Mark J. Barrenechea joined OpenText as President and Chief Executive Officer in January 2012, and also serves as a member of the Board. In January 2016, Mark took on the role of Chief Technology Officer. As CEO of Canada’s largest software company, Mark oversees the strategic direction of the organization and upholds the company’s position at the forefront of the industry. Under his direction, the Company has grown both organically and through strategic acquisitions, into a $1.9 billion technology company.

Mr. Barrenechea has received many accolades over the years. In 2011, the San Francisco Business Times named him the 2011 Best Large Company CEO . Most recently, he was named the 2015 Results-Oriented CEO of the year by the CEO World Awards. The prestigious award recognizes Mr. Barrenechea’s leadership and innovation in attaining results for the company and its customers.

In addition, Mark has authored several books including On Digital , Digital: Disrupt or Die , eGovernment or Out of Government , Enterprise Information Management: The Next Generation of Enterprise Software , Software Rules and e-Business or Out of Business .

For more industry thoughts from Mark, you can read his blog , follow him on  Twitter or connect on LinkedIn .

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Muhi S. Majzoub was named Executive Vice President, Engineering in January 2016. Muhi joined OpenText as Senior Vice President of Engineering in June 2012 reporting to Chief Executive Officer Mark J. Barrenechea. Muhi is responsible for Corporate and Commercial IT, including Cloud Services, as well as defining the vision and strategy for OpenText products, leading the development organization and transitioning OpenText to the cloud.

Prior to OpenText, Muhi was Chief of Products for NorthgateArinso, where he was responsible for defining the company's product vision, strategy and the development life cycle. He focused on consolidating the late software portfolio and developing new product capabilities for both cloud and on-premise solutions.

Muhi has also held the position of Senior Vice President of Product Development for CA, Inc., where he was responsible for the development of the common technology platform and components and integration strategy.

Prior to CA, Muhi was Vice President of Product Development at Oracle Corporation. During his tenure at Oracle, he was responsible for the delivery of the Sales Automation Suite, including Sales Online TeleSales, Sales Compensation, Sales Intelligence and many other Internet technology projects, such as Oracle Store, Oracle.com and the MetaLink TAR system.

Muhi attended San Francisco State University.

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Rebbecca joined Roy Hill in Nov 2013, prior to her current role she was a member of the Technology leadership team building and developing the Roy Hill business and delivering the Technology program of work to meet First Ore On Ship (FOOS) in Dec 2015. She was appointed to the role of General Manager Technology in January 2016.

Rebbecca has worked with start-ups, mid-tier consulting organisations and large Australian businesses including Wesfarmers Agricultural division, AMP and now Roy Hill. She has considerable operational experience and has held Senior Management and Program Management roles including being accountable for the merger and integration of the AMP/AXA Technology shared services operations in 2010.

Roy Hill is an Iron Ore producer established in 2011, based in the Pilbara, WA with a Remote Operations Centre based at Perth Airport. The technology team at Roy Hill are accountable for the spectrum of Technology assets across the organisation.

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Personal Bio
Christopher Johnson has been working in the field of Information Technology for more than 25 years. He has industry experience in marketing, telecommunications, publishing, professional services, media and filmed entertainment. Chris has held multiple Chief Information Officer and “Head of IT” roles throughout his career, and in his current position, he leads the Asia Pacific IT group for Hollywood’s largest film studio – the iconic, Twentieth Century Fox. In addition, Chris holds multiple board positions in the not-for-profit space.

Company Bio
Twentieth Century Fox is one of the world’s most recognised and respected producers and distributors of film and television entertainment. Famous for iconic films such as Star Wars, Alien, Die Hard, James Bond, Ice Age – and Titanic and Avatar, the two highest grossing movie releases of all time. The global headquarters are based in Los Angeles, California, while local offices in more than 30 countries build the distribution structure across the world.

