Nov 2, 2017 | ATLANTA

Mark Culhane appointed Chief Monetary Officer, succeeding Stephen Scheppmann – Eric Tom appointed Chief Income Officer

Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the main knowledge and analytics firm, at the moment introduced that its Board of Administrators has appointed Mark Culhane Govt Vice President, Chief Monetary Officer and principal accounting officer, efficient November 10, 2017. Mr. Culhane succeeds Stephen Scheppmann, who’s stepping down because the Firm’s Chief Monetary Officer and principal accounting officer for well being causes following the submitting of the Firm’s third quarter Kind 10-Q. Following Mr. Culhane’s appointment, Mr. Scheppmann will probably be on medical go away beneath the Firm’s short-term incapacity plan and has agreed to help with the transition of his duties.

Mr. Culhane is an skilled chief who has served because the Chief Monetary Officer (CFO) of a number of transformative, cloud-based software program corporations. He has scaled and formed organizations to help and maintain speedy progress, and has led and managed quite a few financings by way of IPOs, enterprise capital, debt and follow-on choices, and has directed and pushed strategic acquisitions.

Teradata additionally introduced at the moment the appointment of Eric Tom to the newly created place of Govt Vice President and Chief Income Officer, efficient November 6, 2017.  On this new position, Mr. Tom will lead Teradata’s world go-to-market technique and execution.

Mr. Tom is a worldwide enterprise government with expertise main a number of purposeful areas throughout a number of industries. He has a powerful track-record of spearheading gross sales progress and workforce transformation, in addition to enhancing the effectivity of enterprise gross sales and enterprise growth. Mr. Tom has intensive expertise driving change inside a company to realize the subsequent degree of enterprise efficiency, using tradition change, sustainable processes and disciplined gross sales administration instruments.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Mark and Eric, two profitable and transformational leaders with observe data of guiding organizations by way of change and driving progress,” mentioned Vic Lund, President and Chief Govt Officer. “Mark is a strategic, results-oriented expertise government with sturdy monetary and analytical expertise that may assist us proceed to execute our technique and win. Eric is a seasoned working government with a worldwide perspective, and is ideally suited to make sure Teradata is prioritizing accounts and investments world wide with one, complete go-to-market technique. We welcome Mark and Eric to the Teradata group, and stay up for benefiting from their invaluable experiences and views.”

“I’m happy to hitch Teradata throughout this vital stage within the Firm’s evolution,” mentioned Mr. Culhane. “Teradata has important momentum, and I stay up for working alongside Vic and the administration group to speed up the execution of Teradata’s technique and drive better worth for Teradata’s shareholders.”

“It’s clearly a transformational time at Teradata, and I’m wanting to rapidly get to work with Teradata’s seasoned management group to create a good stronger world go-to-market strategy and execution,” mentioned Mr. Tom. “I’m enthusiastic concerning the progress that the Firm has made, and stay up for serving to Teradata drive buyer outcomes and return Teradata to significant income progress.”

“I wish to thank Steve for his a few years of service and monetary management, in addition to for agreeing to help throughout this transition interval,” mentioned Vic Lund. “On behalf of the Teradata group, and personally, we want Steve all the most effective as he focuses on his well being and spending further time together with his household.”

About Mark Culhane

Mr. Culhane serves on the Board of Administrators of UserZoom and CallidusCloud, the place he’s Chair of the Audit Committee. Since 2016, Mr. Culhane has run Culhane Advisory Providers, which counsels administration groups at enterprise and personal equity-backed cloud software program corporations on monetary methods, monetary reporting, go-to-market methods, and supporting and scaling progress.

From 2012 to 2016, Mr. Culhane was SVP & CFO at Lithium Applied sciences, a number one cloud software program buyer engagement platform firm, the place he was answerable for worldwide monetary and administrative features. Throughout his tenure, Mr. Culhane drove and refined the corporate’s SaaS enterprise mannequin, and constructed the groups and carried out techniques and controls infrastructure to help and maintain speedy progress. From 2001 to 2012, he was EVP & CFO of DemandTec, the place he was answerable for worldwide enterprise growth, technique and monetary and administrative features. He additionally established DemandTec’s SaaS enterprise mannequin and its worldwide operations to help world enlargement, and led the strategic sale of the corporate to IBM.

Beforehand, Mr. Culhane held CFO positions at iManage and SciClone Prescription drugs, and labored within the audit follow of Worth Waterhouse. Mr. Culhane acquired a BS from the College of South Dakota and holds a CPA certificates from the State of California.

About Eric Tom

Mr. Tom presently serves as a strategic advisor for a number of start-up software program corporations, together with iHealthHome, Eagle Expertise and Soli, offering steering on essential enterprise features of enterprise go-to-market planning and technique, in addition to enterprise mannequin and product growth.

Most not too long ago, Mr. Tom was Govt Vice President, International Gross sales at Worldwide Recreation Expertise, the place he was the chief of world gross sales, world service, enterprise advertising and enterprise growth. He was answerable for all enterprise income and was a member of the management group driving enterprise and product route and tradition transformation. Notably, Mr. Tom helped rework the gross sales surroundings to a cohesive, results-oriented, disciplined solution- centered group that drove substantial income progress.

Beforehand, Mr. Tom served as Vice President, Company and Enterprise Growth at Force10 Networks, the place he developed a number of strategic distribution channels and constructed and grew its regional VAR program. Mr. Tom has additionally held numerous management positions at Broadband Interactive TV, the place he was Chief Govt Officer, Qwest Communications, and Dash. 

Mr. Tom acquired a BBA in Accounting from the College of Hawaii and an MBA in company finance from College of California, Berkeley.