Executive Management ProfilesJohn 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 based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has served as a Director of Open Text since December 1994 and as its Chairman since June 30, 1998 and most recently as its Executive Chairman since June 30, 2005. From July 1994 to July 1997 Mr. Jenkins was President of Open Text and from July 1997 until July 2005, Mr. Jenkins served as Chief Executive Officer of Open Text. Mr. Jenkins was appointed Chief Strategy Officer of the Company in August 2005 and currently serves in that capacity. From December 1986 until June 1994, Mr. Jenkins held several executive positions with DALSA Inc., an electronic imaging manufacturer based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Prior to these positions, Mr. Jenkins was employed in a variety of technical and managerial capacities at a variety of information technology based companies in Canada. In addition to his Open Text responsibilities, Mr. Jenkins is currently a member of the board of BMC Software, Inc. a software corporation based in Houston, Texas. He is also an appointed member of the Government of Canada's Competition Policy Review Panel and an appointed member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Mr. Jenkins received an M.B.A. in entrepreneurship and 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. and 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. John Wilkerson Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services
John Wilkerson joined Open Text on August 1, 2006 as EVP WW Sales and Services. John comes to us with nearly 30 years of leadership in sales, alliances, marketing and professional services roles for leading enterprise technology companies. Prior to joining Open Text, John was the Executive Vice President, Sales Services, and Business Development for Bocada, a data protection management software company. Prior to that, John was the U.S. Vice President of Services for Premier/Alliance and Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) in the U.S.. Prior to Microsoft, John led a team that managed marketing and portfolio management, strategy and global alliance relationships as Divisional President of Electronic Data Systems (EDS). Before joining EDS, John was President and General Manager of global operations for strategic and vertical markets for the Baan Company in the Netherlands, where he managed worldwide sales, consulting and support services. John served as Northwestern area manager for Oracle Corp. before moving to Baan. He began his career with IBM, serving in multiple management assignments, including roles as President and General Manager for North America and Asia Pacific in IBM's Computer Resources International, Inc., subsidiary.
John earned a bachelor's degree in business management from Seattle Pacific University and has studied at the international post-graduate level in the areas of marketing, management and technology.
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