SuccessFactors Adds Sales Exec in EMEA

August 14, 2009 – SuccessFactors, Inc., a global provider of on-demand performance and talent management solutions, has appointed Peter Prestele as vice president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) enterprise sales. Mr. Prestele will lead EMEA operations for SuccessFactors and help accelerate sales in the market while leading the company to new levels of growth. He comes to SuccessFactors with more than 15 years of software industry experience, with recent executive roles at Hewlett-Packard as area vice president of software group Germany, Mercury Interactive as managing director central and Eastern Europe and at IBM Europe as vice president EMEA Websphere BI. “SuccessFactors is capitalizing on the three strategic market trends of concern for corporate and intuitional leadership teams — competition for the best human capital, improvement of productivity, and the cloud computing revolution,” said Mr. Prestele. “My career decisions have always been based on growing market opportunities and offerings that makes a difference in how customers run their business.”