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Short Take: PeopleSoft top exec steps down

After nine years at PeopleSoft, Al Duffield, the brother of the firm's CEO, Dave Duffield, will step down as senior vice president of field operations and retire from the company later this year. Howard Gwin, who has been PeopleSoft's head of international sales, will take over the top sales spot.

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
After nine years at Al Duffield, the brother of the firm's CEO, Dave Duffield, will step down as senior vice president of field operations and retire from the company later this year. Howard Gwin, who has been PeopleSoft's head of international sales, will take over the top sales spot.