Chordiant Software Inc, Palo Alto, California-based provider of call center software, has appointed Sam Spadafora its president and chief executive officer. Spadafora succeeds Carol Realini who will continue as a working chairman of the board. He comes to Chordiant after spending the past four years at Sun Microsystems Inc as vice president of worldwide field operations for the microelectronics business. At Sun Spadafora was responsible for the company’s SPARC, Java processor and Java embedded consumer product lines. Prior to his tour of duty at Sun, Spadafora had held a variety of executive level positions in general management, sales and marketing over the past thirty years at companies including The Santa Cruz Operation Inc, Altos Computer Inc and Xerox Corp.
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