
As vice president of worldwide sales, Jeff Schmidt reports to Joe Davis, President and CEO and will use his extensive expertise of growing successful on-demand businesses, and of building sales, marketing and operational teams at an international level, to drive the next phase of the company's growth. Schmidt brings over 15 years of information systems and technology experience to the IBM Coremetrics executive team. Schmidt was previously vice president of the enterprise business unit at WebEx (NASDQ: WEBX) where his main responsibilities included contributing to strategic and operational planning, implementing and executing to market expectations and ensuring that annual plans were well designed. He also held various other roles at WebEx, including vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific and Japan, having established the company's Asia Pacific operation; and he also created the WebEx Global Channel and Alliances program. Schmidt was a key contributor to the company's success when it was named one of the Forbes 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies (2003-2005), and during this time, company revenues grew from approximately $140 million to over $308 million.
Prior to WebEx, Schmidt served as vice president and general manager, The Americas, at Blue Pumpkin Software, and also as director of global account sales for Lucent technologies (NYSE:LU). Schmidt has also held senior positions at Octel Communications and VMX Systems, Inc. He holds a BA in Communications, Sales and Marketing from California State University, Northridge.