Redwood City, Calif., July 7, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA), the world's number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced two executive appointments to further strengthen the leadership team. Ginna Raahauge has joined as senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO), reporting to Mike Berry, executive vice president and chief financial officer. Additionally, Jeff Moses will serve as senior vice president of Cloud Sales, reporting to Charles Race, executive vice president of Worldwide Field Operations.
"Informatica has always been a great place to work because of the talented individuals and leaders we have, their focus on our customers' success and their commitment to changing the world through data," said Jo Stoner, chief human resources officer, Informatica. "As we enter the next phase to grow Informatica into a multi-billion dollar company in all things data, Informatica continues to attract the best minds in the industry. Today's appointments of Ginna as our CIO and Jeff as our head of Cloud Sales are exciting ones and both will play instrumental roles in driving Informatica's growth plans forward. Ginna and Jeff have strong track records of driving growth and creating value for customers. I am excited to work with each of them as part of the leadership team at Informatica."
Raahauge brings more than two decades of technology and business leadership experience to her role as CIO at Informatica. Her focus will be on building a world-class IT organization as well as enhancing the Cloud services. Most recently, Raahauge was the senior vice president and CIO of Riverbed, where she was responsible for efficiently enabling growth by delivering enterprise technology platforms for new business models.
Moses has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, prior to his role at Informatica. At Informatica, Moses will be responsible for growing Informatica's market-leading cloud business. Most recently, Moses was the chief operating officer and senior vice president of Customer Engagement and Commerce for SAP in North America and Latin America. Moses was responsible for effectively driving go-to-market programs by managing sales strategy and operations for the entire field organization in the region.
Raahauge stated, "Informatica is well aligned with the megatrends in the IT industry - big data, social, mobile and IoT. From an IT perspective, there are a wealth of opportunities to create business value using all types of data from all sources. Informatica is at the leading edge of providing these solutions to our customers and I look forward to further creating value for the company, our customers, partners and employees globally."
"The opportunity ahead for Informatica, specifically in the Cloud market, is tremendous," stated Moses. "Informatica has been a pioneer and visionary in Cloud computing for the past decade. Moving forward, my team and I are excited to significantly grow the Informatica Cloud customer base. Informatica Cloud has the fastest growth revenue in the company, which is a testament to our leading products and robust partnerships. I am confident we can continue to achieve even greater success with further expansion and globalization of this key subscription business."
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About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA) is the world's number one independent provider of data integration software. Organizations around the world rely on Informatica to realize their information potential and drive top business imperatives. Informatica Vibe, the industry's first and only embeddable virtual data machine (VDM), powers the unique "Map Once. Deploy Anywhere." capabilities of the Informatica Platform. Worldwide, over 5,800 enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets from devices to mobile to social to big data residing on-premise, in the Cloud and across social networks. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com. Connect with Informatica at http://www.facebook.com/InformaticaCorporation, http://www.linkedin.com/company/informatica and http://twitter.com/InformaticaCorp.
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