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David Laker

David leads Guidewire’s Global Sales, Inside Sales, and Solution Sales organizations. David is a proven senior executive with deep domain expertise in driving high performance organizations that focus on customer success. He also has vast experience working with customers across many industries on their cloud transformation journey. David has held several senior leadership positions at SAP & Salesforce. Most recently, David was the former Senior Vice President (SVP), Financial Services and Banking for North America Cloud and Technology at Oracle. In this role, he helped customers identify value and drive collaborative strategies to best meet their business goals in moving to the cloud. The current public directories still list commercial/sales leadership, while company earnings-call statements reproduced elsewhere report2026 succession to Shane Cassidy. A currently accessible primary transcript has not been recovered; this biography records directory-listed responsibilities and leaves current tenure unresolved.