REDWOOD SHORES — October 13, 2010 — Saba (NASDAQ:
SABA), the premier people systems provider, today announced that Laurent
Pacalin has joined the company as Senior Vice President and General
Manager of People Learning. Mr. Pacalin brings rich executive
leadership expertise to Saba with demonstrated success in strategy,
corporate development, customer loyalty and demand generation across
domestic and international markets.
News Facts
Laurent Pacalin
is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the People Learning
business unit at Saba. He is responsible for driving the strategy and
global execution of Saba’s Learning offerings. Pacalin brings over 25
years of experience in e-commerce, CRM, Analytics and on-line consumer
communities, from a number of leading public companies. He is
recognized for consistently leveraging new technologies that deliver
significant business value and high-level of customer satisfaction.
Most recently, Pacalin served as Senior Vice President and Chief
Marketing Officer at FICO, where he had responsibility for global demand
generation, brand leadership and customer loyalty. Previously, he ran
the CRM business unit at Siebel Systems where he was responsible for
delivering the highest level of customer satisfaction and product
adoption in the company’s history. Pacalin has also served as VP
Americas marketing for Oracle, CMO for Blue Martini Software and VP of
business development for Corio, a Saas pioneer.
Quotes
"We
have in place an award winning suite of people learning products and a
blue chip customer base,” said Bobby Yazdani, chairman and CEO of Saba.
"Laurent’s broad-based strategic and operational expertise combined with
his focus on the customer will intensify Saba’s efforts to develop
products that respond to the current learning and development needs of
organizations.”
“Today’s highly distributed workforce spans across
multiple generations that work, learn and communicate in vastly
different ways,” said Laurent Pacalin, GM of People Learning, Saba. “In
order to compete and succeed, organizations must address the disparate
ways their employees and customers learn, engage and commit. I am
excited by the opportunity that Saba has to provide social learning
tools that embrace our natural way of discovery, sharing and learning
anytime, anywhere on any device.”
About Saba
Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) provides a new class of people systemsthat combine enterprise learning, people management, and collaboration technologies. Today’s people-driven enterprises are using Saba's solutions to mobilize and engage people around new strategies and initiatives, align and connect people to accelerate the flow of business, and cultivate, capture, and share individual and collective knowhow to effectively compete and succeed.
Saba's premier customer base includes major global organizations and industry leaders in financial services, life sciences and healthcare, high tech, automotive and manufacturing, retail, energy and utilities, packaged goods, and public sector organizations. Saba’s solutions are available both on-premise and in the cloud, and are underpinned by global services capabilities and partnerships encompassing strategic consulting, comprehensive implementation services, and ongoing worldwide support.
Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Saba has offices on five continents. For more information, please visit www.saba.com or call +1-877-SABA-101 or +1-650-779-2791.
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Contacts:
Saba
Jenny Lee
650.581.2615
jlee@saba.com
Activa PR for Saba
Emma Rosen
415.385.2843
emma@activapr.com
SABA, the Saba logo, Saba Centra and the marks relating to Saba products and services referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Saba Software, Inc. or its affiliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners