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Adam joined Kina Securities in 2013 and leads its trustee services, financial advice, stockbroking and funds administration businesses. He is an internationally experienced corporate executive with 20+ years of pivotal leadership capability applied across financial services, technology, and professional services sectors, championing growth and market-leading client engagements in the most complex of environments.

Prior to joining Kina Adam held senior roles at Bankers Trust, Colonial First State Investments, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and most recently at PwC where he was Director of Advisory Services. He has gained a reputation as a resourceful and influential business tactician capable of transforming an organisation to provide sustainable corporate outcomes in demanding socio-economic & geo-political environments.

Adam holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New England, an MBA and Master of Project Management from the University of Southern Queensland, and has attended executive education programs at Harvard Business School and the National University of Singapore. He is a member of both the Australian and PNG Institute of Company Directors and is a Non-Executive Director of PNG Registries.

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Adrian Tilley has over 20 years of experience helping customers build the right solutions in telecommunications, managed file transfer, EDI & integration.

He has served as a pre-sales, implementation, and training consultant in both Australia and the USA and has been with OpenText Business Network for 3 years.

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Albert has extensive experience in the Financial Services and Enterprise Business Transformation space. With more than 22 years in Banking and Financial Services Industry (BFSI), he has developed expertise in the creation of new growth engines, digital transformation, and designing high-level business strategies across Asia-Pacific.

His passion in developing Impact, Core Values & Memorable Experience to Senior Executive and Customers alike, guides him to balance both the customers' needs and his deliverables, creating multiple wins-wins for all parties.

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Bernd is responsible for ensuring sales success for a set of products and solutions within the Ecosystems team at OpenText. Bernd started his career in 2000 as a consultant in the ECM practice of Accenture. He then was co-founder and Product Manager of Platform Dynamics, an EMC Documentum partner headquartered in US and Germany, specialized on object-level backup and disaster recovery solutions for Documentum. Bernd joined OpenText in November 2007 and since then dedicates his work to the OpenText Solutions for Microsoft, Oracle and Salesforce with a focus on GTM strategy and Strategic Alliances.

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Bruce Sandeman leads the OpenText Solution Consulting organisation with regards to OpenText Cloud strategy and security working closely with OpenText Product Engineering, Cloud Services, Professional Services, Sales & Marketing. Bruce speaks at OpenText events as well as industry events, in addition to working closely with our customers and sales organisation to understand customer based cloud strategies and to assist in forming cloud solutions for our customers. Bruce’s background is in professional services, architecture and development, working alongside many large global enterprises to form strategy, solutions and integrations. Bruce has over 20+ years’ experience within the IT industry; over 9 years of which have been at OpenText.

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David has over 20 years’ experience in designing and implementing messaging solutions. He has been involved in providing messaging solutions in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, USA, United Kingdom, Italy, Greece, Israel and South Africa. He has been in his current role as Senior Solution Consultant at OpenText for 5 years.

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Guy Hellier is VP, Product Management, for the Experience Suite and Customer Experience Management (CEM) products at OpenText. Guy leads the team of CEM product managers delivering solutions for digital asset management (DAM), multi-channel customer communications (CCM), digital experiences with web content management (WCM), and call center workforce optimization (WFO). With 17 years of experience in the digital media and customer experience space, Guy is responsible for the Experience Suite product strategy and bringing OpenText CEM solutions to market. Guy holds a Master’s degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Virginia.

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Isam Alyousfi is a Vice President of Product Development at Open Text. Isam is responsible for the development of BPM products which feature Process Suite. Isam has been with Open Text for over 3 years. Isam is an industry veteran who joined Open Text after spending close to 20 years at Oracle in various leadership roles. Prior to Oracle, he worked on various software development projects.

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Marc heads up Product Management for Enterprise Application at OpenText with responsibility for product strategy and roadmap for OpenText's SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce solutions.

He is Working closely with customers, development and product specialists to research current and emerging challenges in information management and to works to deliver technologies to meet these challenges facing the information worker and how content can be leveraged into the daily business processes they perform.

