May 12, 2008
Eloqua Corporation, the leading supplier of automated demand generation applications and expertise for business-to-business (B2B) marketers, today announced that it has relocated its corporate headquarters to Washington, D.C. in conjunction with a broad expansion of its management team. Eloqua named industry veterans Don Clarke as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Andre Yee as Senior Vice President of Product Development and Rob Brewster as Senior Vice President of Business Development. Clarke and Yee will both operate from Eloqua’s new headquarters in the Washington, D.C. area. Brewster will be based in the company’s San Francisco office. The corporate relocation follows a blockbuster year in 2007 for Eloqua, in which it reached new revenue milestones and surpassed the 400 customer mark.
“Our leadership in the demand generation space is based on our ability to help marketers take advantage of the opportunities and navigate the challenges created by fundamental changes in the marketing profession,” said Joe Payne, president and CEO of Eloqua. “To maintain this leadership position, we must continue to tap into the deep pool of experienced and talented executives that the U.S. market affords and get closer to our rapidly growing customer base. The new additions to Eloqua’s management team each bring a wealth of knowledge in his area of expertise that will be invaluable as Eloqua enters its next phase of growth.”
Eloqua will continue to maintain its existing operations in its Toronto, London, Singapore and U.S.-based offices.
About Don Clarke
As Eloqua’s CFO, Clarke will lead Finance, Accounting, Human Resources and Legal operations for Eloqua. With over 25 years experience in highly dynamic and challenging environments, Clarke brings broad management expertise that includes being a CFO in the Sarbanes-Oxley era, leading an IPO, executing on company and product line acquisitions, and growing companies from less than $5M to more than $150M in revenue. Most recently with Cloakware, he has held the CFO position at a total of six different companies, including Intelicom, Net2000 and Visual Networks, prior to his taking this role at Eloqua. Clarke began his career at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and studied at Virginia Tech.
About Andre Yee
As Senior Vice President of Product Development, Yee will be responsible for Product Development, QA, Product Operations and Product Architecture at Eloqua. Prior to joining Eloqua, Yee was CEO of NFR Security, leading the company to a successful exit to Check Point Software. Before NFR, Yee held senior product development roles with three public companies. He was the Vice President of R&D at SAGA Software and held senior product development roles at Landmark Systems and Best Software. Yee is an inventor of two patents and was recognized by InfoWorld Magazine in 2006 as one of the “Innovators to Watch.”
About Rob Brewster
Brewster will be responsible for driving the growth of Eloqua’s partner business and managing relationships with Eloqua’s Marketing Service Partners (MSPs), implementation partners and strategic partners (including Oracle, Salesforce.com, Microsoft). With close to 20 years experience in sales and business development, he was most recently Vice President of Alliances at Salesforce.com, focused on driving pipeline, revenue and content to Salesforce.com’s sales organization through consulting partners. Prior to Salesforce.com, Brewster spent five years at Epiphany and various roles at Siebel, BEA, Intellicorp and Data Broadcasting.
About Eloqua
Eloqua is the category-defining marketing automation leader and provider of best practices expertise for marketers around the world. The company’s mission is to make its customers the best marketers on earth. Thousands of customers from leading companies such as American Express, AON, Apple, Cognos, Dow Jones, Fidelity, Seagate and Sybase rely on the power of Eloqua to execute, automate and measure programs that generate revenue. Eloqua helps companies read and decode their buyers’ "Digital Body Language", thereby improving the quality and quantity of sales leads, increasing marketing effectiveness, and accelerating the selling process. Eloqua is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, with offices in Toronto, London, Singapore and throughout North America. For more information, please call 866-327-8764 or email demand@eloqua.com.