Rick Faulk Joins Landslide As CEO

Rick Faulk has joined Landslide Technologies as president and CEO. Faulk will also serve on Landslide’s board of directors.

Faulk joins Landslide from Mzinga, a marketing, customer support, and human resources firm where he was CEO and President since the company’s launch in 2007.

Prior to Mzinga, he was WebEx Communications’ CMO and president of WebEx Small Business, and was a member of the executive team that sold WebEx to Cisco.

He also served as CEO of Intranets.com; CMO at Picturetel; CEO of First Software; and VP of worldwide marketing at Lotus Development Corp.

The company also announced it has secured $8 million in growth capital. The financing round was led by Adams Capital Management, and included participation by current investors and board members Draper Triangle Ventures and Osage Ventures, as well as several current individual investors.

Landslide Technologies offers Landslide CRM, a customer relationship management solution.