Another week and two more Oracle VPs have upped and left the company, one to join a start-up and the other to become a senior VP with front office vendor, Clarify Inc. On Friday, Recourse Technologies Inc, an internet security start-up, issued a press release saying that Oracle VP Luke Little had joined the company as senior VP of sales. And Clarify Inc, one of Oracle’s competitors in the customer relationship management space, said it had signed another Oracle VP, Dennis Cunningham, to become senior VP of strategic alliances.
The resignations come hot on the heels of the departure of Oracle’s worldwide head of applications, Peter Dunning, who left last week to become CEO of an Silicon Valley start-up. Within days of his resignation, the UK managing director, Philip Crawford, also announced he would be leaving the firm to join a start-up.
Recourse provides security software that enables businesses on the internet to contain, control, and track malicious computer attacks. The start-up, based in Palo Alto, California, said that Little will assume overall responsibility for the company’s sales operations, including management of the sales team, and the company’s partnership programs. Little worked for Oracle for 10 years. While there, he led a number of new business initiatives, including establishing a new business unit that grew revenues from zero to over $130m in four years.
Clarify, currently rated the third largest CRM vendor behind Siebel Systems Inc and Vantive Corp (which was acquired by PeopleSoft last week) said Dennis Cunningham brings the company 25 years of experience in the hi-tech consulting, alliances and sales and management sectors. At Oracle, Cunningham was VP of the process manufacturing sector, responsible for sales, sales consulting and vertical strategies. Prior to that, he directed the health care and office systems consulting practices at Ernst & Young. Cunningham is joining Clarify’s executive staff, reporting directly to the firm’s chief executive Tony Zingale, the company said.
