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Executive Leadership
CDC Corporation
Directors
Management
| Peter Yip |
CEO |
| Donald L. Novajosky |
Associate General Counsel, CDC Corporation |
| Matthew S. Lavelle |
Chief Financial Officer, CDC Corporation |
| Monish Bahl |
Vice President, Investor Relations, CDC Corporation and Corporate Communications |
| Loren Wimpfheimer |
Senior Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions, CDC Corporation |
| Gregor Morela |
Chief Accounting Officer, CDC Corporation |
| Matt Wynn |
Vice President, Treasurer, CDC Corporation |
| Sammy Cheng |
Vice President of Finance, CDC Corporation |
CDC Software
Directors
Management
| Bruce Cameron |
President, CDC Software |
| Matthew S. Lavelle |
Chief Financial Officer, CDC Software |
| Alan MacLamroc |
Chief Product and Technology Officer, CDC Software |
| Mark Sutcliffe |
President, CDC Factory, CDC Software |
| Donald L. Novajosky |
General Counsel, CDC Software |
| Monish Bahl |
Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications, CDC Corporation |
| Loren Wimpfheimer |
Senior Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions, CDC Corporation |
| William Geist |
Executive Vice President, Customer Servces, North America, CDC Software |
| Niklas Rönnbäck |
Senior Vice President |
| Frank Hung |
Managing Director, Australia, CDC Software |
| Edmund Lau |
Vice President, Greater China, CDC Software |
| Sean Yu |
Vice President, CDC Software and Chairman, CDC Software (China) |
| Jason Rushforth |
Vice President, Worldwide Marketing CDC Software |
CDC Games
Directors
Management Team
| Jingqing Sun |
General Manager of CDC Games |
| Monish Bahl |
Chief Financial Officer, CDC Games |
| Sammy Cheng |
Chief Accounting Officer, CDC Games |
China.com
Management Team
| Sammy Cheng |
Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, China.com |
CDC Corporation Bios
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.
Peter Yip
Executive Vice Chairman and CEO
Peter Yip is the chief executive officer of the Company and vice chairman of our board of directors. In addition, Mr. Yip serves as executive chairman to the board of directors of CDC Software. Mr. Yip was a founder of the Company and served as chief executive officer between 1999 and February 2005. Under his leadership, the Company 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 U.S. capital markets. Mr. Yip is also a non-executive director of the Company's Hong Kong listed subsidiary China.com Inc., and has served as vice-chairman of the China.com Inc. board since 1999. Mr. Yip is chairman of China Pacific Capital, and has over two decades of entrepreneurial and direct investment experience in the U.S. and the Asia Pacific region in which he has co-founded or provided seed funding to a number of successful start-up entities, including Linkage Online, Gartner Group Asia, YipKon Business Systems and Online Software Asia. In addition, Mr. Yip's family-owned direct investment fund has made a number of successful co-investments with institutional investors, corporate investors and high net worth individuals, including CEF (a prior joint venture between Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited and GE Capital), a Temasek Holdings company, Xinhua News Agency, Bechtel Enterprises Inc., Mitsui & Co. Ltd., Bay Networks Inc., SunMicrosystems Inc., 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. In 2000, the Wharton Business School presented Mr. Yip with the Asian Alumni Entrepreneur Award. Mr. Yip received a master's degree in business administration from the Wharton School and both a master's degree and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He also received an associate degree in Engineering and an hononary doctorate degree in Business from Vincennes University, Indiana.
Thomas M. Britt III
Board Member & chairman of Audit CommitteeO
Thomas M. Britt, III has served as an independent director of our board of directors since May 2000. Mr. Britt is a partner with the international law firm, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, resident in the firm's Hong Kong office. Prior to joining Debevoise & Plimpton in 2004, Mr. Britt was the Managing Director of IRG Limited, an investment banking boutique he co-founded in 2000. Prior to co-founding IRG, Mr. Britt was the senior partner of the US Securities Group in the Hong Kong office of Clifford Chance LLP, the world's largest law firm, and the founding and managing partner of the Hong Kong office of Rogers & Wells LLP, a leading US law firm. Mr. Britt has a juris doctor and a master's degree in business administration from New York University and a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University.
