Content Day UK
Keynote Speakers
 Simon Harrison Regional Vice President, Northern Europe OpenText | Simon’s 12 years with OpenText complements a successful career in matching business imperatives with innovative technology solutions which spans 25 years in the industry. Coming to OpenText through the acquisition of IXOS and before that the successful WCM start-up, Obtree, Simon was for several years the Head of Global Services for Northern Europe, before coming to his current role as Regional Vice President of Sales. Simon now manages one of the largest regions in the OpenText global organisation. Simon is on the board of Directors for several UK and Northern European companies, is an active speaker at many industry events and holds an honours degree in Computer Science. |
 Mark Barrenechea President and Chief Executive Officer OpenText | Mark J. Barrenechea comes to OpenText Corporation (OTEX) as President and Chief Executive Officer beginning January of 2012. Prior to Joining OpenText, Mark was President and Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Graphics International Corporation (SGI). During Mr. Barrenechea’s tenure at SGI, he led strategy and execution, which included transformative acquisition of assets, and penetrating diverse new markets and geographic regions. Previously, Mr. Barrenechea served as Executive Vice President and CTO for CA, Inc. (CA), (formerly Computer Associates International, Inc.) from 2003 to 2006 and was a member of the executive management team. Before going to CA, Mr. Barrenechea served as Senior Vice President of Applications Development at Oracle Corporation, from 1997 to 2003, managing a multi-thousand person global team while serving as a member of the executive management team. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Barrenechea served as Vice President of Development at Scopus, a software applications company. Prior to Scopus Mr. Barrenechea was with Tesseract, where he was responsible for reshaping the company’s line of human capital management software as Vice President of Development. Mr. Barrenechea holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Saint Michael’s College. Mark is the author of two seminal works about the evolution of the enterprise software industry: “ebusiness or Out of Business: Oracle's Roadmap for Profiting in the New Economy”, and “Software Rules: How the Next Generation of Enterprise Applications Will Increase Strategic Effectiveness”. |
 Peter Near Senior Director, Product Management OpenText | With over a decade in the Information Management space, Peter Near has worked closely with enterprises to solve their most pressing content and process challenges. Peter joined OpenText in 2001 to work on a cloud-based collaboration service, and has since been a staunch advocate of customer needs in our global services, customer support, and product management teams. Peter currently heads product management for OpenText Business Process Services, and is leading continued process innovation as well as the integration of content and process as a key part of OpenText’s product strategy. |
 Eugene Roman Chief Technology Officer OpenText | As a seasoned, hi-tech executive with 28 years of global experience in the IT, infocom, network design, and research and development sectors, Eugene Roman has a multi-skilled background in advanced technology, computer science, business development and finance. Before joining OpenText, Eugene was Group President, Bell® Systems & Technology, where he led the effort to enable breakthroughs in productivity and performance and to deliver current and next generation services more efficiently by harnessing the power of Bell's network. He also held the role of Chief Information and Technology Officer, integrating the critical resources of IS/IT, Technology, and Process to better deliver innovative programs. |
 Lubor Ptacek VP, Strategic Marketing / GM, Microsoft Solutions OpenText | Lubor Ptacek joined OpenText in 2008 and as Vice President of Strategic Marketing he is responsible for a variety of corporate-wide strategic areas including product and solution messaging, PR and analyst relations, industry marketing, product branding and pricing. In addition, Lubor is also the General Manager of OpenText’s Microsoft Solutions Group. Prior to joining OpenText, Lubor held positions in marketing, product marketing, and product management at EMC, Documentum, Vignette, and Novell. Currently, he also serves on the Board of Directors for the Association for Intelligent Information Management (AIIM). Lubor holds a computer science degree from Technical University Ilmenau in Germany and has an MBA from Santa Clara University in California. He’s a regular blogger (www.luborp.com) and can be followed on Twitter as @lptacek. |
 Chris Boardman MBE | Chris Boardman’s name first sprang into the public eye when he took Britain's opening Gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics astride the infamous Lotus bike. This was also Britain's first cycling Gold medal in 72 years. The iconic image of the Lotus machine and pointy helmet linked Chris Boardman forever with cutting edge technology, something he later went on to reinforce by leading the R&D team for GB Cycling in the run up to the Beijing 2008 Olympics, where they became the most successful British sporting team of all time. Between Barcelona and Beijing, Chris Boardman won three stages of the Tour de France, set numerous world records (several of which still stand) and became arguably Britain's most successful cyclist to date. Post cycling, Chris Boardman went on to establish a name in journalism writing for various publications, including Diver magazine and Pro Cycling, worked as a commentator for ITV and the BBC covering major cycling events, sat on the National Cycling Strategy Board as well as co-founding Boardman Bikes, the most respected and fastest growing British Bike Brand in decades. Although bikes and cycling still plays a large part in Chris's life, his other pursuits include writing, running, archery and cave diving... but not all at the same time! |
Contact Us
Content Day UK
Wednesday 16th & Thursday 17th May 2012
Phone: +44 (0)1189 848000
E-Mail: contentdayuk@opentext.com
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