Sun Microsystems Announces Formation of Emerging Markets Sales Region
to Drive Accelerated Growth; Appoints New Global Sales Leadership
Peter Ryan Named EVP Global Sales and Services; Denis Heraud to
Lead New Emerging Markets Geography
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire EON) June 2, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the
formation of a new Emerging Markets sales geography to drive accelerated
expansion and sales coverage across growing markets in South and Eastern
Europe, Latin America, India and Greater China. Sun also announced the
appointment of Peter Ryan as executive vice president of Sun's Global
Sales and Services organization, reporting to Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's
president and chief executive officer. The new Emerging Markets region
will be led by Denis Heraud, Sun's
senior vice president of Asia Pacific. Heraud will take on an expanded
charter to lead the united Emerging Markets territory, reporting to
Ryan. As part of Sun's most recent third quarter fiscal 2008 results,
the company reported impressive growth in emerging markets including 20%
year-over-year growth in Brazil, 30% year-over-year growth in India and
18% growth in the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe region.
"Rapidly developing and emerging economies have been some of the most
assertive in embracing Sun's approach to sustainable network computing,
via open source software and open document formats, along with power
sensitive datacenter infrastructure," said Schwartz. "Establishing an
Emerging Markets geography as a peer to North America, Europe and Asia,
will focus our resources, attention and leadership to accelerate that
growth, while opening yet more indigenous opportunity for the
governments, businesses, and the developers looking to the network for
opportunity. With today's leadership announcements of both Peter and
Denis complemented by an updated organizational structure, we are
positioned to capture the tremendous opportunity found in these key
emerging markets and communities around the world.”
Effective immediately, Ryan will assume leadership of Sun's sales and
services organization worldwide from Don Grantham, who will be leaving
the company. Ryan previously served as senior vice president of Sun's
Americas Sales Region, where he was responsible for Sun's revenues,
margin and business objectives across Canada, Latin America and the
United States. Prior to this role, Ryan was senior vice president of
Sun's Global Sales and Services organization in Europe, Middle East and
Africa (EMEA).
In conjunction with the formation of the Emerging Markets region, Sun
also announced a series of organizational leadership changes to
accommodate the new sales geographic coverage model. Effective July 1,
2008 - the beginning of the Company's fiscal year 2009 –
Lionel Lim will be promoted to senior vice president, taking over
leadership of the Asia Pacific sales region from Heraud; Cheryl Cook
will be promoted to senior vice president of the North America sales
region, taking over from Ryan; the European region will remain under
Alain Andreoli, senior vice president of Europe, Middle East & Africa
(EMEA).
Today's announcement follows the recent promotion of Lin
Lee to vice president of Global Communities, based in China and
also reporting directly to Schwartz. Lee's new role expands on Sun's
emerging markets focus, with particular emphasis on managing
relationships with governments, universities and NGO's across the world,
specifically among the emerging economies. Her globally dispersed team
promotes Sun's long-term view on sustainable network infrastructures -
ranging from open file formats and open source software to
power-efficient network computing infrastructure.
Lastly, following Sun's integration of its Storage development and
marketing organizations into the Systems business unit, Sun's Global
Sales and Services organization will follow suit, combining its Systems
and Storage product sales forces into one unified team to better align
resources and address the growing market opportunity. This integration
will also take effect on July 1, 2008, consolidating the Global Sales
and Services organization into three key practice areas including
Systems, Software and Services.
Executive bios can be found at http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/index.jsp.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the ComputerTM"
-- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community
development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than
100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, and The Network is the Computer are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its
subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
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