Shawn Price, Senior Vice President, Cloud, Oracle

Shawn Price is senior vice president of cloud for Oracle. Reporting directly to Oracle CEO Mark Hurd, Price has global responsibility for Oracle’s data as a service (DaaS), software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) businesses. 

Prior to joining Oracle, Price was president of global cloud at SAP, where he reported to the board of directors and was responsible for global P&L across on-premise and cloud applications. During his tenure at SAP, Business Insider named Price one of the 39 most influential people in cloud computing. 

As a 25-year veteran of Silicon Valley, Price led three companies to successful IPOs; the largest of these had a market capitalization of $10B. During this time he relied on his experience as an entrepreneur to become a successful venture capitalist and investor. 

Price is a charter member of the C100, a Silicon Valley nonprofit organization for Canadian entrepreneurs. He speaks at various industry events on monetization and growth strategies, end-to-end cloud transformation, mergers and acquisition strategies, and venture capital.

 

Price holds a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the University of Western Ontario.

Ian Broughton, Digital Director, EMEA

As Digital Director for EMEA, Ian is responsible for Oracle’s go to market strategy and thought leadership for Oracle in the Digital space, which includes identifying new technology trends and developments.

 With more than 15 years of IT and industry experience, Ian is a frequent speaker on the subjects of future IT, customer experience and transformation themes within certain industries.

 

Ian started his career in retail at Sainsbury’s in the UK, and then moved into the technology space holding several senior marketing positions (for a variety of industries) within organisations such as IBM, Infor, BEA Systems and now Oracle. More recently, Ian worked as EMEA Business Development Director for commercial industries, working with some of Oracle’s largest customers across the EMEA region.

Combining his marketing/business development and industry knowledge has helped him evangelise about critical business transformation themes, such as Smart Grids in Utilities, CX in Retail and now Digital Business across all industries.

Andrew Zoldan, Group Vice President, Oracle Industries Group

Andrew Zoldan is Group Vice-President of Oracle’s Industries Solution Group (ISG).  In addition to managing several industry groups (Communications, Media, Travel/Transportation, Enginering, Construction), Andrew is responsible for the ISG’s overall strategy and architecture of its solution offers and corresponding field and partner enablement.

Andrew has over 25 years of experience with ERP, Supply Chain Management, and CRM solutions. He was Senior Vice-President of Supply Chain for SAP and Vice-President of Solution and Product Management for Manugistics.  Andrew holds a Masters of Science and Bachelors Degree in Mathematics from the University of California.  

Penny Philpot, Group Vice President, Worldwide Alliances & Channels

Penny Philpot is a global IT sales, marketing, business development and operations executive with over 27 year experience, of which 20 years have been with Oracle.

Penny is Group Vice President, Worldwide Alliances and Channels at Oracle Corporation. She leads a team of approx 300 staff located in Tokyo, Korea, Beijing, Bangalore, Bucharest, Buenos Aires, Austin Texas and the Bay Area California.

Penny’s responsibilities include ownership for the Oracle Partner Program (Oracle PartnerNetwork), supporting Oracle's 25,000+ partners, ISV inside Sales team, OPN Operations and all related P&L.

This team’s clear objectives include helping partners grow their Oracle incremental revenue through Specialization, OPN Program utilization and Oracle engagement as well as supporting ISV revenue and new business development. Her Partner support team handles over 1.6m interactions and sales engagements per year with partners via phone, online chat, email and social media in 25 languages

Within the ISV business, Penny is responsible for managing globally over 3,000 ISVs, driving royalty revenue, upsell, cross-sell overall business as well as growth in Optimized Partner Solutions and Java Royalties.

Previously, Penny globally led the redesign and deployment of the new OPN Specialized program and the centralization and optimization of all OPN related teams and operations. Before her global roles, Penny headed up the OPN, Partner Development & Partner Marketing teams in Europe, Middle East & Africa and established today’s Oracle EMEA ISV & VAD strategies.

Prior to Oracle, Penny had key sales and marketing leadership positions. She was responsible for the deployment of distribution sales models across Europe, European OEM sales and UK Channel Sales.

Philip Carter, Vice President, European Software and Infrastructure, IDC

Philip Carter is vice president for the European Enterprise Infrastructure and Software Group. He leads a team of analysts that cover the infrastructure, middleware, and applications software markets and is tasked with writing and presenting on broader enterprise infrastructure software trends and the impact of emerging technology areas such as Big Data, cloud, mobility, and social as they relate to the European region.

Carter is regularly featured on mainstream media such as CNBC and Bloomberg, and in global publications such as the New York Times. Prior to working for IDC in Europe, Carter worked in IDC's Asia/Pacific region, covering the software, services, channels, and sustainability research areas. Before joining IDC, he worked at SAS Institute (both in EMEA and Asia/Pacific) in marketing strategy, product management, and business development roles.

Originally from Zimbabwe, Carter holds an honours degree in business science, majoring in economics and law from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Follow Philip on twitter http://twitter.com/carter_pc

Eric Fontaine, Vice President Alliances & Channels, Western Europe

Eric Fontaine is Oracle Vice President, Alliances & Channels Western Europe. His 2 main priorities are in this role are to pivot Partners to Cloud and to lead Digital transformations. 

Eric has worked at Oracle for over 15 years and brings a wealth of experience in Direct and Indirect sales. He can draw from industry best practices leveraging business cases.

Eric integrated Oracle France in 2000 as Regional Manager for the North, East and West. He had the overall responsibility for Applications & Technology for sales, pre-sales and consulting activities in these regions. In 2006, he worked as partner Director in France where he was also in charge of the Unlimited Potential program.

Before joining Oracle, Eric Fontaine worked as retail and emerging markets manager for Sun Microsystems. Between 1985 and 1995, he worked at Digital in various sales and management functions in public sector and financial markets.

Eric Fontaine holds a Bachelor Degree of ISEN (Electronics Engineer).

Simon Hill, Head of UK and Ireland Alliances and Channels, Oracle

Simon Hill is responsible for driving partner business and strategy in the UKI Region. In this role, he focuses on increasing Oracle’s share of wallet at our partners and subsequently Oracle market share; driving partners' transition to Oracle cloud and growing indirect and incremental revenue across the Oracle portfolio. Simon drives the UKI Alliances & Channels business and digital transformational innovation through Oracle cloud and converged systems partner solutions to meet customer business needs.

With 20+ years in the technology sector, Simon has spent much of his career in end user and partner sales and leadership roles but started his career as an Accountant. He has previously held positions at Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Sun Microsystems. Simon joined Oracle 5 years ago and has held roles in Oracle Customer Support Services and Oracle Alliances and Channels.