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Graham Younger joining Nova as COO

By TechTaffy Desk

Graham Younger will be joining Nova as president and chief operating officer. Mr. Younger joins Nova from Box, where he has served as executive vice president, Worldwide Field Operations, since February 2014. He will be reporting to Nova CEO Lincoln Wallen.

Early in his career, Mr. Younger worked for IBM and Oracle in a variety of sales and management positions in London, before moving to the U.S. in 2005 with Cramer Systems. Following the acquisition of Cramer by Amdocs in 2006, Mr. Younger rejoined Oracle as global vice president of Sales. In 2011, Mr. Younger joined SuccesssFactors, prior to the company’s $3.4 billion acquisition by SAP.

Nova is a newly formed technology business from DreamWorks Animation, and provides a media visualization platform.

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