HomeAway CEO and Co-Founder Brian Sharples announced he will be stepping down and become chairman of the company until January 2017. The move follows HomeAway's acquisition by Expedia. A longtime Expedia executive, John Kim, will become HomeAway's new president.
Datical brought on Matt Fox as its VP of business development. He comes from Avenet, where he was VP and GM of education solutions, and he was previously a business development director at Ascendant Technology, which was acquired by Avnet in 2012. Datical also announced Jamie Erbes, who is director of customer engagement at Google Cloud, is a strategic advisor for Datical. She also has a background at HP Software, where she was CTO. Datical is also adding a new independent board member. Rick Jackson, CMO at Qlik and former CMO at Rackspace and VMware, is joining the board to help Datical scale.
Abracon Holdings, maker of frequency control, signal conditioning, clock distribution and magnetic components, hired Mike Calabria as President and CEO. Calabria, who joined the Board of Directors in March 2015, had been chief operating officer since August last year. Before Abracon, Calabria spent 35 years at Arrow Electronics in sales, marketing, operations, management and executive management roles.
Mozido, which makes digital commerce and payment software, hired Vince Padua as its executive vice president of product and development. Padua previously worked at IBM's Watson Group, Dell, and Intel. Mozido also hired Markus Remark as executive vice president of sales and services. He previously has worked at Oracle, TOA, Motive, Crossworlds and PeopleSoft.
Business Ink, a strategic business communications company, appointed John Keating as chief strategy officer. He was formerly the firm's chief technology officer. The company also named Jim Clishem as chief technology officer and senior vice president. He is a former senior consultant with Gerson Lehrman Group and former president and CEO of Transaction Wireless. Business Ink also promoted Vice President Mike Woods to a new position in charge of operations in Charlotte and San Diego.
Snow Software appointed John Clark as its president. Before that, Clark was VP at Flexera Software. He has also held management positions at Deloitte, Oracle and Noetix.
T3, and Austin-based tech marketing agency, named Christian Barnard, who was recently a vice president at Razorfish Group in Austin, as chief operating officer. And Nelan Schwartz, a former executive technology director at frog, is now T3's chief technology officer.