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Management Team
| Bruce Cameron |
President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing, CDC Software |
| Matthew S. Lavelle |
Chief Financial Officer, CDC Corporation, CDC Software |
| Alan MacLamroc |
Chief Product & Technology Officer, CDC Software |
| Monish Bahl |
Senior Vice President, Business Development and Mergers & Acquisitions, CDC Corporation |
| Mark Sutcliffe |
President of CDC Factory |
| Lee R. Riesterer |
Senior Vice President, Professional Services |
| Niklas Rönnbäck |
Senior Vice President |
| Donald L. Novajosky |
Vice President, General Counsel |
| Sean Yu |
Vice President, CDC Software and Chairman, CDC Software (China) |
| Hilton Law |
Managing Director, China and Southeast Asia, CDC Software |
| Edmund Lau |
Vice President, Greater China, CDC Software |
| Anil Dwivedi |
Vice President, Japan and Korea, CDC Software |
| Jason Rushforth |
Senior Vice President, NA Sales, Worldwide Marketing and Strategic Alliances, CDC Software |
| David Cahn |
Vice President, Product Strategy |
Peter Yip
Chief Executive Officer, CDC Software
Mr. Yip is Executive Chairman of CDC Software, a leading integrated enterprise software company currently ranked #18 of the global top 100 enterprise software providers. Mr. Yip is the architect of the acquisitions of Pivotal Corporation and Ross Systems that together form the core foundation for CDC Software. Mr. Yip is also Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of CDC Corporation. Mr. Yip was a founder of CDC Corporation and was the founding CEO between January 1999 and February 2005. Under his leadership, CDC Corporation was one of the first successful initial public offerings of an Internet company from Greater China to be listed on NASDAQ, opening the door for other Chinese entrepreneurs to list their ventures in the US capital markets.
Mr. Yip co-founded Yipkon Business Systems in 1978 with his Indian partner from Bangalore, Kumar Konanur. Yipkon, as one of the first Indian outsourcing companies based in New York, pioneered outsourcing for US companies using Indian resources from Bangalore and successfully grew to US$100M revenue, securing major federal government contracts with the US Army, US Treasury, DOD Logistics Agency, and financial institutions including Equitable Life, Morgan Guarantee Trust, Bankers Trust, New York Life, and Citibank. Mr. Yip sold Yipkon to MCI Worldcom in 1987, just before the market crash, and returned to Hong Kong to make investments in software and IT companies.
Mr. Yip has made a number of successful co-investments with institutional investors, corporate investors and high net worth individuals. These include investments in Temasek Holdings company, Xinhua News Agency, Bechtel Enterprises Inc., Mitsui & Co. Ltd., America Online, Inc., Merrill Lynch-Fred Adler Technology Fund II, and the New World Group. Mr. Yip previously held management positions at KPMG Consulting and Wharton Applied Research.
Mr. Yip is a frequent speaker at various international conferences and institutions, including the Harvard Business School, Fortune CEO Global Forum, World Economics Forum, Forbes CEO Forum, Businessweek CIO Forum, M.I.T. Enterprise Forum, US/Japan Symposium on Corporate Partnership, United Nations Conference on Science & Technology, Harvard University's Conference on Internet & Society, and the Nikkei International Conference. CDC Corporation's business model was a case study at Harvard Business School in 1996. He has authored research papers published by Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Nanjing University Press, and the National Science Foundation. He recently co-authored a book titled The China's Century with former Chinese Premier Zhu Yongji, amongst others.
Mr. Yip received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his MSEE and BSEE from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr Yip also received an associate degree in Engineering and an honorary doctorate degree in Business from Vincennes University, Indiana.
John Clough
Chairman and Chairman of the Audit Committee, CDC Software
In his role as Vice Chairman of the Board for CDC Software, John Clough helps to guide corporate strategy and company growth, especially in the expansion of global sales channels. Mr. Clough is also a board member and chairman of the executive committee for CDC Corporation and serves as a special advisor to General Atlantic LLC.
Mr. Clough brings significant enterprise software and entrepreneurial experience to CDC Software. He was a Co-founder and Managing Director of the CSSL Group, one of the largest mid-range application software distributors and hardware resellers in Asia and Australasia. Prior to the CSSL Group, Mr. Clough held the position of General Manager of JBA in Asia, an Australia-based worldwide mid-range software distributor.
