SumTotal® Systems, LLC, the largest independent provider of integrated
HR solutions, today announced that Hardeep Gulati, previously
SumTotal’s chief operating officer, has been appointed chief executive
officer of the company. As CEO, Mr. Gulati will lead a growth plan
focused on accelerating the adoption of SumTotal’s software-as-a-service
(SaaS) and Talent Expansion™ solutions, which improve employee
engagement and performance by proactively delivering relevant content
and interactions when and where employees need them.
SumTotal Systems Names Hardeep Gulati Chief Executive Officer (Photo: Business Wire)
“From the day he joined SumTotal’s executive team, Hardeep has had a
significant impact on SumTotal’s business,” said Martin Taylor,
Principal at Vista Equity Partners which purchased SumTotal in 2009.
"His success in aligning operations, combined with his technical
expertise, industry perspective and deep understanding of what drives
customer success will prove invaluable as SumTotal continues to evolve
its business to meet the myriad needs of a large and diverse customer
base that demands flexibility, choice and the ability to leverage data
analytics to drive strategic decision-making.”
Mr. Gulati joined SumTotal in 2011 as executive vice president of global
products and customer service after almost a decade at Oracle, where he
held several leadership positions, most recently as vice president of
product strategy. Since joining SumTotal, Mr. Gulati has played a key
leadership role in the deployment of numerous product development and
customer satisfaction initiatives, most recently overseeing the launch
of SumTotal’s groundbreaking human capital management and Talent
Expansion platform, elixHR™.
Mr. Gulati was named COO last year, assuming responsibility over several
business units including services, cloud operations, engineering and
customer support. As COO, Mr. Gulati successfully aligned and scaled
SumTotal’s operations to ensure superior, end-to-end customer service
and has been instrumental in expanding the company’s cloud business.
“SumTotal’s strong market position and recent innovations including elixHR™
platform, which enables a context-aware user experience, offer a
significant advantage in the rapidly evolving talent management and HR
software market,” said Gulati. “We understand that delivering customer
success is key to converting this advantage into opportunity and are
successfully partnering with our customers to ensure that our solutions
are driving value across their organizations. I am confident that
executing a strategy underpinned by customer success, product innovation
and operational excellence will accelerate SumTotal’s growth and
solidify the company as a true market leader.”
Mr. Gulati holds an MBA from Wharton School of Business and a Masters in
Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay,
India. He earned his BS in Computer Science from the National Institute
of Technology in Nagpur, India.
Previous CEO, John Borgerding, who led the successful expansion of
SumTotal and the integration of its acquired assets, will join Websense,
a recently acquired Vista company. As president and COO, Mr. Borgerding
will help lead the security software company’s transformation. He will
continue to be involved in SumTotal’s operations through the end of
January to assist in the transition and will remain a member of
SumTotal’s Board.
For more information on SumTotal’s executive team, visit http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/company/team/
About SumTotal Systems
SumTotal
Systems, LLC, the largest independent provider of integrated HR
solutions, is increasing the performance of some of the world’s most
successful organizations, including AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN[ADR]; London:
AZN), Amway (KUL: AMWAY), and Seagate (NYSE: STX). The only HR solution
provider to deliver Talent Expansion, a whole new approach to
discovering, developing and unleashing hidden potential within our
customers’ workforce, SumTotal delivers employee enablement solutions
that help organizations become great places to work. SumTotal’s
people-focused applications, available on premise and in the Cloud,
enable contextual, just-in-time development designed to advance
employees’ skills and knowledge. Today, more than 3,500 organizations,
including several of Fortune’s “Best Places to Work,” rely on SumTotal’s
on premise and cloud-based Talent Expansion applications to enable their
employees.
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