Chuck Piercey

Director of Business Development at Nokia

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Director Business Development at Nokia
Past

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Education
  • University of California, Los Angeles - The Anderson School of Management
  • Stanford University
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Industry
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Chuck Piercey’s Summary

Strong balance of strategy, technical, marketing, business and communication skills for software and hardware products. Extensive experience in sales, product management, pricing, forecasting, market research, public relations, partner management, developer marketing and marquee account management for highly technical software and hardware products. Excel at distilling market opportunities and key customer requirements into realistic set of strategic business objectives and then building and leading a cross-functional team to achieve those objectives.

Chuck Piercey’s Specialties:

Product Strategy, Product Management, Product Marketing, Business Management, Technology Evangelism

Chuck Piercey’s Experience

  • Director Business Development

    Nokia

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK; Telecommunications industry)

    August 2008 — Present (5 months)

    The Qt unified development platform offers high developer productivity, polished user solutions, broad device reach, and fast time to market. Qt is uniquely able to address a large number of device types with a single code stream while leveraging the native features of each device.

  • VP Product Management

    Trolltech Inc.

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; TROLL; Computer Software industry)

    August 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 2 months)

    The Qt unified development platform offers high developer productivity, polished user solutions, broad device reach, and fast time to market. Qt is uniquely able to address a large number of device types with a single code stream while leveraging the native features of each device.

  • Director Product Management

    Nokia

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK; Telecommunications industry)

    June 2008 — September 2008 (4 months)

    The Qt unified development platform offers high developer productivity, polished user solutions, broad device reach, and fast time to market. Qt is uniquely able to address a large number of device types with a single code stream while leveraging the native features of each device.

  • Senior Director, Labs

    Business Objects

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BOBJ; Computer Software industry)

    February 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 7 months)

    Pioneered completely new mobile BI product line generating a broad mobile patent and a new line of business. Pioneered end-to-end web services product suite generating multiple suite-wide innovations. See labs.businessobjects.com & youtube.com/watch?v=cAomjs3hIZk

  • Senior Director of Product Management, New Initiatives

    Business Objects

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BOBJ; Computer Software industry)

    August 2002 — January 2006 (3 years 6 months)

    Pioneered end-to-end Trusted BI product suite, generating three patents and a core of Business Objects XI feature differentiation. See www.businessobjects.com/global/pdf/solutions/midmarket_query_analysis.pdf). Acquisition team for Crystal Decisions company integration.

  • Director of Product Management, Acta Data Platform

    Acta Technology, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; BOBJ; Computer Software industry)

    July 1999 — August 2002 (3 years 2 months)

    Led product team to deliver first real time data integration product and the ActaWorks products suite (ref: www.dmreview.com/whitepaper/ebizb.pdf). Created worldwide pricing strategy and rolled out sales quoting system. Led acquisition integration into Business Objects.

  • Division Business Manager, Visual Computing Business Unit

    Silicon Graphics, Inc.

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SGI; Computer Hardware industry)

    April 1998 — June 1999 (1 year 3 months)

    Managed team of product managers to deliver 320/540 Windows NT-based visualization workstations combining SGI graphics engine and Dell’s pricing strategy (www.leupen.com/~remko/sgi/overview.htm)

  • Senior Product Line Manager, Entry Workstation Products Division

    Silicon Graphics, Inc.

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SGI; Computer Hardware industry)

    April 1996 — April 1998 (2 years 1 month)

    Managed team of product managers to deliver SGI O2 Unix-based visualization workstation Operating System (ref: http://www.answers.com/topic/sgi-visual-workstation).

  • Strategic Marketing Manager, Component Software

    Apple Computer, Inc.

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AAPL; Computer Software industry)

    April 1994 — July 1996 (2 years 4 months)

    Led evangelism team to deliver 100 independent software vendor applications committed to the OpenDoc standard. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc.

  • Developer Tools Product Manager

    Apple Computer, Inc.

