 Before joining salesforce.com, Rangaswami spent four years at BT in London, most recently as Chief Scientist of the BT Group.
\u2022 Prior to joining BT, Rangaswami was global chief information officer at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, which he joined in 1997. While there, he established his reputation for innovation within the enterprise, culminating in a series of Harvard Business Review case studies.
\u2022 Rangaswami is chairman of School of Everything, an educational startup that teaches a broad range of socially focused topics via the web. While Rangaswami resigned his post as chairman of Ribbit when he left BT, he remains on the board as a non-executive director. He is also a venture partner at Anthemis Group.
\u2022 Rangaswami earlier held a variety of leadership and technology positions at Burroughs Corp., Data General and Hoskyns Group.
\u2022 Rangaswami holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Economics and Statistics from St. Xavier\u2019s College, University of Calcutta.
Rangaswami, 53, has received numerous industry awards throughout his career. In April, he was ranked no. 18 in the Wired 100, Wired magazine\u2019s list of the most-influential \u201cdigital powerbrokers.\u201d In 2007 and 2008, Rangaswami was among the 50 most influential people in technology in the silicon.com Agenda Setters poll, which cited his \u201cvision and innovation rarely seen in CIOs.\u201d In 2004 he was European Technology Forum\u2019s CIO Innovator of the Year, and in 2003 he was named CIO of the Year by Waters Magazine. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the British Computer Society. He writes about ways to avoid information overload in his blog, Confused of Calcutta. Rangaswami was born in Calcutta and moved to the U.K. in 1980, where he began work as a technical writer for Burroughs.
Comments on the announcement:
\u201cI can think of no one better as salesforce.com\u2019s Chief Scientist than JP Rangaswami,\u201d said Marc Benioff, CEO of salesforce.com. \u201cHe has the rare talent of being able to see what the future should be, knowing what it takes to get there, and the enthusiasm to make it happen. He is a true innovator, and I am thrilled he\u2019s joined salesforce.com.\u201d
\u201cI\u2019ve long thought that it\u2019s only a matter of time before enterprise software consists of only four types of application: publishing, search, fulfillment and conversation,\u201d said Rangaswami. \u201cSalesforce.com \u2013 with its cloud-based enterprise apps that are social, mobile and real-time \u2013 is already making that vision real and I look forward to helping shape the future of enterprise software.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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