As head of Appirio's cloud strategy consulting practice, Mike helps CIOs and other enterprise executives who are trying to shift their IT and business strategies to take advantage of cloud computing. Prior to this role, Mike led Appirio's sales organization and built a team that has assisted with some of Google and salesforce.com's largest implementations. Mike has more than 20 years of leadership experience in application development, IT and executive management and brings extensive management consulting experience to Appirio's global client base.
Before joining Appirio, Mike was vice president of worldwide services at CollabNet, a provider of on-demand services to distributed application development organizations, helping them operate collaboratively to deliver systems and software. Prior to this he was vice president of worldwide services for Borland Software Corporation, a provider of application lifecycle management solutions. Mike managed Borland’s $120M consulting services, education services and technical support business, roughly 48% of Borland’s total revenues. In this role, Mike helped double Borland’s consulting services revenues providing executive sales support to close multiple seven figure engagements.
Mike joined Borland as part of its acquisition of TeraQuest Metrics, Inc., where he was CEO. He led TeraQuest’s 4-year alliance with Gartner, Inc., helping CIOs and VPs benchmark their performance against peer groups and implement strategic improvement initiatives. He has also worked in leadership roles, both as an employee and senior consultant, at Eastman Kodak, NEC, General Motors and EDS.
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