John ApplebyJohn has 23 years experience in the European IT industry. He has led the large systems sales team for IBM, has been Country Manager for Sun Microsystems (Ireland), and latterly Managing Director and main board member for Oracle EMEA. In 2000, John founded Salesforce.com's international distribution business in Europe and joined Saaspoint in 2005.
Frank McCracken Frank is a 20 year industry veteran. He has held technical consulting and management consulting positions with IBM, Cap Gemini Sogeti and was a key member of the team which founded and launched Salesforce.com EMEA. Frank has successfully managed Software-as-a-Service projects for hundreds of customers and thousands of users. Frank is a founder of Saaspoint. At this stage in his career, Frank is widely accepted to be one of the most experienced consultants in the worldwide on-demand marketplace.
Jim has been in the IT industry for 25 years. He was IP Manager at Halliburton Inc responsible for business software and managed projects rolling out Microsoft Office, SAP, PeopleSoft and Documnetum. In 1987 he funded Aptus Solutions as a boutique consultancy for which he was Managing Director for 7 years growing the company to 30 consultants. In 2004 he joined Sword Group to grow the UK consulting business. In 5 years the UK business grew from £4m to £100m turnover where Jim ran the Document management, search, SAP and infrastructure support businesses. Jim has the reputation of building small niche businesses into the market leader in their field.