Perforce announced new management and leadership changes. Janet Dryer was named CEO, and Tim Russell was appointed Chief Product Officer, bringing experience from NetApp. The company is focused on providing world-class customer support through quality assurance practices and a deep technical talent base. Perforce has also seen accomplishments like growth in its enterprise Git solution and code review usage.
2. Perforce – Under New
Management
Konrad Litwin
klitwin@perforce.com
Tag:BOABB
3. Global Team
Janet Dryer
CEO
Mark Ties
CFO
Colleen Kulhanek
VP, Marketing
Steve Jezierski
VP, Sales
North America
Tony Smith
VP, Engineering
Konrad Litwin
Managing Director,
International
4. New Chief Product Officer
Tim Russell
Chief Product Officer
• Previously VP of Product Management at NetApp
for 9 years
• Extensive experience building commercial
software: NetApp, SafeNet, and Secure Computing
• Saw a vision > Set the Roadmap
• Invested in us personally.
9. Quality Matters The Little Ice Rink
• We use our own technology to ensure quality
• We store every change in Perforce
• Our products are subjected to a total of
170,000 automated tests and we don’t
release one until it passes all
• QA works side by side with our developers
• Code reviews in Swarm to catch problems
before submitting code
10. Deep Technical Talent
70% of our employee
base consists of
technical staff
• Leverage our experts this week
• Many familiar faces and names
11. Customer Feedback
• Customer surveys
• MERGE and other conferences
• Customer support desk
• Customer Advisory Group
• Beta program feedback
• Partner relationships
12. Accomplished
• Great traction on our enterprise-grade
Git solution
• Large deployments of our native DVCS
• Significant performance improvements
in our core
• 10x growth in code review usage
• Helix in simplified Chinese, Japanese,
and Korean
13. Dev Focus – NOW not later
Unified Experience
With Helix
Helix Cloud
Git Enterprise
Management
Helix Core