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Former Oracle exec has an Epiphany

Anthony Leach leaves the business software company to work for Epiphany, a start-up focused on the embryonic Enterprise Relationship Management market.

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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A senior executive in Oracle's consulting business has left the business software company to work for Epiphany, a start-up focused on the embryonic Enterprise Relationship Management (ERM) market.

Anthony Leach is now Epiphany's executive vice president of operations and services, a newly created position within the Palo Alto, California-based firm. Leach has more than two decades of IT management consulting experience, working most recently at Oracle and at KPMG, where he spent 20 years.

Leach left his post as senior vice president of Oracle's 13,000-person, $1.5 billion consulting business last month. After four years with Oracle, Leach said he was looking for a new challenge.

"Clearly there was an attraction to going to a startup," he said. "This was an ideal opportunity."

Epiphany makes software that helps companies extract and analyze transactional data from across an enterprise to improve business strategies and better target sales.

The two-year-old company competes with Siebel Systems in this emerging space, though business software giants such as SAP and PeopleSoft are also quickly moving into the market as well.