Management

Formerly the Chief Strategy Officer for Coremetrics, John Squire is now the Director of Digital Marketing for Enterprise Marketing Management at IBM. Squire joined IBM Coremetrics in 2001 and is responsible for setting the company’s vision of the market, technical strategy, and marketing for online marketing and business optimization solutions. John also is responsible for the development and management of IBM Coremetrics Connect™.

During his tenure at IBM Coremetrics, John has held executive responsibility for the product development and management, marketing, sales and business development departments. He joined IBM Coremetrics from Chemdex (IPO in 1999) where he was the senior director of product management and a member of the executive team. His team was responsible for developing the company product roadmap, delivering new products and services, evaluating new markets, and assessing and integrating partner technologies. John also held the positions of director of strategic partnerships and senior manager of sales operations. Prior to Chemdex, John worked for 3Com in market development where he developed and managed partnerships with Siemens, Fuji Medical Systems, Acuson, GE Medical, and other medical application providers. Prior to 3Com, John spent five years with Chevron Products, USA as a process engineer. John holds an M.B.A. with High Distinction from the University of Michigan and a B.S. with Highest Distinction in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.

Formerly vice president of worldwide sales at Coremetrics, Jeff Schmidt now leads Coremetrics sales for the Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) organization at IBM 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 EMM 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.