Board of Directors Biographies
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H. Richard Lawson: Co-Chairman of the Board
H. Richard Lawson is one of Lawson Software’s founders and has been a director since the company’s beginning in 1975. Lawson served as the chairman of the board of directors from February 2001 until April 2006, and has served as co-chairman since April 2006. From March 2000 until February 2001, Lawson was the company’s chief executive officer. Prior to that time, Lawson served as president and chief operating officer from October 1998 until March 2000 and chairman from June 1996 until October 1998. Mr. Lawson has a B.S. degree from Oklahoma Christian College and an M.S. degree from Purdue University.
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Dr. Romesh Wadhwani: Co-Chairman of the Board
Dr. Romesh Wadhwani has served as co-chairman and a director since April 2006. From March, 2004 until our merger with Intentia International AB in April 2006, Dr. Wadhwani served as chairman and a director of Intentia. Dr. Wadhwani is the Managing Partner of Symphony Technology Group, a private investment firm that he founded in January 2002. From June 2000, when i2 Technologies, Inc. acquired Aspect Development, Inc., until September 2002, Dr. Wadhwani served as vice chairman and a director of i2. Prior to that, Dr. Wadhwani served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Aspect Development, a business-to-business e-commerce company that he founded in 1991. Dr. Wadhwani has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Steven C. Chang: Director
Steven C. Chang has served as a director since April 2006. From September 2004 until our merger with Intentia International AB in April 2006, Mr. Chang served as a director of Intentia. Since December 2006, Mr. Chang has been a partner and co-founder of Clearlake Capital Group, a private investment firm. In 2002, Mr. Chang joined Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC, a private investment firm, and resigned from the partnership and Investment Committee in December 2006. Before joining Tennenbaum Capital Partners, he was a Principal at Barnard & Co., a private equity investment group, from 1997 to 2001. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Chang worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co., a global financial services firm, in its Special Situations, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Healthcare groups. Mr. Chang serves on the boards of CompuDyne Corporation, a provider of products and services to the public security market, and Purple Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRPL), a provider of wireless data services. Mr. Chang has A.B., B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University.
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Harry Debes: President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Harry Debes has served as our president and chief executive officer and as a director since June 2005. From November 2003 until June 2005, Mr. Debes was president and chief executive officer of SPL Worldgroup, a leading provider of enterprise software to the electrical utility industry. From May 2001 until joining SPL Worldgroup, he was employed by JD Edwards & Co., an enterprise software company, where he served as senior vice president Americas until JD Edwards was acquired by Peoplesoft, Inc. in August 2003. From 1990 until May 2001, Mr. Debes was employed by GEAC Computers, an enterprise software company. While working for GEAC, Mr. Debes held a variety of positions, including managing director of GEAC Asia-Pacific and president of GEAC Enterprise Solutions for the Americas. Mr. Debes has a B.A. degree from the University of Toronto and an M.B.A. degree from McMaster University. Mr. Debes is a member of the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management’s Board of Overseers.
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Peter Gyenes: Director
Peter Gyenes has served as a director since May 2006. He has four decades of experience in global technical, sales, marketing, and general management positions within the software and computer systems industries. He is currently the non-executive chairman of Sophos plc, a global security software company. He is an active investor and board member focusing on technology market opportunities. Mr. Gyenes also serves on the board of Pegasystems Inc., Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), a provider of data warehouse appliances and VistPrint Limited (Nasdaq: VPRT), a business marketing company, as well as a number of privately held technology companies, and is a trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. He served as Chairman and CEO of Ascential Software (Nasdaq: ASCL), as well as of its predecessor companies VMark Software, Ardent Software and Informix, and led its growth into the data integration market leader, from 1996 until it was acquired by IBM in 2005. Previously, Mr. Gyenes served as President and CEO of Racal InterLan, Inc., and in executive positions at Data General Corporation, Encore Computer Corporation and Prime Computer, Inc. Earlier in his career, he held sales and technical positions at Xerox Data Systems and IBM. He is a graduate of Columbia University where he received both his B.A. in mathematics and his M.B.A. degree. Mr. Gyenes was awarded the 2005 New England Region Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in Software.
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David R. Hubers: Director
David R. Hubers has served as a director since April 2001. From 1965 until his retirement in March 2001, Mr. Hubers was employed at American Express Financial Advisors Inc., a financial services company, serving most recently as its chairman and chief executive officer from 1993 to 2001. Mr. Hubers is a director of BioScrip, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIOS), a pharmaceutical distribution company. In addition, he serves on the boards of a number of non-profit organizations. Mr. Hubers has B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Minnesota.
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Michael A. Rocca: Director
Michael A. Rocca has served as a director since February 2003. From 1994 until his retirement in October 2000, Mr. Rocca was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Mallinckrodt Inc., a $2.7 billion manufacturer of specialty healthcare products. From 1966 to 1994, Mr. Rocca was employed by Honeywell Inc. where he held a number of positions serving as vice president and treasurer from 1992 to 1994 and vice president finance Honeywell Europe in Brussels, Belgium from 1990 to 1992. Mr. Rocca is a director of St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE: STJ), a cardiovascular medical technology company. He is also a director of Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Mr. Rocca has a Bachelor Business Administration (B.B.A) Accounting degree from the University of Iowa.
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Robert A. Schriesheim: Director
Robert A. Schriesheim has served as a director since May 2006. Beginning in January 2010, Mr. Schriesheim became the chief financial officer of Hewitt Associates, Inc. a global human resources consulting and outsourcing company based in Lincolnshire, IL. From October 2006 through December 2009 he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Lawson. From August 2002 until October 2006, he was affiliated with ARCH Development Partners, LLC, a Chicago, Illinois-based venture capital fund, where he served as a managing general partner since January 2003. From September 1999 until March 2002, Mr. Schriesheim was executive vice president of corporate development and chief financial officer, and a director, of Global Telesystems, Inc., a London, England-based, publicly traded provider of telecommunications, data and related services to businesses throughout Western and Central Europe and Russia. He also served as executive vice president – chief corporate development officer for Global Telesystems in 1999. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Schriesheim was president and chief executive officer of SBC Equity Partners, Inc., a Chicago, Illinois-based private equity firm. From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Schriesheim was vice president of corporate development for Ameritech Corporation. From 1993 to 1996, he was vice president of global corporate development for AC Nielsen Company, a subsidiary of Dunn & Bradstreet. Mr. Schriesheim is a director of Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: SWKS), a provider of RF solutions and precision analog semiconductors to the mobile communications industry. Mr. Schriesheim was previously a director of Dobson Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: DCEL), a wireless communications provider, until its sale to AT&T. Mr. Schriesheim received a A.B. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. in Finance and Business Economics from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
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Paul Wahl: Director
Paul Wahl has served as a director since April 2006. From October, 2004 until our merger with Intentia International AB in April 2006, Mr. Wahl served as a director of Intentia. From April 1999 until his retirement in March 2003, Mr. Wahl served as president and chief operating officer of Siebel Systems, Inc., a developer and supplier of customer resource planning software. From November 1998 until April 1999, he served as president and chief executive officer of TriStrata, an Internet security company. From January 1996 until September 1998, Mr. Wahl served as chief executive officer of SAP America, Inc. and as an executive board member of SAP AG, a developer and supplier of business application software. From June 1991 until December 1995, he was an executive vice president of SAP AG. Mr. Wahl is a director of QlikTech International AB and a member of the advisory board of Symphony Technology Group, a private investment firm founded by one of our directors, Romesh Wadhwani. |
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