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John Ruthven is executive vice president for worldwide sales operations at CA, responsible for the company's global sales platform. He is also a member of CA's Executive Leadership Team which defines and ensures execution of the Company's business and technical strategies.
John is targeted with developing and supporting methods, systems, processes and best practices to increase CA's field efficiency and effectiveness. This includes optimizing the coverage model, increasing field productivity, the design and deployment of sales compensation plans and forecast and pipeline management.
An Australian national, John joined CA in 1996 as a sales representative in Sydney, Australia. He has since held a variety of sales management positions and in October 1997 accepted the post of regional managing director, Pacific.
In June 2002, he took on additional responsibility as vice president of sales operations for Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) and two years later was promoted to senior vice president and general manager, APJ.
John holds a bachelor of education degree with post-graduate studies in both management and marketing. | 