PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 1, 2014) - Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ: CALD), a leading provider of sales and marketing effectiveness software, announced today that Rory Cameron, senior vice president of corporate development and channels, has been named one of CRN's 2014 Channel Chiefs.

This prestigious list of the most powerful leaders in the IT channel recognizes those executives directly responsible for driving channel sales and growth within their organization, while evangelizing the importance of the channel throughout the entire IT Industry.

CallidusCloud has quadrupled its resell deal volume year-over-year, as well as adding more than 30 partners in 2013 and expanding further into both Latin America and APAC. CallidusCloud has also established a strong developer community, extending new features across all products and enabling customers to leverage both its API and partner apps to maximize performance.

"Our Channel team has been instrumental in helping us to secure more than 60 percent of the top global CRM integrators as partners," said Rory Cameron, senior vice president of corporate development and channels at CallidusCloud. "This recognition is due to the efforts of the team, our partners in the alliances organizations, and my direct sales colleagues."

"We are pleased to highlight the many executives throughout the industry who work tirelessly to advance the standing of the channel community within their organizations. The CRN Channel Chief honorees lead, inspire and engage peers and serve as valuable advocates to help ensure the health and longevity of the channel within the IT industry. We applaud their efforts and look forward to their continued success," said Robert Faletra, CEO, The Channel Company. 

CRN Channel Chiefs were selected by the CRN editorial team based on channel experience, program innovations, channel-driven revenue, and public support for the importance of IT channel sales. The 2014 Channel Chiefs list is featured in the February/March issue of CRN, and online at www.CRN.com.

About CallidusCloud
 CallidusCloud® (NASDAQ: CALD), doing business as CallidusCloud®, is the leading provider of sales and marketing effectiveness software. CallidusCloud enables organizations to accelerate and maximize their lead to money process with their complete suite of solutions that identify the right leads, ensure proper territory and quota distribution, enable sales forces, automate configure price quote, and streamline sales compensation -- driving bigger deals, faster. Over 2000 leading organizations, across all industries, rely on CallidusCloud to optimize the lead to money process to close more deals for more money in record time. For more information, please visit www.calliduscloud.com.

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About The Channel Company
 The Channel Company is the channel community's trusted authority for growth and innovation, with established brands including CRN, XChange Events, IPED, and SharedVue. For more than three decades, we have leveraged our proven and leading-edge platforms to deliver prescriptive sales and marketing solutions for the technology channel. The Channel Company provides Communication, Recruitment, Engagement, Enablement, Demand Generation and Intelligence services to drive technology partnerships. Learn more at www.thechannelcompany.com.