Google Cloud poaches SAP exec Adaire Fox-Martin to run EMEA ops
- Reference: 1625484605
- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/07/05/google_cloud_poaches_sap_exec/
- Source link:
The new hire, who has joined the organisation effective immediately, comes on the heels of the May departure of previous incumbent Chris Ciauri, who spent only 20 months as the regional boss at Google’s fluffy white tech services business before [1]exiting in May .
Fox-Martin will lead the Google Cloud sales teams in EMEA and be tasked with “strengthening the go-to-market strategy and supporting customers’ digital transformation,” the company said in a statement sent to The Register .
[2]
Customer wins for the cloud division at Google include Lloyds Banking Group, Nokia, Orange, Renault, SEB and most recently [3]Deutsche Bank . The newbie exec will need to “accelerate” the “growth journey across Europe”.
[4]New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral — despite being entirely fictional
[5]IBM President and former Red Hat boss Jim Whitehurst quits
[6]IBM email fiasco complicates sales deals, is worse than biz is letting on – sources
[7]You can hijack Google Cloud VMs using DHCP floods, says this guy, once the stars are aligned and...
[8]Oracle tempts users to run its cloud in their own data centres – for a mere '$6 million' commitment
Under the leadership of Ciauri, who [9]joined in September 2019 after a decade spent as exec veep and GM for EMEA at Salesforce, Google recruited managers for a number of the country operations, including the [10]UK and Ireland .
Ciauri also grew his region’s revenues in calendar 2020 by 41 per cent to $3.917bn, but sources told The Reg at the time that given the investment on headcount, top brass in US HQ wanted to see bigger returns. Neither Google nor Ciauri would comment on this.
[11]
Google Cloud didn’t break down the regional split, but [12]reported an operating loss of $5.6bn last year globally , versus an operating loss of $4.645bn in the prior year.
The choice of Fox-Martin, who held various senior positions during her 18 plus years at Oracle and more than 13-and-a-half years at SAP - mostly recently as president of global sales, services and customer engagement - is Google again hiring someone seemingly well-versed in corporate IT sales.
[13]
AWS itself brought on board [14]Andy Isherwood , the former HPE EMEA boss, in 2018 to spearhead its push into the large enterprise business market.
Google is the third biggest public cloud player globally, [15]lagging Microsoft and AWS by quite some distance. ®
Get our [16]Tech Resources
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/18/google_cloud_confirm_departure_of/
[2] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offprem/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2YOMsnlzHEOu-ErunMzz3MwAAAFM&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/25/deutsche_bank_consolidates_oracle_systems/
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/05/infinidash/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/02/ibm_whitehurst_quits/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/01/ibm_email_disruption_sales/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/gce_vm_vulnerability/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/08/oracle_cloud_on_premises/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2019/09/05/ex_bt_boss_gavin_patterson_to_head_salesforce_europe/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/05/google_cloud_nabs_salesforce_exec/
[11] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offprem/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YOMsnlzHEOu-ErunMzz3MwAAAFM&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/03/google_q4_2020/
[13] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offprem/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YOMsnlzHEOu-ErunMzz3MwAAAFM&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[14] https://www.theregister.com/2018/02/02/aws_looks_to_tech_old_guard_hires_emea_boss/
[15] https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/04/clouds_canalys/
[16] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Poached?
You sure she wasn't pushed: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sap-se-results-idUSKBN29J2Y4
SAP have closed their global channel sales operation except for the major partners. Not sure if she was part of the decision to close it or just caught in the cross-fire.
poaching is a crime
Don't use language to benefit the megacorporations. They want you to associate hiring free human beings with the right to work for whomever they like with the criminal act of hunting a game animal without license. When you use the word poaching to mean hiring, you help them associate that connotation, which in turn makes other employers less likely to hire and thus enables them to retain unhappy staff at artificially low wages. Don't do it!
Ms. Fox-Martin has the right to work for whomever she likes, on any mutually agreeable terms. Google have the right to hire anyone willing to work for them, on any mutually agreeable terms. Changing employers isn't a crime, and there is nothing morally wrong about providing incentives to hire people you really want working for you. If she were as valuable to SAP as to Google, SAP would have been paying her more.
As an employer, if you want employees to be bound to you for a specific period of time, then hire on term contracts with mutual penalties for early termination. If you don't do that, you have no right to complain when they leave for greener pastures. And you certainly don't have the right to abuse the language to gain public disapproval of the very act of making those pastures greener. When we let them do that, we end up with less happy employees (people like us!) and less productive employers; the winners are the abusers, who get to keep people who don't want to be working for them, and avoid paying them what they're worth.
For shame, El Reg!
See also: copyright infringement is not piracy, unless it involves stealing a container full of DVDs from a ship at sea.
Shy
I am not particularly interested in Google, but I had a peek at their job adverts and surprisingly I found that they don't publish how much they pay their employees.
Why is it secret?
Perhaps they don't want to upset their floor employees?
Lowest of the low...
"Customer wins for the cloud division at Google include... Nokia..."
And I thought that they had sunck as low as possible with the whole phone sell-off shenanigans...