Succession in the Valley: some, like Hyperion, get it right. Most others, unfortunately, don't.(MANAGEMENT)

From: Chief Executive (U.S.) | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

In 1999, Jeffrey Rodek was brought in to salvage the wreck of Hyperion's failed merger with Arbor Software. Rodek was a self-described numbers guy who had cut his management teeth during a 16-year stint at FedEx, but two years into his rescue operation at the financial reporting software maker, he decided the Santa Clara-based company could do better faster if it hired a chief operating officer who possessed the salesmanship he lacked. He found his man in 51-year-old Godfrey Sullivan, a former division president at design software maker Autodesk who also had spent 11 years at ...

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