Tony Zingale Now Jive's Permanent CEO
Record Growth Fuels Continued Expansion; Palo Alto, California Named
Jive's Headquarters
PALO ALTO, Calif/PRNewswire/ -- Jive Software, Inc. - Today
Jive Software announced that Tony Zingale has become Jive's permanent
CEO. He has been the interim CEO for less than three months and has
served on Jive's board of directors for well over two years.
"Jive is leading the Social Business revolution, just like Facebook
and LinkedIn did in our personal and professional lives," said Tony
Zingale, CEO of Jive. "Social Business is the biggest shift in the way
business gets done in a generation. Jive has the right strategy, people
and products to lead this market like never before."
Tony Zingale Background
Tony Zingale has over thirty years of experience building market
leading technology companies. Prior to Jive, Zingale served as President
and CEO of Mercury Interactive, the worldwide leader of Business
Technology Optimization (BTO) software, where he successfully grew the
company to over $1B in annual revenue. In 2006 HP purchased Mercury for
$5.1 billion. Prior to Mercury, he was President and CEO of Clarify, a
leader in customer relationship management (CRM) software, where he grew
the company to more than $300 million in annual revenue. Nortel
acquired Clarify for $2.1 billion in 1999. He serves on the board of
directors of Coverity, Inc., McAfee, Inc., and ServiceSource.
Record Growth Fuels Continued Expansion; Palo Alto, California Named
Jive's Headquarters
In less than a year Jive has increased its Silicon Valley team from 4
to 50 and expects to have over 100 employees in Palo Alto, Jive's new
headquarters, by the beginning of next year. To accommodate this growth,
Jive recently signed a lease for a new facility in Palo Alto's downtown
business district on 325 Lytton Avenue. Jive continues to aggressively
hire engineering, sales, marketing, product management, services and
support professionals in the Bay Area, and will relocate to the new
headquarters this fall.
Jive's Portland center will continue to be a major hub of innovation
and investment. Jive recently reached capacity of its current office in
Portland, and this summer will begin the build out of an additional
floor to accommodate planned hiring. Jive also recently moved into a
significantly larger office located in Boulder, Colorado's Pearl Street
District. "Now we have a strong hold in three of the top cities in the
country for attracting the best and brightest talent in the social
software market," said Bryan LeBlanc, CFO at Jive.
Social Business - The New Way to Business
Social Business Software is the new way to engage employees,
customers and the social web. Just as social technologies changed our
personal lives, Social Business is changing how enterprises create
competitive advantage. SBS is emerging as the most important new
enterprise software category in a decade. Analysts project the Social
Business Software market is growing in excess of 25% CAGR and will reach
nearly $5 billion by 2013.
About Jive Software
Social Business Software is the new way to engage employees,
customers and the social web. Just as social technologies changed our
personal lives, Social Business is changing how enterprises create
competitive advantage. SBS is emerging as the most important new
enterprise software category in a decade. SBS combines the power of
community software, collaboration software, social networking software,
and social media monitoring tools. Analysts project the Social Business
Software market is growing in excess of 25% CAGR and will reach nearly
$5 billion by 2013.
Source: Jive Software, Inc.
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