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AAPL; Computer Software industry)

    June 1992 — June 1994 (2 years 1 month)

    Led engineering team to deliver AppleScript system multilingual scripting language and visual development tool. Applescript continues to do well in OS X today: http://www.apple.com/applescript/macosx/

  • Consultant

    Piercey Associates (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

    February 1988 — June 1990 (2 years 5 months)

    Conceived and built up software consulting practice for end-to-end delivery of custom software solutions.

  • Marketing Representative

    IBM-ROLM Systems, Inc.

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Telecommunications industry)

    February 1986 — February 1988 (2 years 1 month)

    Delivered $1M in PBX system sales from the San Francisco South Bay Area region. Completed ROLM PBX Configuration Engineering course (100% score).

  • Product Marketing Analyst

    ROLM Systems, Inc.

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ROLM; Telecommunications industry)

    September 1984 — February 1986 (1 year 6 months)

    Delivered pricing strategy, operating plan & market opportunity analysis for ROLMbus 295 PBX integrated voice and data architecture (www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/253/ibmsj2503a4M.pdf). Completed IBM Manufacturing Forecasting course. ROLM was purchased by IBM.

  • Sales Representaive

    Office Outfitters

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    June 1983 — December 1983 (7 months)

    Sales representative for CPM-86, DOS and QoS desktop computers including Eagle, Sanyo and Epson brands.

  • Sales Engineer, Financial Analyst

    Trimax Controls

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 1980 — June 1983 (2 years 10 months)

    Part time sales engineer and P&L financial analyst for this energy controls startup company.

  • Volunteer

    Project Nepal

    (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; International Trade and Development industry)

    September 1979 — June 1980 (10 months)

    Volunteer worker in foothills of Nepal for remote village sanitation, smokeless efficient wood burning stoves, vegetable gardening and weekly medical clinic.

Chuck Piercey’s Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles - The Anderson School of Management

    MBA, High Technology Management, 1990 — 1992

    • 2nd year Thesis: US market potential of and distribution strategy for Apple KanjiTalk OS,
    • Term Project: Business plan for Apple's Inter-Application Communication architecture (led to recruitment by Apple for the developer tools product management position),
    • Term Research: Competitive analysis of the Japanese software industry

    Activities and Societies:
    Vice President of the International Business Club, MBA Water Polo '91 and '92 intramural 'A' league water polo champions.

  • Stanford University

    BA, English, 1978 — 1983

    • Deans list. GPA: 3.6/4.0,

    Activities and Societies:
    Computer Department Teaching Assistant in Pascal Programming, Business School Speaker and PR Training Coach, Stanford AAU Water Polo squad, Apple University Management Trainer

Additional Information

Chuck Piercey’s Websites:

Chuck Piercey’s Interests:

Walking, running, backpacking, camping, reading, swimming, water polo, surfing, gardening, building ponds, land management and wildlands restoration.

Chuck Piercey’s Groups:

Stanford University Alumni,
Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA Alumni,
IEEE,
FCC licenses: KG6IRZ (HA), WPTS483 (ZA),
Volunteer Radio Officer, Certified Emergency Response Team (CERT), City of Mountain View, Business Objects Software, 15 year Quicken user, 5 year MoneyDance user, experienced conference speaker: http://resources.businessobjects.com/video/emeainsight07/EMEA_Insight_2007_SalVisca.wmv

  •    UCLA Anderson Alumni Network
  •    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
  •    280 Group
  •    Nokia Alumni (past and present)
  •    Sustainable MBA Network
  •    Business Intelligence Professionals
  •    Business Objects Alumni
  •    Apple Alumni
  •    Green
  •    Stanford University Alumni
  •    BOBJ Alumni
  •    Apple - Current and Former Employees
  •    Nokia Alumni USA
  •    Ex-SGI
  •    Open Source in Business
  •    ROLM Corporation Alumni
  •    Telecom Industry

Chuck Piercey’s Honors:

Patents pending:
- Apparatus And Method For Report Invocation and Manipulation On a Mobile Communication Device
- Apparatus and Method for Facilitating Trusted Business Intelligence
- Apparatus and Method for Facilitating Trusted Business Intelligence through Data Context
- Apparatus and Method for Generating Reports from Versioned Data

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