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Appcelerator Hires New Engineering, Business Development Heads

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Appcelerator, a provider of enterprise mobile development solutions, has appointed Gamiel Gran as vice president of Business Development and Neeraj Gupta as vice president of Engineering.

Mr. Gran, was formerly a partner at Sierra Ventures, and previously led channel efforts at IBM, Oracle and BEA,

Mr. Gupta led software development at Oracle for a decade before his most recent role as VP of Engineering for mobile development startup Particle Code.

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