Workday, Inc. (NYSE:WDAY) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain OfficersItem 5.02
Workday, Inc. (“Workday”) announced that today Robynne Sisco and Chano Fernandez had been appointed Co-Presidents of Workday. Ms.Sisco will also continue to serve as Workday’s Chief Financial Officer and Mr.Fernandez will continue to have responsibility for Workday’s global field operations.
Ms.Sisco, 52, joined Workday in 2012 as Chief Accounting Officer and has been our Chief Financial Officer since April 2016. Prior to joining Workday, Ms.Sisco served as Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller at VMware, a global provider of business infrastructure virtualization solutions, from June 2009 to August 2012. Ms.Sisco also previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at VeriSign, held senior finance positions at Oracle, Visa, General Electric and Ford, and currently serves on one private company board.
Mr.Fernandez, 48, joined Workday in 2014 as President, EMEA and APJ and was promoted to Executive Vice President, Global Field Operations in February 2017. Prior to joining Workday, Mr.Fernandez served as Senior Vice President and Head of Innovation Sales at SAP EMEA from 2007 to 2013. From 2002 to 2007, Mr.Fernandez was Vice President of EMEA sales at Infor, responsible for global and large accounts. Prior to that, Mr.Fernandez served as a Founding Partner and General Manager at Blue C, and as a Senior Consultant for McKinsey& Company.
Additionally, effective February1, 2018, Mark Peek and Phil Wilmington, Workday’s prior Co-Presidents, were appointed to serve as Managing Director and Co-Head of Workday Ventures and Vice Chairman of Workday, respectively.
About Workday, Inc. (NYSE:WDAY)
Workday, Inc. is a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. The Company delivers financial management, human capital management and analytics applications designed for various companies, educational institutions and government agencies. It operates in the cloud applications segment. As part of its applications, the Company provides embedded analytics that capture the content and context of everyday business events, facilitating informed decision-making from wherever users are working. Its applications include Workday Financial Management, Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and Workday Insight Applications. It also provides open, standards-based Web-services application programming interfaces, and pre-built packaged integrations and connectors. Workday Financial Management provides the finance functions of general ledger, global accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable and cash management and asset management, among others.
