Taleo Appoints Susan Chenoweth as Vice President, Worldwide Marketing
Seasoned marketing and communications industry expert with more than 20 years experience, joins Taleo's global marketing team during continued era of growth
SAN FRANCISCO – June 8, 2005 – Taleo Corporation, a worldwide leader of on demand talent management solutions, today announced the appointment of Susan Chenoweth (formerly Susan Dwyer) to vice president of worldwide marketing. Ms. Chenoweth brings more than 20 years of software and technology marketing and communications experience to Taleo and has a proven track record of leading global marketing organizations in companies through significant stages of growth.
As vice president, worldwide marketing, Ms. Chenoweth will be responsible for Taleo's worldwide marketing strategy and programs including corporate communications, public relations, analyst relations, customer and partner communications, field marketing, direct marketing, and creative services. She will report to Jeff Carr, EVP of Global Sales & Marketing.
"As we further our leadership position in the on demand talent management industry, it becomes increasingly important to strengthen our global marketing team to build our brand in the worldwide marketplace. The addition of Susan to our growing marketing team brings the leadership needed to help drive Taleo's aggressive growth plans. Susan's extensive marketing experience and proven track record in growing successful companies will further solidify our position as the talent management solutions provider of choice, "stated Michael Gregoire, CEO, Taleo.
Ms. Chenoweth brings two decades of sales and marketing leadership experience from leading global technology companies including Commerce One, Netscape, Microsoft, IBM, and Tandem. Most recently, Ms. Chenoweth served as vice president of worldwide marketing at Grand Central Communications, a leading provider of on demand integration solutions. During her time at Grand Central, she had overall responsibility for corporate marketing, channel marketing, corporate communications, media and investor relations, and product marketing.
During her time at Commerce One, Ms. Chenoweth helped groom the company through its pre-IPO, private company era through its successful public offering. Ms. Chenoweth was also instrumental in growing the company from a $2M business to a run rate greater than $700M in 2000, through the execution of aggressive and successful marketing programs.
Chenoweth stated, "After performing significant due diligence, it was clear that Taleo is the leader in the talent management industry and has a significant opportunity for continued growth. I look forward to building the Taleo brand and working with the global marketing team to help fuel Taleo's growth through unique and aggressive marketing campaigns and programs."
Ms. Chenoweth has a degree in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and completed Stanford's Executive Program.
About Taleo Corporation
Taleo delivers on demand talent management solutions to leading companies worldwide. Taleo enables organizations of all sizes to assess, acquire and manage their workforce for improved business performance. For the first time, Taleo arms HR executives and staffing directors with the capability to wring out talent management costs, respond more quickly to organizational demands and drive workforce quality. Taleo turns talent management into a source of value, competitiveness and workforce performance management. Taleo serves the world's most demanding businesses and is one of the world's largest Software as a Service Providers with approximately 420,000 users across 87 countries and 24 million candidates from virtually all countries in the world.
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