Simon Wong
Independent Director
In addition to his directorship at CDC Software, Simon, Kwong Chi Wong has served as an independent director of our board of directors since August 2005. Mr. Wong is a partner of Argo Global Capital, LLC. Prior to joining Argo, he was a director and executive vice president of Transpac Capital Ltd., one of the oldest and largest private equity investment firms in Asia, managing a $820.0 million portfolio with investments in approximately 200 companies in East Asia and the United States. Prior to joining Transpac, Mr. Wong was deputy managing director of Cony Electronics Products Ltd. and Hung Nien Electronics Ltd. in Hong Kong and president of Cony Electronics Inc. in Chicago. Mr. Wong serves on the boards of Hang Fung Gold Technology Ltd., Fountain Set (Holdings) Limited and Glory Mark Hi-Tech (Holdings) Ltd. Mr. Wong has served previously as chairman of the Hong Kong Venture Capital Association and was vice chairman of The Hong Kong Electronic Industries Association. He is also a committee member of the Hong Kong Young Industrialists Council; member of Financial Services Advisory Committee of Hong Kong Trade Development Council and board member of Monte Jade Science and Technology Association of Hong Kong. Mr. Wong received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Raymond Ch'ien
Chairman
Raymond K.F. Ch'ien has served as chairman of our board since January 1999, and served as executive chairman of our board from April 2001 until August 2005 at which point he became chairman of our board. He served as acting chief executive officer between March 2004 and March 2005, and chief executive officer from March 2005 until August 2005. Dr. Ch'ien is chairman and a member of the executive and remuneration committees of our Hong Kong listed subsidiary, China.com Inc. Dr. Ch'ien is also chairman of MTR Corporation Limited and serves on the boards of HSBC Holdings plc, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Inchcape plc, Convenience Retail Asia Limited, VTech Holdings Limited and The Wharf (Holdings) Limited. Dr. Ch'ien received a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1993 and a Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1994. In 1999, he was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star medal.
Chung Kiu Wong
Independent Director, CDC Software
Wong Chung Kiu was appointed to the CDC Software board in March 2007. Mr. Wong is the founder and managing principal of iASPEC, a group of companies that provide information technology consulting services, software products and services in Hong Kong, China and North America. iASPEC was established in 1988 and continues to maintain its headquarters in Hong Kong. Mr. Wong obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California. He served as the principal architect in a State of California government data centre from 1975 to 1981 and received the Distinguished Services Award from the State of California in 1979. Mr. Wong returned to China in 1982 and has held senior positions in international information technology companies in China and in Hong Kong. Mr. Wong is a Distinguished Fellow of the Hong Kong Computer Society. He is also a member of the University Grants Committee and a member of the Advisory Committee on Creative Industry of the Central Policy Unit in the Hong Kong SAR Government. Mr. Wong serves as a member in the Advisory Committees of various engineering faculties and information technology academic departments in the local universities and those in China.
Lee G. Lam
Director
Lee G. Lam has served as an independent director of our board since May 2007. Mr. Lam is a member of our audit and nominating committees. Mr. Lam currently also serves as Chairman of Monte Jade Science and Technology Association of Hong Kong and as a Senior Advisor to Macquarie Bank in the Asia Pacific region. He also serves on the board of several listed companies in the Asia Pacific region such as Hong Kong-listed Hutchison Harbour Ring Limited and China.com, Singapore-listed Rowsley Limited, Thailand-listed TRUE Corporation PCL and Pakistan-listed Telecard Limited. He has over 25 years of experience with multinational operations and corporate management in the telecommunications, media and technology, consumer/retail, property and financial services sectors. In addition, Mr. Lam has held various positions at major companies, including vice chairman of the Investment Banking Division at Bank of China International Holdings, president, chief executive officer and vice chairman of the board of Chia Tai Enterprises International Limited, vice chairman of Shanghai Kinghill Limited and was a founding chairman of Chia Tai Department Store and Unotel. Mr. Lam holds a bachelor's degree in science and mathematics, a masters degree in systems science and in business administration from the University of Ottawa in Canada, as well as a post-graduate diploma in public administration from Carleton University in Canada, a post-graduate diploma in English and Hong Kong law and a bachelor of laws from the Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. Mr. Lam also received a doctoral degree from the University of Hong Kong.
Frank K. Au
Independent Director, CDC Software
Frank K. Au is an independent board director of CDC Software and CDC Games. Mr. Au is the CEO of Cowen Latitude Asia, the wholly-owned Asia subsidiary of Cowen Group, which has offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai . Mr. Au is responsible for leading all aspects of Cowen's businesses in Asia including capital markets, M&A and private placements. Prior to his appointment as CEO of Cowen Latitude Asia, Mr. Au was the President and co-founder of Latitude Capital Group, which was acquired by Cowen Group in 2008. He is based in the Firm's Hong Kong office and currently focuses on covering the alternative energy, consumer, health care, industrial, media and technology sectors in Asia.
