Tableau Announces Dan Miller as new EVP of Worldwide Field Sales, Services and Support
SEATTLE, Feb. 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA), a global leader in visual analytics, today announced that it has appointed industry veteran Dan Miller as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Sales, Services and Support effective February 13, 2017. Miller has a stellar track record as a global technology sales executive, with more than 30 years of experience at Oracle, Juniper Networks, HP and Sun Microsystems.
"We're absolutely delighted to have Dan on board," said Adam Selipsky, President and CEO of Tableau. "Dan's deep sales experience, global leadership, knowledge of enterprise markets and demonstrated ability to build a customer focused organization, will help our customers continue to expand and grow with Tableau."
Before joining Tableau, Miller most recently led the global go-to-market strategy, sales and operations for Oracle's ISV/OEM and Java businesses. Previously, he led Juniper's Enterprise business, and spent nearly 20 years at Sun Microsystems where he held a variety of senior sales management positions. As SVP, Global Systems and Storage for Sun, Miller led the server and storage field sales and engineering unit. He also brings to Tableau a global leadership background, including a three-year period as President and Chairman of Sun Microsystem's subsidiary in Japan, Sun Microsystem K.K. He holds a B.S. in Business with an emphasis in Information Systems and Marketing from the University of Colorado.
"Tableau's technology is solving one of the most pressing challenges in business today - seeing and understanding data in order to make better decisions more quickly. This is essential across diverse industries such as healthcare, banking, consumer products, media, government, education, and more," said Miller. "I'm looking forward to engaging with customers in their data transformation journey. And I'm also excited to help take Tableau's sales and services to the next level as we help enterprises and organizations of all sizes grow with the analytics power of Tableau. It's a tremendous honor to join the executive team and field teams here at Tableau and I can't wait to get started."
In conjunction with this announcement, Tableau will host a conference call at 1:30 p.m. PT (4:30 p.m. ET) today to discuss Tableau's fourth quarter and fiscal year 2016 financial results. A live audio webcast and replay of the call, together with detailed financial information, will be available in the Investor Relations section of Tableau's website at http://investors.tableau.com. The live call can be accessed by dialing (877) 201-0168 (U.S.) or (647) 788-4901 (outside the U.S.) and referencing passcode 49295016. A replay of the call can also be accessed by dialing (855) 859-2056 (U.S.) or (404) 537-3406 (outside the U.S.), and referencing passcode: 49295016.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements, which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the appointment of an EVP of Worldwide Field Sales, Services and Support and the benefits of such appointment to Tableau, Tableau's growth and market opportunity, and the benefits Tableau brings to its customers. These statements are not guarantees of future performance, but are based on management's expectations as of the date of this press release and assumptions that are inherently subject to uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements include the following: Tableau's ability to successfully integrate the new EVP of Worldwide Field Sales into the existing sales organization and company; risks associated with anticipated growth in Tableau's business and addressable market; customer demand for Tableau's products and services; competitive factors, including new market entrants and changes in the competitive environment, pricing changes, sales cycle time and increased competition; Tableau's enterprise sales expansion and further transition to subscription and term licensing; Tableau's ability to build and expand its direct sales efforts and reseller distribution channels; Tableau's ability to attract, integrate and retain qualified personnel; general economic and industry conditions, including expenditure trends for business intelligence and productivity tools; new product introductions and Tableau's ability to develop and deliver innovative, secure and high quality products; Tableau's ability to provide high-quality customer service and support offerings; risks associated with international expansion and operations; macroeconomic conditions; and market conditions. These and other important risk factors are described more fully in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Tableau's most recently filed Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and Form 10-K and other reports and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and could cause actual results to vary from expectations. All information provided in this release is as of the date hereof and Tableau undertakes no duty to update this information except as required by law.
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