Open Text Appoints EMEA General Manager

London, UK - 2009-06-18 - Open Text, a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), today announced that Dave Wareham has been appointed as Senior Vice President General Manager EMEA. In this new role, Wareham will be responsible for all sales, service and support operations throughout Europe, The Middle East and Africa.

Wareham previously headed the global services and support organisation for Open Text and will now lead the continuing growth of Open Text in EMEA, along with his senior management team. Wareham, with nearly two decades of experience in the enterprise software industry has held senior positions in the ECM market for the last 10 years.

Despite the current tough economic climate, this is an exciting time at Open Text as we continue to grow our business, delivering the types of solutions that our customers need to help them during the global recession. , said Wareham.

Wareham continued, We re investing and expanding into new and emerging markets, for example in Eastern Europe and Russia, at a time when many are cutting back on operations. With the continued explosion in the volume of information and increasingly complex regulatory and compliance drivers, it s important that we re even closer to our customers and partners, to truly understand their needs and to provide the solutions and support that they require. With the support of an experienced management team and a dedicated staff, it s an amazing opportunity to lead Europe s largest ECM vendor.

John Wilkerson, Executive Vice President, Global Sales Service and Support, Open Text added, When considering the new role of General Manager for our EMEA operations, we didn t have far to look. Dave has been a highly successful leader at Open Text for many years. His experience and empathy with the needs of customers and partners made him an obvious choice. I m personally very excited that Dave has accepted what inevitably will be a challenging role, but I ve every confidence he ll meet the challenge head on, leveraging his experience to full effect.

About Open Text

Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organisations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 50 million users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts to help organisations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit http://www.opentext.com.

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