Oracle is one of several companies competing in the cloud computing sector.
Oracle has hired a longtime Amazon executive as its new chief marketing officer.
Ariel Kelman, who spent nearly nine years in senior marketing roles at Amazon Web Services, has been poached by Oracle to become its new executive vice president and CMO. Kelma joined AWS as head of worldwide marketing in 2011 before becoming VP of worldwide marketing in 2014.
Multiple Oracle spokespeople were unavailable for comment, but Kelman’s LinkedIn page lists his title as EVP and CMO as of January 2020. The news was first reported today by CNBC and comes less than a week after the departure of Rupal Shah Hollenbeck, who had been in the role of senior VP and CMO since December 2018.