Marc has more than 16 years in Document Management, EIM, ECM, Knowledge Management and Process Management and holds a Master and PhD in Computer Science.

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Carol was a member of the core management team steering the U.S. Department of the Interior’s enterprise-wide content management system with auto-categorization serving 98,000 users in all 50 states from a FISMA-moderate cloud in full-compliance with federal regulations and guidance.

She was the former Director of Information Assets for the U.S. Government Accountability Office. At GAO, she successfully spearheaded a NARA pilot project for simplified records scheduling and implemented an enterprise-wide electronic recordkeeping system for which she earned the National Archivist’s Achievement Award. She has 20+ years of Federal RM experience as a contractor, consultant, and Federal employee. Carol is also a Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin working on a Ph.D. in Digital Preservation.

Carol is a founding member of the U.S. Federal Information and Records Management (FIRM) Council and is an active member of ARMA and AIIM. As a member of AIIM's C-30 Committee, she co-authored the EDM/ERM Integrated Functional Requirements.

Carol is a frequent speaker on the topics of electronic records and document management technologies. In June 2010, Carol provided invited expert testimony, “Federal Electronic Records Management: A Status Report” on behalf of ARMA, International before the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

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Craig Le Quesne has led technology teams for over 15 years and currently holds the role of Chief Technology Officer at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The technology group had some catch up to do after a period of under investment, so key technology goals for the museum have been to increase the resiliency and redundancy, modernisation and mobility. The move to Content server software as a service fits in with these goals.

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Daniel has worked across all functional levels of enterprise IT working in education, mining, local/state government and oil & gas, energy companies over the last 15 years. His experience covers Enterprise Content Management, Records & Document Management, Knowledge Solutions, Master Data Management & Governance, Reporting & Analytics, Communications & Information Technology systems and processes.

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Based in Sydney, George joined OpenText in 2016 to lead the Asia Pacific Portfolio team, which is responsible for expansion of the eDOCS user base. Prior to OpenText, George spent 15 years in various senior management roles while based in Asia and Southern Africa. George has 20+ years technology solution experience gained from roles with companies such as Travelport, PacNet and Vodafone.

George will be joined by James Roberts who has been in the information management industry, primarily in presales roles, for nearly thirty years. He has covered a variety of document imaging, EDRM and archiving systems during this time.

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James has been in the information management industry, primarily in presales roles, for nearly thirty years. He has covered a variety of document imaging, EDRM and archiving systems during this time. James has previously held presales roles in Hummingbird and was the presales manager for ANZ helping to win a number of large government and commercial customers. Most recently, he was part of the EMC Enterprise Content Division when it moved to OpenText.

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With over 20 years of experience in web applications, Marci has developed a passion for helping organizations improve their digital marketing, online commerce and customer self-service engagement. Her passion is taken back out to the community through her writing, videos, webinars and social network while continuously innovating the go-to-market best practices within OpenText. Marci oversees product marketing of the Customer Experience Management set of products within OpenText, helping organizations realize their Digital Experience vision with media, web, social, contact center and communications solutions. Marci has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas and an MBA with a concentration in e-Business.

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Janet is responsible for global go-to-market strategies for OpenText compliance solutions. Janet has 15+ years’ experience in the information management (IM) space including time as an IM strategist and instructor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information Studies. She is passionate about helping organizations build strong information governance programs in the digital world. Follow her on Twitter @Janet_DeGuzman.

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With over 25 years of industry experience developing and marketing solutions in the communications market, he has a wealth of experience helping industry leading customers digitize their enterprises to meet critical business challenges, grow revenue and improve customer experience.

In the past he has also held senior managerial positions with Agfa Corporation, Electronics for Imaging (EFI), Kodak and Polaroid, as well as being a contributing editor for Converting Magazine.

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Lynn Elwood is responsible for global Cloud and Professional Services market strategy and go to market at OpenText. This includes delivery of Solutions for Cloud and Services, Field and Services enablement, market and internal messaging and positioning and customer evangelism.

