Jeffrey L. Walker Joins Alight Board of Directors
Alight LLC, developers of the industry-leading Alight Planning financial planning and reporting software, today announced the appointment of Jeffrey L. Walker to its Board of Directors. Founder of two Silicon Valley software companies and founder of Oracle’s Applications Division, Walker will help the Alight management team with market strategies and industry partnerships, in addition to other Board Member duties.
Walker is a recognized serial entrepreneur and business leader. A graduate of Brown University, Walker spent his early business career at Walt Disney Productions and Signal Oil & Gas Company. In 1980 he founded Walker Interactive Products, a financial applications software company which delivered real-time and database-oriented accounting systems to a batch-processing marketplace. In 1985, he joined Oracle Corporation where he held the positions of Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Applications Division, Chief Financial Officer, and Senior Vice President of Marketing. As head of Oracle Applications, he was the driving force behind Oracle’s first application products, building the division to over four hundred developers. After Oracle, Walker founded TenFold Corporation, a software company which developed large scale applications for a range of vertical businesses. TenFold became a public company in 1999.
In announcing the appointment, Rand Heer, Alight CEO, said: “Jeff has credentials as a software entrepreneur and finance chief, a no-nonsense approach to management and decision making, and insights into what it takes to go to market in key verticals of interest to Alight. This package makes Jeff a perfect fit for Alight at this time in our growth cycle. The Alight management team is looking forward to working with Jeff across many project areas.”
“It is a real pleasure to work with such a terrific, savvy team in a market that is ripe for a homerun product,” said Walker. “Planning sophistication varies dramatically from business to business in all industries. The best-run companies use integrated and agile planning techniques that differentiate their management accountability and awareness and, thus, set them above their competitors in earnings, growth, and reaction time. Alight’s founder, Rand Heer, is, in my mind, the leading innovator in this exploding software segment.”
About Alight LLC
Alight LLC’s Alight Planning is a true driver-based financial planning and reporting software package that automates complex business modeling for more accurate strategic plans, revenue projections, budgets and rolling forecasts. Its unique architectures and easy-to-use interfaces provide finance staff the power they need to build complex driver-based planning models, while delivering traditional budgeting and planning structures such as line item detail, integrated financial statements and multiple-user security. Cost-effective and IT-independent, Alight Planning is affordable and easily deployed by Fortune 500 business units, as well as midmarket companies with limited IT resources. Alight has over 200 customers including Kaiser Permanente, Pittsburgh Mercy, the Swan and Dolphin Resort at Disney World and Verizon Wireless. For more information about Alight Planning, visit http://www.AlightPlanning.com or call 800-960-7717.
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