Keynote Speakers

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  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 companys line of human capital management software as Vice President of Development.
  
  Mr. Barrenechea holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Saint Michaels 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.

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  Eugene Roman

  Chief Technology Officer, OpenText

  Mr. Roman joined OpenText in October 2008 as Chief Information Officer. In February 2010, Mr. Roman was appointed as Chief Technology Officer.
  
  Mr. Roman started his career with Nortel Networks Corporation in 1981 upon graduation from the Faculty of Management Studies at the University of Toronto. Mr. Roman has also worked in various groups within Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. (Bell), a Canadian communications company, where he was Group PresidentBell Systems & Technology, from 2005 to 2008, and led the effort to enable breakthroughs in productivity and performance and to deliver currentand next generationservices more efficiently by harnessing the power of Bells network. From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Roman held the role of Chief Information and Technology Officer at Bell, integrating the critical resources of Information Systems/Information Technology, technology and processes to better deliver innovative programs.
  
  Currently Mr. Roman is on the Board of Directors of Ukrainian Credit Union Ltd. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics, a Masters Degree in Business Administration, is a Certified Management Accountant, and is a recent graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors program.

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  Lubor Ptacek

  Vice-President, Strategic Marketing & GM, Microsoft Solutions, OpenText

  Lubor Ptacek, is Vice President of Strategic Marketing and GM, Microsoft Solutions at OpenText. OpenText brings two decades of expertise supporting 100 million users in 114 countries.Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Expertsto help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness.
  
  Mr. Ptacek joined OpenText in 2008 and as the Vice President of Product Marketing, he is responsible for overall product marketing activities for the entire suite of OpenText enterprise content management products. His responsibilities range from messaging and market intelligence to analyst and public relations. With 20 years of experience in the enterprise software industry, Mr. Ptacek has held several positions in marketing, product marketing, and product management. Prior to joining OpenText, Mr. Ptacek served as Sr. Director of Product, Industry and Partner Marketing at EMCs Content Management and Archiving division. Prior to EMC, Mr. Ptacek held various roles at Documentum, Vignette, and Novell.
  
  Mr. Ptacek holds a computer science degree from Technical University Ilmenau in Germany and he has an MBA from Santa Clara University in California.

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  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.