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Short Take: PeopleSoft names new vice chairman

PeopleSoft has named 33-year-old Aneel Bhusri as the business software firm's new vice chairman. Bhusri, who served as vice president of PeopleSoft marketing for several years, is also now a member of the firm's board of directors. Bhusri joined PeopleSoft in 1993. He previously worked as an associate at Norwest Venture Partners and spent several years in Morgan Stanley's corporate finance organization. He also sits on the boards of Marimba, WiData, and STC.

Kim Girard
Kim Girard has written about business and technology for more than a decade, as an editor at CNET News.com, senior writer at Business 2.0 magazine and online writer at Red Herring. As a freelancer, she's written for publications including Fast Company, CIO and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She also assisted Business Week's Peter Burrows with his 2003 book Backfire, which covered the travails of controversial Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. An avid cook, she's blogged about the joy of cheap wine and thinks about food most days in ways some find obsessive.
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Kim Girard
PeopleSoft has named 33-year-old Aneel Bhusri as the business software firm's new vice chairman. Bhusri, who served as vice president of PeopleSoft marketing for several years, is also now a member of the firm's board of directors. Bhusri joined in 1993. He previously worked as an associate at Norwest Venture Partners and spent several years in Morgan Stanley's corporate finance organization. He also sits on the boards of Marimba, WiData, and STC.