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JDA Adds Proven SaaS and Services Experience to Leadership TeamJDA Software Group, Inc. today announced the addition of several dynamic leaders to its executive team, whose proven industry expertise will help power the next generation of JDA's solutions to deliver a digital supply chain and maximum value for its leading customers. Desikan Madhavanur has been named to the new position of Chief Development Officer, Duane Kotsen has been appointed senior vice president (SVP), Global Consulting and Education Services, and Sharon Mills has been promoted to Chief Customer Officer. "The demand for our software offerings is strong, our team continues to lead in the digitalization of the supply chain, and our global customers are entrusting us as they drive their transformation initiatives," said JDA Chief Executive Officer Girish Rishi. "Our announcement today, appointing new leaders to the management team, is another step forward to further strengthen our ability to deliver the supply chain of the future and execute beyond our customers' expectations. Desikan, Duane and Sharon bring impressive capabilities in driving agile innovation, ensuring customer success and building high performance teams. Our 4,300 JDA associates welcome them with open arms, as we embrace and share our core values with them: obsessively delivering customer value, relentless learning and innovation, and collaborating candidly and respectfully, each and every day."
Desikan Madhavanur Named Executive Vice President (EVP), Chief
Development Officer Madhavanur joins JDA from CA Technologies, where he served as SVP and business center head for Data Center Orchestration. There, he had P&L and growth responsibility for a $1.2 billion business unit focused on driving modern application delivery, deployment, management, user adoption and profitable monetization. Madhavanur's successes included transitioning older legacy products to modern software architectures, developing a new business model to move products from a license to subscription service, and transforming the product release process from waterfall releases to Agile (News - Alert) sprints while meeting release commitments. Prior to CA, Madhavanur served as GVP of Engineering, Emerging Technologies and general manager of Products & Strategy at E2Open. There he pivoted the company's revenue model from stand-alone applications to platform services. He also orchestrated product strategy and vision by managing long term product roadmaps and driving execution success for E2open's cloud solutions, driving user adoption and profitable revenue growth. Madhavanur has also held leadership positions at JP Morgan and i2 Technologies (later acquired by JDA), where he spent four years as the lead product manager for collaborative supply and demand planning solutions. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Annamalai University in India, a master's degree in systems and industrial engineering from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the University of Texas.
Duane Kotsen Appointed Senior Vice President, Global Consulting and
Education Services Kotsen joins JDA from Deltek, where he was SVP of Global Consulting Services, developing a tiered implementation methodology that significantly improved margins and customer outcomes. Kotsen has previous experience with JDA, having served as the company's SVP of America Services from 2011-13 and SVP of Global Consulting Services from 2009-11. In both roles, he leveraged his span of responsibility to integrate sales and delivery models across the services teams, enabling improved customer satisfaction and outcomes. Kotsen was also SVP of Global Services at QAD (from 2006-2009) and at PeopleSoft (2002-2005), and had positions at Extrarpise Group and Oracle (News - Alert). He has a bachelor's degree in computer and information sciences at Leigh University and an MBA from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania.
Sharon Mills Promoted to Chief Customer Officer Along with these changes, the company also announced that Cindy Howton, EVP, Global Consulting Services and Serge Massicotte, EVP and Chief Technology Officer, have elected to depart the company to pursue other interests.
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