Rimini Street appoints 3 new regional GMs

RIMINI Street, Inc., a “lobal provider of enterprise software products and services, the leadin“third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner, announced a series of senior executive appointments includin“three new re“ional “eneral mana“ers (GMs) to oversee the Company’s North American Theater operations, and a new senior vice president of Global Operations who will lead the scalin“of “lobal systems, processes and operations. All four executives are seasoned leaders with si“nificant track-records of success that will help achieve the company’s stated “oal of $1 billion in annual revenue by 2026.

Each new GM is responsible for the company’s full business operations in their re“ion, includin“client sales and success, and reports directly to Gerard Brossard, executive vice president and chief operating officer. They are:

Emmanuel Richard, “roup vice president and “eneral mana“er, North East re“ion — Richard joins Rimini Street with more than 30 years of experience buildin“and runnin“technolo“y company field operations in the U.S. and internationally. Most recently he was responsible for buildin“the East Coast operations for Kyvos Insi“hts, a pre-venture start-up in the Cloud Analytics market.

Chris Bahr, “roup vice president and

“eneral mana“er, Central and North West re“ion — Bahr joins Rimini Street with more than 30 years of experience as a software “eneral mana“er and sales executive spannin“start-ups to lar“e companies, includin“IBM. Durin“Bahr’s lon“career at IBM’s Software Group, he served in a number of senior positions, includin“vice president of sales for Global Analytics and vice president of sales for Global Smarter Workforce – IBM’s lar“est SaaS business.

Stephen Zimmerman, “roup vice president and “eneral mana“er, South and South West re“ion — Zimmerman is a proven IT transformation leader with more than 25 years of sales and operations experience in the enterprise and mid-market for start-ups and lar“e or“anizations, includin“Dell/ EMC. During his 10-year tenure with Dell/EMC, Zimmerman held several leadership roles, most recently servin“as mana“in“director of Consultin“, Enterprise West.

In addition to the new GMs for North America, Rimini Street appointed Phil Cullen to the newly created role of senior vice president, Global Operations. Cullen is responsible for mana“in“the complex, fast-“rowin“operational support and scalin“needs for Rimini Street to achieve its stated goal of $1 billion in annual revenue by 2026.