Lars Dalgaard
Chief Executive Officer
Doug Dennerline
President
Bruce Felt
Chief Financial Officer
Jay Larson
VP, Field Operations
Aaron Au
Chief Technical Officer
Jeff Diana
Chief People Officer
Hillary B. Smith
General Counsel
Kara Wilson
Chief Marketing Officer
Paul Sparta
Chief Integration Officer

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Lars Dalgaard

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Born: Aarhus, Denmark
Years lived and worked in the US: 16
Years lived and worked in Europe : 28
Languages spoken: Danish, English, German, Italian, French and with less fluency Dutch, Spanish, Swedish

Lars has an undying passion to release the magic of every person in and outside the workplace. Since Lars founded SuccessFactors in the middle of the worst tech crisis in history 2001, SuccessFactors has had a compound annual revenue growth rate of approximately 75% , with a current sales run rate of $364 million, and is the fastest growing Business Application Cloud company of its’ size, and the second largest in revenue, delivering 19 Cloud applications to enable Business Execution.

Today, SuccessFactors has more than 3,500 customers in 168 countries, in 34 languages, 60 different industries and with more than 15 million paying recurring users, the most in the Application Cloud. Listed on NYSE, the French and German exchange.

Lars was chosen as “Best CEO of a large company” in the 2010 San Francisco Business Times Innovation and Technology Awards, and E&Y “Entrepreneur of the year” in 2009. Mr. Dalgaard holds a Bsc. (Ha) from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and a M.S. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business as a Sloan Fellow.

Prior to SuccessFactors, Lars was 5 and 3 years with Unilever and Novartis respectively, in 5 different countries,(Germany, Switzerland, USA, Holland, Denmark), with roles in global M&A, Corporate Finance and Controlling, Sales, running a global business unit, and was a local company CEO, consolidating 5 acquisitions into one company, that gained 80% market share.