Presenting and meeting with customers and partners around the world, Lynn shares insights on strategy and benefits realization as organizations consider cloud and hybrid application scenarios. With over 30 years of experience she has worked with technology companies in a variety of leadership roles including engineering, product management and portfolio ownership. Lynn enjoys working with cross-functional global teams driving technology and cultural change.

Based in Toronto, Lynn can be found on Twitter @l_elwood or ca.linkedin.com/in/lelwood.

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Mark Gamble leads a team of engineers who build, maintain, and demonstrate reference applications based on OpenText Analytics products. He joined the company as a field engineer over 15 years ago and spent many years implementing analytics and reporting applications for financial services, insurance, manufacturing and other customers. His knowledge and experience enable him to address both the technical and business benefits of OpenText Analytics.

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Martin is currently responsible for the Energy & Engineering Industry Strategy within OpenText. Based on his extensive experience in the industry and with content management solutions, Martin has worked with customers and lead the effort to design, develop, and deploy industry solutions aimed at managing documents and processes with the engineering functions of energy companies. Martin started his career as a Plant Engineer in the Automotive Industry in the UK before moving to Intergraph’s Plant Design Team in the late 1980’s and has been in the IT industry since then. Martin started working with the Documentum products in 1995 while at Cap Gemini and was a founder and EVP at McLaren Software and established their US operations. Martin joined EMC’s Content Division in 2004 and was Global head of sales for Professional Services before heading up the Energy and Engineering business in 2011.

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As Senior Director, Product Marketing, Marco is responsible for global product marketing, messaging and setting strategic direction at OpenText Business Network, the market leader in secure B2B information exchange. Marco has over 25 years of experience in supply chain automation and e-commerce spanning multiple industries. Prior to joining OpenText, Marco led all marketing activity at 7thonline, a leader in supply chain planning. Prior to 7thonline, Marco headed up strategic marketing at Global Healthcare Exchange, where he drove market development and commercialization of new industry solutions for supply chain automation, driving billions in savings for the healthcare industry. Prior to GHX, Marco held several leadership positions with GXS (now OpenText), Serena Software and AT&T (both Lucent Technologies and NCR divisions). Marco received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, and his Master’s degree from the American University in Washington, DC. He has also pursued continuing education with Wharton’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Marco lives in the Washington, DC metro area.

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Nicholas Carter is responsible for the product directions for the complete Enterprise Content Management portfolio, including Content Server, Archive Server and Applications such as Email Management and Tempo Box. Prior to joining OpenText in 2008 he worked with Cincom Systems to create a brand new document generation and output product for the company which won technical and design awards on launch. He works with a team of product managers and developers on the next generations of OpenText software, presents at Enterprise World and on the Innovation Tour and is based in Luxembourg.

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Nicholas Wade is a data evangelist, his passion starting with Dr. Terry Halpin who formalized Object-Role modelling. He studied Information Technology and started his career as a ERP Developer. Today he serves as Senior Enterprise Data Architect, setting strategic direction of all data capabilities across the organisation. Nicholas has worked in many industries and countries. He complements a technical background with variable focus, having worked on three continents for diverse private sector organisations for over two decades.

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Thomas is a product management leader with more than 20 years of experience. Responsible for the definition and execution of the strategy of the OpenText Extended ECM applications, which integrate into SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, and Salesforce business applications as well as cover focused business solutions for Engineering and Government.

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Stephen Ludlow leads Product Marketing for OpenText’s Enterprise business unit. In this role, he serves as a subject matter expert for ECM, Information Governance and eDiscovery - both internally and with OpenText’s diverse client base. Mr. Ludlow frequently speaks at industry and customer events on Information Governance and Discovery trends, technologies and best practices. Mr. Ludlow’s previous information management experience includes positions in Product Management, Professional Services, and private consulting with the Canadian Federal Government and Fortune 500 companies.

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