SugarCRM, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced that, effective today, John Roberts has resigned as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, and as a member of the Board of Directors, to pursue other opportunities. The B
Cupertino, Calif (May 07, 2009) –
SugarCRM, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced that, effective today, John Roberts has resigned as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, and as a member of the Board of Directors, to pursue other opportunities. The Board of Directors has appointed Larry M. Augustin, who is currently a member of the Board of Directors, to serve as the interim Chief Executive Officer while the Board conducts a search for a new CEO.
“As the founding CEO, John Roberts has been an outstanding leader at SugarCRM and we thank him for the vision and dedication he brought to the company,” said Augustin. “It is a small circle of people who can take a company from concept to market leadership like John has at SugarCRM.”
Augustin has been a Director of SugarCRM since February 2005. In addition to his position at SugarCRM, he serves on the Boards of Directors at Appcelerator, Compiere, DeviceVM, DotNetNuke, Fonality, Medsphere and Pentaho. One of the group who coined the term “Open Source,” he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000. He previously served as CEO of VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ: LNUX) and Medsphere.
“SugarCRM is one of the companies defining commercial open source and the next generation of CRM. With its award-winning products, large customer base, strong financials and thriving open source project, SugarCRM is well positioned to take the next step in the company’s growth,” said Augustin.
About SugarCRM
SugarCRM is the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software. Founded as an open source project in 2004, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded over five million times and currently serve over 500,000 users in 75 languages. Over 5,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM’s On-Site and Cloud Computing services over lock-in based, proprietary alternatives. In the last year, SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise.
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Source: SugarCRM