REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA), the world's number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced that Margaret Breya has joined the company as chief marketing officer and executive vice president, responsible for worldwide marketing. Breya brings more than 25 years of marketing leadership experience at enterprise software category leaders including SAP, Business Objects, and BEA as well as IT industry leaders including HP and Sun Microsystems.
"I am delighted to welcome Marge to Informatica. She is an accomplished executive with broad-based marketing experience at category-defining organizations," said Sohaib Abbasi, chairman and chief executive officer of Informatica. "Marge is exceptionally qualified to help drive our next growth phase by further expanding our market opportunities shaped by secular technology megatrends including cloud computing and big data."
"Informatica is uniquely positioned to solve today's toughest information challenges. As enterprise data moves through many mobile devices to disparate clouds, data centers and external partners, smart and pragmatic big data solutions become an IT imperative," said Breya. "This is Informatica's core competency and we can deliver on it better than anyone else."
As HP's senior vice president of Marketing Services, Breya was most recently responsible for optimizing marketing investment across the world's largest IT company. Prior to HP, Breya served as executive vice president and general manager at SAP. Breya has also held positions as executive vice president, general manager and chief marketing officer at Business Objects, chief marketing officer and chief strategy officer at BEA Systems and senior vice president of Marketing at Sun Microsystems.
Breya received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and a Master's of Business Administration from the University of Oregon.
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Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA) is the world's number one independent provider of data integrationsoftware. Organizations around the world rely on Informatica for maximizing return on data to drive their top business imperatives. Worldwide, over 5,000 enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets residing on-premise, in the Cloud and across social networks. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com. Connect with Informatica at http://www.facebook.com/InformaticaCorporation, http://www.linkedin.com/company/informatica and http://twitter.com/InformaticaCorp.
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