Executive Leadership Team

  • Mark Barrenechea

    Mark J. Barrenechea

    President and Chief Executive Officer

    Mark J. Barrenechea came to OpenText Corporation (OTEX) as President and Chief Executive Officer beginning January 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, as well as 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”.

  • Steve Best

    Steve Best

    Senior Vice President, Americas Sales

    Mr. Best was named Senior Vice President, Americas Sales at OpenText and appointed to the Executive Leadership Team in April 2012. Mr. Best joined the company in 2003 as Director of Oil & Gas and Utility Sales. He was promoted in 2006 to Regional Vice President and his responsibilities grew to include customer sales in the Chemical and Natural Resources Industries. In 2010, he was asked to lead sales for OpenText’s Western United States territory. Mr. Best has over 25 years in customer sales and service, including his roles as Sr. Field Engineer on the General Dynamics F-16 program, and Associate Partner in Accenture’s Oil & Gas practice. Mr. Best earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Technology from Texas A&M University in 1985, and his Masters of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. He currently resides in Austin, Texas.

  • Gordon Davies

    Gordon A. Davies

    Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

    Mr. Davies has been the Company’s Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary since September 2009. He also serves as the Corporation’s Compliance Officer. Prior to joining OpenText, Mr. Davies was the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Nortel Networks Corporation. During his sixteen years at Nortel, Mr. 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. Mr. Davies was a member of the boards of various subsidiaries of Nortel Networks Corporation from 1998 to 2009. Prior to joining Nortel, Mr. Davies practiced securities law at a major Toronto law firm. Mr. 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, the Association of Canadian General Counsel and the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals.

  • Walter Köhler

    Walter Köhler

    Senior Vice President, Worldwide Professional Services

    Mr. Köhler was appointed Senior Vice President, Worldwide Professional Services in 2012 to lead the Open Text consulting services worldwide, building on his extensive experience working with Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Köhler has been Managing Director for Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe since 2006 and served as Vice President, Global Services EMEA. Prior to joining Open Text, Mr. Köhler was an Executive Board Member for IXOS Software AG, where he also held several management roles in R&D, Professional Services and Customer Support. Mr. Köhler holds an M.Sc. from Munich Technical University in Computer Science and Economics.

  • James Latham

    James Latham

    Chief Marketing Officer

    Mr. Latham was appointed Chief Marketing Officer of OpenText in July 2009, focusing on integration and collaboration between various marketing groups. Mr. Latham has more than twenty years of executive leadership and global marketing experience in both start-up and large public software development and integration organizations. Prior to joining OpenText, Mr. Latham led the Marketing Strategy team for worldwide brand management, awareness, perception, and digital relationship marketing at McCann World group, a global marketing communications company and a division of Interpublic Group (IPG) from March 2006 to June 2009. Over the past eight years, Mr. Latham has helped plan, build, execute, optimize and analyze digital advertising campaigns across a wide variety of Microsoft “business to business” products and services including Enterprise Content Management, Digital Asset Management, and communications software products. Mr. Latham was also Vice President of Marketing and Marketing Strategy for several software companies. He worked in marketing at both IBM (from September 1981 to July 1984) and Lotus Development (from August 1984 to August 1989).

  • Paul McFeeters

    Paul McFeeters

    Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer

    Mr. McFeeters was appointed Chief Financial Officer of OpenText in June 2006 and was appointed Chief Administrative Officer in February 2012. Mr. McFeeters has more than twenty years of business experience, including previous employment as Chief Financial Officer of Platform Computing Inc., a grid computing software vendor from 2003 to 2006, and of Kintana Inc., a privately-held IT governance software provider, from 2000 to 2003. Mr. McFeeters also held President and CEO positions at both MD Private Trust from 1997 to 2000 and Municipal Financial Corporation from 1991 to 1996. Since 2009 Mr. McFeeters is also a member of the board of Blueprint Software Systems Inc., an enterprise “requirements” software solutions provider. Mr. McFeeters holds a Certified Management Accountant designation and attained a B.B.A (Honours) from Wilfrid Laurier University and an MBA from York University, Canada.

