Rimini Street has appointed Martyn Hoogakker as GVP & General Manager for the EMEA Region. He replaces Emmanuelle Hose who was promoted to Global Vice President, Industry Solutions and Strategic Sales at the company. He has returned to Australia.
Rimini Street President and CEO Seth Ravin commented, “We are excited to welcome Martyn Hoogakker to the Rimini Street executive leadership team. His extensive and successful track record in sales and operations in notable organizations such as Adobe, Salesforce and Deloitte Consulting will be instrumental in our plans to accelerate growth and our success serving clients in the EMEA theatre.”
He will be responsible for leading the operations of the end-to-end enterprise software support, products and services provider across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
Who is Martyn Hoogakker
Hoogakker is an experienced Professional Services leader with extensive experience in building, transforming and leading Professional Services organisations in SaaS companies. This includes Services Delivery, Services Sales / Pre-Sales, Operations, Customer Success and Strategic Services for major accounts.
He spent his early career as a management consultant working for EY, Capgemini and Deloitte. He then moved to professional services leadership positions at Salesforce, SDL and Adobe. At Adobe, before joining Rimini Street, he was Senior Director, Professional Services Sales, EMEA.
Hoogakker has deep experience in leading teams and identifying opportunities internationally. He is an experienced operator. He has great knowledge working across Europe, Africa and India, working in multicultural teams to great effect.
Hoogakker commented, “I am thrilled to join Rimini Street in their mission to ‘deliver extraordinary technology solutions powered by extraordinary talent. Adding to our increasing number of clients across the region and just about every industry, I am enthused and ready to expand our footprint with differentiated enterprise software support and solutions that help our clients achieve their business growth and profitability goals.”
Enterprise Times: What does this mean
What is interesting about this appointment is that Hoogakker, like his predecessor, has no experience working within SAP or Oracle. Which is where most of Rimini Street’s revenues come from. However, his experience at Salesforce might help see him develop that practice further within EMEA for Rimini Street. Most of his engagements at the consulting firms were with CRM solutions. Though his experience at Salesforce was within the Marketing Cloud area.
