Executive Management Profiles

Mark J. Barrenechea

President and Chief Executive Officer

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”.

P. Thomas ‘Tom’ Jenkins

Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer

P. Thomas Jenkins is Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer for OpenText. From 1994 to 2005, Mr. Jenkins was President, then Chief Executive Officer and then from 2005 to present, Chief Strategy Officer of OpenText. Mr. Jenkins has served as a Director of OpenText since 1994 and as its Chairman since 1998. In addition to his OpenText 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 and past appointed member of the Province of Ontario’s Ontario Commercialization Network Review Committee (OCN). 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, GRAND, the federal research centre of excellence for digital media, 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.

Eugene Roman

Chief Technology Officer

Eugene Roman is a seasoned, hi-tech executive with 28 years of global experience in the IT, infocom, network design and R&D sectors. He has a multi-skilled background in advanced technology, computer science, business development and finance.  In his role as Chief Technology Officer at OpenText, Mr. Roman works closely with all major areas of business to evolve and develop OpenText products.

Previously, Mr. Roman was Group President, Bell Systems & Technology. In this role, Mr. Roman led the effort to enable breakthroughs in productivity and performance, and deliver current and next generation services more efficiently by harnessing the power of Bell's network.  Prior to his appointment as Group President, he held the position of Chief Information and Technology Officer. In this role, Mr. Roman led the integration of the critical resources of IS/IT, Technology and Process to better deliver innovative programs, achieving short- and long-term benefits.

Mr. Roman started his career with Nortel in 1981 upon graduation from the Faculty of Management Studies at the University of Toronto. He has worked in various groups within BCE including Finance, Information Systems, R & D, and Corporate Office with significant international assignments in Asia, Europe and South America. Eugene is on the Board of Directors of a community based financial institution and has supported its evolution to an e-business.

Eugene holds a Bachelor's Degree in economics, a Master's Degree in Business Administration and is a Certified Management Accountant.

Gordon Davies

Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

Gordon A. Davies joined OpenText Corporation as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary in September 2009. He also serves as the Corporation’s Compliance Officer.

Prior to joining OpenText, Davies was the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Nortel Networks Corporation. During his 16 years at Nortel, Davies acted as Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary during 2008, and as interim Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary in 2005 and again in 2007. He led the Corporate Securities legal team as General Counsel – Corporate from 2003, with responsibility for providing legal support on all corporate and securities law matters, and spent five years in Europe supporting all aspects of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business, ultimately as General Counsel, EMEA. Prior to joining Nortel, Davies practiced securities law at a major Toronto law firm.

Davies holds an LL.B and an MBA from the University of Ottawa, and a BA from the University of British Columbia. He is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Bar Association and the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals.

James Latham

Chief Marketing Officer

James Latham has more than two decades of executive leadership and global marketing experience in both start-up and large public software development and integration organizations. Prior to joining OpenText, James led the Marketing Strategy team for worldwide brand management, awareness, perception, and digital relationship marketing at McCann Worldgroup®, a $700 million division of media services conglomerate Interpublic Group® (IPG). Over the past seven years he planned, built, executed, optimized, and analyzed digital advertising campaigns across a wide variety of Microsoft® B2B products and services including Enterprise Content Management, Digital Asset Management, and communications software products. James was also Vice President of Marketing and Marketing Strategy for several large and growth-oriented software companies including IBM® and Lotus Development®. At OpenText, James is focused on integration and collaboration between various marketing groups and the Chief Strategy Office as the Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing.

James brings broad and deep experience and expertise in all marketing disciplines to OpenText.  From sales support through corporate marketing organization and brand strategy, James has a unique ability to assess companies' existing marketing and to establish a leadership position using traditional and new media capabilities. He has lectured at Northeastern University and in global marketing for the Masters in International Management.