Frank A. Calderoni

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Frank A. Calderoni
NationalityAmerican
EducationPace University (MBA), Fordham University (B.S.)
OccupationChairman and CEO of Anaplan
TitleRed Hat Inc. (Executive Staff)
Adobe Inc. (Board Member)

Frank A. Calderoni is an American businessman. He is the current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Anaplan.[1][2]

Education[]

Calderoni entered Fordham University, where he received a Bachelor of Science in accounting and finance. He also received an MBA from Pace University in New York.[citation needed]

Career[]

IBM[]

Calderoni started his career at IBM where he was employed for 21 years.[3] While at IBM he served as Vice President of Global Small Business and held controller responsibilities for several divisions, including global small business, storage systems, and the server group.[4]

Cisco[]

In 2007, Calderoni became CFO of Cisco.[5][6][7] Calderoni's work at Cisco centered on sales and services and for the decision support model on Cisco investments.[8] In 2004, Calderoni accepted a position with Cisco Systems from QLogic Corporation, a storage networking company where he was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.[9][10] From 2002 until 2000 he was the senior vice president and CFO of Sandisk Corp, a flash data storage company.[11][12]

Red Hat[]

In 2015, Calderoni became the chief financial officer and vice president in charge of operations.[12][13] In 2016, Calderoni left Red Hat, to accept a position as CEO for another company.[14][15]

Anaplan[]

In 2017, Calderoni was appointed Chairman and CEO of Anaplan, then a privately held startup.[16] This is Calderoni's first CEO role. Under his leadership the company raised $60 million in Series F funding, which valued Anaplan at $1.3 billion, and grew to over 1,000 employees by April 2018.[17][18] It held an IPO in October 2018, and its shares rose almost 43% by the end of the first day of trading.[19] Anaplan is listed on the New York Stock Exchange as PLAN.[20][21] The company’s business performance has improved under Calderoni, with subscription sales growing 57%, 45%, and 48% from 2018-2020.[21] In Nov. 2020, total revenue grew 28.5% year-over-year, and Anaplan was listed as one of the favorite stocks of TipRanks’ best-performing analysts.[22]

Publications[]

  • Upstanding: How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility and Hypergrowth[23]

Honors and awards[]

Institutional Investor Magazine voted Calderoni one of the best CFO of 2012, 2013, and 2014.[24]

In 2013, San Francisco Business Times honored Calderoni CFO of the Year for a public company with revenues above $500 million.[24]

References[]

  1. ^ Chin, Maureen Farrell and Kimberly. "Anaplan Shares Surge 43% in Debut, Shrugging Off Market Turmoil". WSJ. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  2. ^ "Anaplan hits the ground running with strong stock market debut up over 42 percent". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  3. ^ Gale, Michael. "Podcast - Frank Calderoni, CEO Anaplan: The Future Is Collaborative Everything". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
  4. ^ "Frank Calderoni, Red Hat". CNBC. 2015-07-21. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  5. ^ "Cisco Profit Up 25%; Routers and Switches in Demand". The New York Times. Associated Press. 2007-08-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  6. ^ Hardy, Quentin (2014-11-12). "Cisco Systems Income Falls, but Quarterly Revenue Sets Record as Pressures Mount". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  7. ^ Dockter, DuWayne L. (2013-04-24). "Dos and Don'ts in Designing an Annual Financial Report Project: "A Teacher's Perspective"". Journal of Curriculum and Teaching. 2 (1): 105–129. ISSN 1927-2677 – via ERIC.
  8. ^ Reese, Brad (2009-09-25). "John Chambers slams Cisco with $2.3 million in private jet expense". Network World. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  9. ^ Ambasna-Jones, Marc (2017-04-25). "From CFO to CEO: Does Anaplan's new boss have a plan?". IDG. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  10. ^ "Adobe - Board of Directors". www.adobe.com. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  11. ^ "Frank A. Calderoni". www.bloomberg.com. 2019-01-05. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b Cohan, Peter S. (2019). Scaling Your Startup: Mastering the Four Stages from Idea to $10 Billion. New York, NY: Springer Science+Business Media. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-4842-4312-1.
  13. ^ Darrow, Barb (2015-06-22). "Red Hat taps former Cisco exec as new CFO". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  14. ^ Stevenson, Abigial (2016-12-22). "Red Hat CEO sheds light on the real reason its CFO is leaving". CNBC. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  15. ^ Schubarth, Cromwell (2016-12-22). "Ex-Cisco CFO quits Red Hat to be CEO at as-yet-unnamed company". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  16. ^ "Cloud Financials Unicorn Anaplan Hires Red Hat Exec as CEO". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  17. ^ Swinhoe, Dan (2018-03-28). "Anaplan CEO: We no longer fit the traditional startup model". IDG. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  18. ^ Cohan, Peter. "With $300M In Capital, Anaplan Is Taking $100M+ Bite Out Of IBM, Oracle In $20B Market". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  19. ^ Novet, Jordan (2018-10-12). "Anaplan surges in market debut after rocky week for tech stocks". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  20. ^ Kilgore, Tomi. "Anaplan's stock opens 43% above IPO price". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
  21. ^ Jump up to: a b Markman, Jon. "How Anaplan Disrupts the Planning Industry". Markman on Tech. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
  22. ^ Tipranks.com, Maya Sasson (2020-11-29). "Top Wall Street analysts are betting on these stocks heading into December". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
  23. ^ Calderoni, Frank A. (2021). Upstanding : how company character catalyzes loyalty, agility, and hypergrowth. Hoboken, New Jersey. ISBN 978-1-119-74656-0. OCLC 1237649201.
  24. ^ Jump up to: a b "Announcing the 2013 CFOs of the Year: Visa, Cisco, NetSuite, Recology, Lending Club, Stanford Hospital & Clinics, and Alameda County Community Food Bank". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
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