Previously, Mr. Au was the Head of Media investing banking in Greater China for Lehman Brothers Asia. Mr. Au has extensive investment banking experience across all areas of corporate finance including equity and debt capital raising, as well as mergers and acquisition advisory having worked in both Lehman's New York and Hong Kong offices in the Technology, Telecom and Industrial/LBO Groups.
Mr. Au holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics/East Asian Studies from Columbia University.
Bruce Cameron
President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing, CDC Software
Bruce Cameron is President for Worldwide Sales and Marketing and is responsible for overseeing global sales and marketing for the company's enterprise solutions.
Mr. Cameron was originally hired into Pivotal in 2003 as General Manager. He has overseen license revenue growth of over 20% per year in North America and has had similar success in EMEA. Today he manages the sales and marketing of numerous product lines across multiple geographies for $350M CDC Software.
Previously, Mr. Cameron held executive positions at QAD Inc., Delano Technology, and JBA International. As Vice President of Worldwide Sales for QAD Inc., Mr. Cameron grew revenue in North America from $7 million to $45 million in two years and from $10 million to $100 million on a worldwide basis, while adding major customer accounts, including Gillette, Unilever, and Colgate.
At Delano Technology, Mr. Cameron grew revenue from $6 million to $30 million in a single year while serving as General Manager. From 1992 to 1997, Mr. Cameron held executive roles at JBA International and was responsible for taking the company into four new vertical markets, helping JBA surpass $100 million in sales in these verticals in three years.
Matthew S. Lavelle
Chief Financial Officer, CDC Corporation, CDC Software
Matthew Lavelle is Chief Financial Officer for CDC Corporation, CDC Software and is responsible for forecasting and budgeting, monthly reporting and analysis, developing and tracking operating performance metrics, and establishing monthly business review processes for CDC Software, CDC Global Services, CDC Games, and China.com
Mr. Lavelle is a results-driven senior professional with a proven track record of success in the finance and accounting field. His expertise ranges from annual strategic planning coordination and the development and implementation of accounting policies and procedures to management of audits and business case financials.
For more than 20 years, Mr. Lavelle has worked in the financing and accounting industry and has previously held senior level finance positions with SITA, Inc., UPS Supply Chain Solutions, UPS SCS Canada, UPS Logistics Group Inc, amongst others.
Mr. Lavelle holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Alan MacLamroc
Chief Product & Technology Officer, CDC Software
Mr. MacLamroc is responsible for the definition, development and deployment of all products for the company, including technology strategy, product management, software development, quality assurance, performance and systems integration for CDC Software, as well as global IT.
With more than 20 years of technology management experience, Mr. MacLamroc comes to CDC Software from CompuCredit, where he served as chief technology officer, Valued Services. Previous experience includes serving as chief product and technology officer, Global Product Marketing & Engineering, for MAPICS and chief technology officer, Global Engineering, for CLARUS. He also has served in a variety of technology management positions at System Software Associates (SSA), IBM and Sprint.
Monish Bahl
Senior Vice President, Business Development and Mergers & Acquisitions, CDC Corporation
Mr. Bahl is responsible for all the company's mergers and acquisition activities. He has held a variety of management roles at CDC Corporation including Vice President of Investor Relations where he communicated the company's financial and other relevant information to shareholders and the financial community. He has held a variety of management positions with publicly traded companies and has extensive experience with Wall Street.
Prior to joining CDC Software, he served as Vice President, Investor Relations of Verso Technologies, a next generation telecommunications equipment provider in Atlanta. In this role, he communicated the company's strategy to the investment community, was involved in two equity capital raises, as well as mergers and acquisitions activity. Earlier, he was one of the founding members of HarborPayments, an e-commerce financial services company that was later sold to American Express Corporation. Prior to HarborPayments, he worked as Assistant Vice President for Parker/Hunter, a sell-side brokerage house later sold to Janney Montgomery. In that capacity, he served as a senior equity analyst covering technology stocks such as Computer Associates, Ansys and others. He was also involved in five public equity offerings. He holds a MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor of science from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA.
Mark Sutcliffe
President of CDC Factory
Mark Sutcliffe is president of CDC Factory, a packaged manufacturing operations management solution.
