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Planful Sharpens Focus on Global Growth With Promotion of Pier Barattolo to Chief Sales Officer
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire-Asianet/ --

--During Period of Record-breaking Sales, New Executive Role Will Empower 
  Planful To Accelerate International and Channel Partner Expansions While 
  Continuing to Enhance Customer Value

Planful Inc., the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software, 
today announced the promotion of Pier Barattolo to Chief Sales Officer, a new 
position. Previously Planful's Senior Vice President, North America Sales, 
Barattolo now oversees sales in all distribution channels, globally.

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"Planful is growing at a record-breaking pace, and Pier has been instrumental 
in this success through rapid expansion of the sales organization and improving 
sales metrics to best-in-class levels," said Planful's Chief Executive Officer, 
Grant Halloran. "Our mission is a global one: to save companies from the 
miseries of running financial processes with outdated, or no, systems. Pier's 
career experiences, along with his incredible results at Planful, give us 
extreme confidence that his leadership across all global sales will accelerate 
execution of the mission."

Barattolo joined Planful in 2019 as Senior Vice President, North America Sales. 
During his twenty-plus years leading hypergrowth sales and client services 
teams prior to Planful, Barattolo has held a range of global executive sales 
roles including chief revenue officer and vice president of regional and 
worldwide sales at companies such as Cognos, Business Objects, DataSift, and 
Density.

The promotion of Barattolo to Chief Sales Officer gives Planful a strong global 
leader to continue the record-breaking momentum Planful has experienced in 
international and channel sales ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3594060-1&h=2534194907&u=https%3A%2F%2Fplanful.com%2Fpressrelease%2Fplanful-achieves-record-breaking-growth-in-2021-driven-by-market-demand-and-transformation-strategy&a=record-breaking+momentum+Planful+has+experienced+in+international+and+channel+sales 
) in recent years, including 2021 results of 110% growth in international 
customer additions and over 400% growth in channel subscriptions bookings.

"In recent years, Planful has grown into an undisputed heavyweight champion in 
our market. To stay there, we will continue to scale our teams with amazing 
people around the world," said Barattolo. "I'm honored for the opportunity to 
serve everyone on our team in this expanded role."

About Planful

Planful is the pioneer of cloud financial performance management cloud 
software. The Planful platform is used by the Office of the CFO around the 
globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, 
reporting, and visual analytics. Planful empowers users to plan confidently, 
close faster, and report accurately. More than 1000 customers, including Boston 
Red Sox, Del Monte, TGI Friday's, and 23andMe, rely on Planful to accelerate 
cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy across the end-to-end 
FP&A process. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading 
global private equity firm. Learn more at www.planful.com.

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