John Luongo
John Luongo has more than 39 years of chief executive and senior operations experience working with leading technology companies, including The Vantive Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Merrill, Pickard, Anderson and Eyre, and Tymshare, Inc. Currently, he is a consulting Venture Partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners. He is a member of the Board of Directors of StarAnalytics. He was a Board advisor to Lightspeed backed Virsa Systems which was sold to SAP in 2006 for $400 million.Most recently, Luongo was president, CEO and chairman of The Vantive Corporation, a leading customer relationship management (CRM) software provider. Joining in 1993, he took the company from $0.5M to more than $160M, including several rounds of financing and an IPO in 1995. During that time, he helped establish the company as a market leader and significantly shaped the CRM industry with technical innovation and groundbreaking new business practices. In 1998, he received Call Center Magazine's prestigious Call Center Pioneer Award, which honors individual contributions to the development of the call center industry. He created a strategic partnership between Vantive and PeopleSoft that led to the company’s acquisition by PeopleSoft in 1999 for approximately $540 million.
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