Sutcliffe is an acknowledged authority on continuous improvement and change management practices, centered on technology. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences in Europe and the U.S. on the subject of deploying technology to leverage "human capital" and achieve "breakthrough performance" across the whole enterprise.
After an outstanding career in enterprise software sales, Mark formed MVI technology in 1991 to provide leading-edge improvement technology to the food & beverage manufacturing sector. In the fourth quarter of 2006, MVI was acquired by CDC Software and the product line has posted consistent record sales quarters.
Lee R. Riesterer
Senior Vice President, Professional Services
Lee R. Riesterer is Senior Vice President of Professional Services for CDC Software Corporation. He joined CDC Software in 2007, where he previously served as Vice President of CRM Professional Services for CDC Software. From June of 2004 to July of 2007, Mr. Riesterer was the President of The Brookhaven Group, LLC, a privately held consulting firm based in Atlanta, Georgia focused on the enterprise applications market including customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, web-based collaboration and training, information security, and governance, risk and compliance solutions. Mr. Riesterer has provided clients with a range of consulting services including business strategy development, go-to-market planning, market and product positioning, and new product and services development and packaging. He began his professional career at Digital Equipment Corporation where he held a number of leadership roles in the Sales and Professional Services organization including management of the North American Solutions Business Practice, providing complex enterprise-wide systems integration and consulting services to Fortune 500 corporate clients. Mr. Riesterer majored in Political Science with a minor in Business Administration at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Niklas Rönnbäck
Senior Vice President
Niklas Rönnbäck is Senior Vice President at CDC Software. He is responsible for CDC Supply Chain product line throughout EMEA, the company's supply chain management solutions for high volume wholesalers, retail- and manufacturing distribution companies. Mr. Rönnbäck is also responsible for all of CDC Software product lines in the Nordic region.
Since 1997, he has served in a variety of management roles at CDC Software including Vice President, Operations at CDC Supply Chain and Senior Vice President, Services responsible for all customer service, across all product lines in EMEA.
Rönnbäck brings more than 15 years of enterprise software experience, specifically in the implementation of ERP, order management and warehouse management systems. Earlier, he was President at Öhrwall & Rönnbäck, a privately held logistics and supply chain firm.
Donald L. Novajosky
Vice President, General Counsel
Donald L. Novajosky is Vice President and General Counsel for CDC Software. He also serves as Associate General Counsel of CDC Corporation. Mr. Novajosky joined CDC Corporation as Corporate Counsel in November 2006. From 2005 to 2006, Mr. Novajosky held positions with the law firms of Reed Smith LLP and Hutchison Law Group PLLC, where his practice focused on general corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate matters. From June 2003 to July 2005, Mr. Novajosky was the Director, Legal of Cytogen Corporation, a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company in Princeton, New Jersey. Prior to that, Mr. Novajosky held positions with the law firms of Hale and Dorr LLP (now Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr) and Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney PC. Mr. Novajosky received a Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, from New York Law School, where he was a member, editor and published author of the New York Law School Law Review. Mr. Novajosky also received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Pennsylvania State University.
Sean Yu
Vice President, CDC Software and Chairman, CDC Software (China)
Sean Yu, Vice President for Development of CDC Software and Chairman of CDC Software (China), is responsible for establishing, expanding and managing the company's China operations. Under his leadership, CDC Software's offshore capability in China has grown from scratch to account for more than one-third of the global product workforce within three years. To accelerate CDC Software's rapid growth in China, he also identifies and examines acquisition targets, conducts due diligence analysis, explores IPO opportunities in the domestic capital markets, and serves as board members on the company's joint ventures to ensure their continuing success.
Before joining CDC Software, Mr. Yu held senior positions in the field of supply chain management. Creative solutions developed under his leadership are supporting a number of globally-known companies and optimizing their supply chain and transportation networks.
Earlier in his career, he worked at the Harvard Institute for International Development conducting economic and investment analysis for international and government institutions such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Mr. Yu is a Harvard Business School graduate. He also holds an M.S. in operations research and M.A. in urban planning from Harvard University. Before going to Harvard, he graduated from China's Peking University with an M.S. degree.
Hilton Law
Managing Director, China and Southeast Asia, CDC Software
Hilton Law is Managing Director of China and Asia/Pacific for CDC Software. He is responsible for channel partner development, strategic planning, corporate development and management of the company in Greater China and its Southeast Asia operations. Mr. Law also is CEO of Integrated Solutions Ltd., a business unit of CDC Software.