  • James McGourlay

    James McGourlay

    Senior Vice President, Worldwide Customer Service

    Mr. McGourlay was appointed Senior Vice President, Worldwide Customer Service in February 2012, to lead the global support organization. Mr. McGourlay joined OpenText in 1997 with progressive positions in IT, technical support, product support and special projects, before becoming Director, Customer Service in 2002 and Vice President, Customer Service in 2005. He was instrumental in early acquisitions, and the OpenText Enterprise Deployment Board, which he chaired until 2010. Over the last 20 years, Mr. McGourlay has directed tremendous growth in the OpenText Customer Services team for the Americas, sponsored programs such as the Knowledge Center, Partner Support Program, quality audits and enhanced Customer Support programs. Today, he and his team are moving forward with integrations management, social engagement & support for customers and continued improvements to the customer experience.

  • Louis Mousseau

    Louis Mousseau

    Senior Vice President, Portfolio Group

    Mr Mousseau joined OpenText in April 2010 with the acquisition of Nstein, where he was Managing Director, Nstein Europe. At OpenText, he was Vice-President, Enterprise Sales North America until his appointment as SVP, Portfolio Group in April 2012. Mr Mousseau started his professional career in 1996 at Fasken Martineau, an international business law and litigation firm. From 1999 to 2003, he held various leadership positions at Bell Canada and from 2004 to 2007, he held executive positions at Softvoyage, a provider of ERP and e-commerce solutions to the travel industry, and Mediagrif Interactive Technologies, a global operator of e-business networks. He joined Nstein Technology in 2007 as VP Corporate Development. Mr Mousseau has an MBA from École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal (1996), a Ll. B. in civil law from Université de Montréal (1993), and is a member of the Québec bar (1994).

  • Tony Preston

    Tony Preston

    Senior Vice President, Human Resources

    Mr. Preston joined OpenText in October of 2005 as Vice President, Global Human Resources (HR) and was promoted to Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources (HR) in 2006. He brings more than thirty years of HR and leadership experience in direct and indirect management, organizational change, executive development, cultural diversity, and international human resources within the high-technology industry. Mr. Preston has held senior management and executive HR management roles with Nortel Networks Corporation from 1997 to 2003, Andrew Corporation, a supplier of communications, systems and services, during 2004, and was a consultant with Leading Edge Management Systems from 1991 to 1993. Mr. Preston holds a B.S. degree from Greenville College, Illinois, and attended the University of Western Ontario’s Ivey Business School in Hong Kong.

  • Graham Pullen

    Graham Pullen

    Senior Vice President, APJ Sales

    Mr. Pullen was appointed Vice President, Asia Pacific in July 2008 to grow OpenText's sales and marketing presence in one of the company’s fastest expanding regions, becoming General Manager for the region in 2009. Mr. Pullen has more than 25 years experience in software sales leadership for large international organizations, with a strong profile in the region. Prior to OpenText, Mr. Pullen was named Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand at Documentum in 2002, then served as Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific at Vignette starting in 2005. He also held sales director roles at BEA, PeopleSoft and Silicon Graphics. As Senior Vice President Sales for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ), Mr. Pullen is responsible for growing the business across ANZ, SE Asia, China, India and Japan. His vision for APJ is to be a natural extension of the OpenText global market, locally supporting our customers and partners.

  • Eugene Roman

    Eugene Roman

    Chief Technology Officer

    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 President—Bell Systems & Technology, from 2005 to 2008, and led the effort to enable breakthroughs in productivity and performance and to deliver “current” and “next generation” services more efficiently by harnessing the power of Bell’s 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 Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, is a Certified Management Accountant, and is a recent graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors program.

  • Dave Wareham

    David Wareham

    Executive Vice President, EMEA Sales

    Mr. Wareham joined OpenText in July 1999 as Senior Vice President, Global Services and Support. Since February 2009, Mr. Wareham has been General Manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Mr. Wareham has more than two decades of global experience in the software industry. He began his career as an analyst programmer, supporting finance and human resource systems for the Mars Corporation from 1985 to 1988. He went on to a variety of customer support and professional services management positions for Pansophic Systems Inc., a software development and consulting company (from 1990 to 1992) and Management Science America Inc., an application software company (from 1988 to 1990). Mr. Wareham also held the role of VP Global Support in the United States for Seer Technologies Inc., a provider of information engineering and middleware technologies, from 1992 to 1999.