Jan 31, 2017 | ATLANTA

Achieved Silicon Valley expertise brings confirmed enterprise and know-how credentials

Teradata (NYSE: TDC), a number one analytics options firm, as we speak introduced the election of Timothy Chou and Dan Fishback to its board of administrators, efficient as we speak. The brand new appointments broaden the board from 9 to eleven administrators and produce new technological and enterprise development experience.

Timothy Chou started his profession at one of many authentic Kleiner-Perkins startups, Tandem Computer systems. He has had a protracted industrial profession in enterprise software program culminating in his function as President, Oracle On Demand. He has served on public firm boards since 2000, together with Blackbaud, Inc. and Embarcadero Applied sciences, Inc. Along with his industrial profession, he has additionally been a lecturer at Stanford College since 1982 and, ten years in the past created the primary class on cloud computing. Whereas at Oracle, he authored his first landmark e-book, The Finish of Software program, which foretold the rise of SaaS purposes. Extra just lately he launched a brand new e-book, Precision: Ideas, Practices and Options for the Web of Issues. Dr. Chou joins the Teradata board as a Class II director. 

Dan Fishback is a well-regarded government in Silicon Valley with an intensive background in guiding know-how corporations focusing on making use of analytics to resolve advanced enterprise issues. He at present serves on the boards of a number of know-how corporations. As CEO of DemandTec, Fishback launched a ground-breaking analytical cloud resolution for retail and shopper product organizations, adopted by many international Fortune 500 companies. Previous to main DemandTec, he held gross sales and government management positions at Ariba, Buying and selling Dynamics, Hyperion Software program, Arbor Software program and Unisys. He’s additionally an advisor and marketing consultant to plenty of corporations and CEOs. Mr. Fishback joins the Teradata board as a Class I director.

The brand new administrators had been chosen following a complete search carried out by the board. 

“We’re happy to welcome Timothy Chou and Dan Fishback to our board,” mentioned James Ringler, chairman, Teradata Company. “Tim properly understands enterprise transformation within the context of cloud options that embrace new consumption fashions and allow providers supply. Dan has robust software program expertise in addition to on-premises and SaaS expertise in related areas, notably enterprise analytics. They each have held management roles in a number of companies. We all know they are going to be nice belongings to the board and we look ahead to their contributions.”

The brand new board members be part of Teradata at a time when the corporate is reshaping its enterprise to ship higher worth to clients and shareholders by offering extra versatile buying and deployment choices, similar to subscription and cloud-based alternate options. Teradata has just lately superior its enterprise analytic options, ecosystem structure consulting, and hybrid cloud choices with industry-first initiatives like Teradata In all places™ and Borderless Analytics, which exemplify the brand new Teradata.

“I’m excited to have these robust know-how leaders be part of our board,” mentioned Victor Lund, president and chief government officer of Teradata Company. “Tim and Dan have nice experience that aligns properly to our technique and path because the demand for large information analytics and cloud computing characterize important enterprise alternatives for Teradata.”

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