With more than 20 years of experience in the information technology industry, Mr. Law has served in a variety of senior management roles throughout China and Asia/Pacific. Previously, he was General Manager of SOLAR Inc. Limited, the joint venture of PCCW Limited and Computer Associates International, Inc. At, SOLAR, Hilton successfully developed and brought into the market a series of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions, which included Finance Solution, Human Resources and MPF Solution for the small and medium-size enterprise (SME) market that resulted in a solid customer base being formed immediately. Mr. Law serves as a Council member of the Information and Software Industry Association.
Edmund Lau
Vice President, Greater China, CDC Software
Edmund Lau is vice president, Greater China. He is responsible for sales, services and business development in Greater China (Hong Kong, Taiwan and China).
With more than 20 years of senior management experience, Lau has earned a formidable reputation for his track record in transforming and growing established and start-up businesses while building solid relationships with customers. Most recently, he served as president of Viador, Inc., a leading provider of web-based Business Intelligence (BI) solutions based in Northern Califiornia, US. There, he also served in senior sales positions that included vice president of worldwide sales and vice president of international sales, where he expanded company sales in Europe and Asia Pacific, especially the Greater China area. Under the leadership of Lau, Viador sales increased dramatically in Greater China through direct sales and strategic OEM partnerships with China-based vertical market-focused ISVs (Independent Software Vendors). Lau also established Viador's new outsourcing operation in that country. Earlier, Lau served as general manager of China/Hong Kong region for Hamilton/Brighton Technology Ltd., a U.S.-based IT company. Prior to that, he served in a variety of technical management positions for California-based IT companies.
Anil Dwivedi
Vice President, Japan and Korea, CDC Software
Mr. Dwivedi is CDC Software's Vice President, Country Manager, Japan and Korea. In this role, Mr. Dwivedi is responsible for expanding reseller channels in those countries, and identifying and evaluating merger and acquisition opportunities, including the expansion of the CDC Software franchise partner program to Japan and Korea. Prior to joining CDC Software, Mr. Dwivedi served in various executive leadership positions in the enterprise software industry in China and Japan including senior business development management roles at Wipro Japan KK in Yokohama, Japan where his responsibilities included consulting large Japanese corporations on their IT and off-shoring strategies and selling services related to web technologies, Infrastructure, security and ERP. At HCL in Japan and India his role was focused on sales of SAP services and alliances with SAP. Mr. Dwivedi is a graduate of the premier Institutes IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) and Management Graduate of IIM (Indian Institute of Management).
Jason Rushforth
Senior Vice President, NA Sales, Worldwide Marketing and Strategic Alliances, CDC Software
Jason Rushforth is Senior Vice President for CDC Software, responsible for North American CRM Sales, Worldwide Marketing, and Strategic Alliances. Previously, Mr. Rushforth was CDC Software's Global Vice President of Financial Services, responsible for the long-term global strategy of the financial services vertical of the company's Front Office solutions, which include Pivotal CRM, CDC Respond, CDC MarketFirst, and Saratoga CRM.
Since 2000, Mr. Rushforth has played an instrumental role in the growth of the CDC Software's Front Office products. His deep industry knowledge has guided the company in the development of industry-specific tools for institutional asset management, mutual fund wholesaling, wealth management, capital markets, and commercial banking. As a visionary expert in the application market, especially in the CRM segment, Mr. Rushforth is known for his keynote speaking engagements for such events as the Wealth Management Forum and feature webcasts with Wall Street & Technology and TowerGroup, and he frequently contributes to industry articles in publications such as CRM Magazine, Financial Services Technology, CRM Advocate, Windows in Financial Services, and Commercial Lending Review.
David Cahn
Vice President, Product Strategy
David is a veteran of the software industry with strong business development, practice management skills and deep domain expertise across multiple industry verticals. As VP Product Strategy CDC Software, he is responsible for setting direction and vision for the company product lines and collaborating on the go-to-market strategies. Prior to CDC Software, David was CEO of Y2G Associates, working with ISVs performing business and corporate development activities including product strategy, M&A, capital raising, and channel and alliances development. Cahn previously was a former research director at AMR Research, held managing director positions at KPMG LLP and Answerthink, and performed executive roles at Computer Associates. Cahn is a hands-on leader who is well known to press, analysts, software organizations and consortiums. He has actively participated on software industry panels and conference key notes, relating to directions in distributed computing architectures and enterprise-wide supply-chain management.
David has a B.S. in Business Administration and a strong minor in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University.