Eric McCluskey

Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis

Born:
Los Angeles

Prior Experience:
Hyperion Solutions – VP Corporate Finance
Mercury Interactive – Senior Director, Strategic Finance
i2 Technologies – Director of Finance
Aspect Development – Sr. Manager, Finance
Compaq Computer Corp – Finance Manager
Tandem Computers – Finance Manager


Education:
UC Berkeley - BA, Economics
Anderson School at UCLA - MBA

What I like to do outside of work:
Collecting and playing vintage acoustic guitars, backpacking in the Sierras, catching live music shows whenever possible, enjoying the many attractions of the SF Bay Area with my wife and two young daughters.

Q Where in your background did you learn the most?
A: If forced to pick one period it would have to be the six months I spent traveling throughout Asia and India with a backpack and only a sketch of an itinerary, where every paradigm that I took for granted growing up in California was challenged, and my perspective expanded accordingly.

Q: If you could meet one person in history, who would you meet and why?
A: Reading through other answers, quite a few of my top ten have already been taken! So off the top of my head… I’d like to sit down with Johannes Gutenberg and take him through an internet demo. Essentially show the originator of the mass communication revolution where it has evolved to today.

Q: What’s been your biggest surprise during your time at SuccessFactors?
A: The responsiveness and action oriented nature of this company. To use a computer analogy, most places have at least some semblance of batch processing, where this company comes the closest to real time I’ve seen. No moss growing at SFSF.

Q: If you had 20 seconds to tell a new client about why they should use SuccessFactors, what would you say?
A: Over the past few decades there have been major strides in applications to support almost every enterprise function: Sales, Finance, R&D Testing, etc. But what about to optimize an enterprise’s most valuable and expensive resource… it’s people? How is it that an executive can go on the intraweb and look up the formal performance guidelines and measures for a $2K laptop, but not for many of his/her highly compensated employees? Guess what... the cavalry is here, and we’re called SuccessFactors!

Q: Why are you proud to work at SuccessFactors?
A: I strongly believe in the value of the products we offer, the vision of how this value can expand, and the drive and passion of the team to deliver this value.