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John Shackleton
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Shackleton has served as director of the Company since January 1999 and as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since July 2005. From November 1998 to July 2005, Mr. Shackleton served as President of the Company. From July 1996 to 1998, Mr. Shackleton served as President of the Platinum Solution division for Platinum Technology Inc. Prior to that he served as Vice President of Professional Services for the Central U.S. and South America at Sybase, Inc., as Vice President of Worldwide Consulting at View Star Corp., a document management imaging company, and he directed several consulting practices for Oracle Systems Corp. Mr. Shackleton is also currently a director of OmniViz, Inc.
P. Thomas 'Tom' Jenkins
Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer
P. Thomas Jenkins is Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Open Text Corporation of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, the largest independent software company in Canada. Mr. Jenkins has served as a Director of Open Text since 1994 and as its Chairman since 1998. From 1994 to present, Mr. Jenkins was President, then Chief Executive Officer and then Chief Strategy Officer of Open Text. Mr.Jenkins has also held several executive positions with DALSAInc., an electronic imaging manufacturer based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Prior to these positions, Mr. Jenkins was employed in technical and managerial capacities at a variety of information technology based companies in Canada.
In addition to his Open Text responsibilities, Mr. Jenkins is the Chair of the federal centre of excellence Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN). He is also an appointed member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), past appointed member of the Government of Canada’s Competition Policy Review Panel which reported in June 2008, and past appointed member of the Province of Ontario's Ontario Commercialization Network Review Committee (OCN) which reported in February 2009. Mr. Jenkins is also a member of the board of BMC Software, Inc. a software corporation based in Houston, Texas. He is also a member of the University of Waterloo Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council, a director of the C.D. Howe Institute, a director of the Canadian International Council (CIC) and a director of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE).
Mr. Jenkins received an M.B.A. in entrepreneurship & technology management from Schulich School of Business at York University, an M.A.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto and a B.Eng. & Mgt. in Engineering Physics and Commerce from McMaster University.
Paul McFeeters
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. McFeeters was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Company on June 1, 2006. Mr. McFeeters has more than 20 years of business experience, including previous employment as Chief Financial Officer of Platform Computing Inc. (a grid computing software vendor), Kintana, Inc. (a privately-held IT governance software provider), as well as President and CEO positions at both MD Private Trust and Municipal Financial Corporation. He holds a Certified Management Accountant designation and attained a B.B.A (Honours) from Wilfrid Laurier University and an MBA from York University, Canada.
Bill Forquer
Executive Vice President, ECM Business Development
Mr. Forquer was appointed Executive Vice President, ECM Business Development in October 2005. From 2003 to 2005, he served as Executive Vice President, Marketing. Prior to that, he held the position of Senior Vice President, Business Development of the Company. Mr. Forquer has been involved with knowledge management systems his entire career. He has been with Open Text since June 1998, when the Company acquired Information Dimensions, Inc. (IDI) where Mr. Forquer was President. Mr. Forquer began his career in 1981 at Battelle Laboratories developing the software that subsequently was acquired by IDI. Mr. Forquer has a B.S. in Mathematics Education and a M.S. in Computer and Information Science, both from The Ohio State University.
Kirk Roberts
Executive Vice President, Product Solutions and Marketing
Mr. Roberts was appointed Executive Vice President, Product Solutions and Marketing in October 2005. From 2003 to 2005, he served as Executive Vice President, Services. Mr. Roberts has been in the online services and software industry for over 20 years. Prior to joining the Company in 1996 Mr. Roberts founded NirvCentre, one of Canada's first online service providers, where he served as the senior executive for ten years. In 1996, as a result of a strategic acquisition, Mr. Roberts joined Open Text, and designed and launched the Livelink Online Service-a global Livelink application hosting service for large corporations.
