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Sage appoints another top female tech leader
Newcastle-headquartered technology leader Sage has announced the appointment of Soni Jiandani as a Non-executive Director, set to take effect on 28 February 2017.
The former SVP Marketing of California tech conglomerate Cisco, Ms Jiandani will add to Sage’s top talent pool of female tech leaders after the multinational recruited Jacqueline de Rojas last year.
During Ms Jiandani’s 22 years at Cisco she was part of a team which was responsible for a number of successes and helped establish multi-billion dollar revenue streams for the company in the Switching, Storage Networking and Server markets.
She was also part of the teams that established startups which Cisco first funded and later acquired entering new adjacent markets and building successful businesses.
Prior to joining Cisco, Ms Jiandani was a marketing executive at UB Networks and prior to that she was with Excelan which was acquired by Novell.
Commenting on the appointment, Donald Brydon, Chairman, said: “I am delighted that Soni is joining the Sage Board.
“Her experience of driving industry transformation through market disruption as well as her extensive marketing experience will help drive the continued transformation of Sage.”
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