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John Clough
Board Member & Chairman of Executive Committee
Carrick John Clough has served as a director of our board of directors since December 2003. In addition, Mr. Clough has served as the chairman of the executive committee of our board of directors since August 2005 and currently serves as vice chairman of the board of directors of CDC Software and chairman of the board of Praxa Limited. Mr. Clough also currently serves as chairman of Corgi International Ltd, a NASDAQ listed company. Further, he has been a special advisor to General Atlantic Partners since December 2000. Before joining General Atlantic Partners, Mr. Clough gained over 25 years of management experience in the IT industry internationally. He was a co-founder and managing director of the CSSL Group, a mid-range software distributor and hardware reseller in Asia. Prior to co-founding the CSSL Group, Mr. Clough held the position of general manager of JBA in Asia, an Australia-based worldwide mid-range software distributor, and gained working experience as a consultant in the United Kingdom and Europe. Mr. Clough received his education in New Zealand.
Simon Wong
Board Member & Chairman of Compensation Committee
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.
Fred Wang
Independent Director
Fred, Cheung Yu Wang, has served as an independent director of our board of directors since October 2005. The Wang family founded Salon Films (Hong Kong) Limited ("Salon") in 1969. Mr. Wang has been a director of Salon since 1970 and he has worked with various major Hollywood film and television companies in setting up projects in Asia. Since 1985, Mr. Wang has been involved with various investment groups in Asia notably Unifund S.A., a Geneva based investment service company. Mr. Wang's current projects include a multimedia satellite investment business covering the Pacific Asia region as well as high definition technology of film and TV development in Asia. Mr. Wang is the Hon. Vice President of the China Film Foundation, a member of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council Entertainment Industry Advisory Committee, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federation of Hong Kong Business Associations Worldwide and Director of the Board of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society Limited. Mr. Wang graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business and Economics from Whittier College, California.
Donald L. Novajosky
Associate General Counsel, CDC Corporation
Donald L. Novajosky is Associate General Counsel of CDC Corporation. He also serves as General Counsel for CDC Software. 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.
Matthew S. Lavelle
Chief Financial Officer, CDC Corporation
Matthew Lavelle is Chief Financial Officer of CDC Corporation and CDC Software. He is responsible for forecasting and budgeting, monthly reporting and analysis, developing and tracking operating performance metrics, and establishing monthly business review processes for the company and its business units.
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.
Monish Bahl
Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications, CDC Corporation
Mr. Bahl is responsible for communicating the company's financial and other relevant information to shareholders, the financial community and the media. 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.
Loren Wimpfheimer
Senior Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions, CDC Corporation
Loren Wimpfheimer is Senior Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) for CDC Corporation and is responsible for managing the mergers and acquisition activities primarily at CDC Software.
Mr. Wimpfheimer has more than 15 years of experience in the M&A lifecycle, from identifying growth areas to negotiating purchases and sales to integrating acquired companies. He has completed more than 80 M&A transactions with an aggregate value of more than $10 billion.
Prior to joining CDC Corporation, Mr. Wimpfheimer was Chief Executive Officer and President of Iventa Corporation, a privately-held, Southern California-based software provider of eCommerce SaaS applications, where he led the restructuring and ultimate sale of the company. Earlier, he was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Witness Systems, a workforce optimization software provider, where he led strategic growth initiatives that contributed to their ten-fold revenue growth and later sale to another public company. Before that, he was Senior Vice President of Business Development for Harbinger Corporation.
He holds a BA in economics from Emory University and a Juris Doctor (JD) from Columbia University Law School.
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Gregor Morela
Chief Accounting Officer, CDC Corporation
Gregor Morela, CPA, is Chief Accounting Officer for CDC Corporation. Prior to this role, he was Controller of CDC Software, the enterprise software division of CDC Corporation. He joined CDC Corporation in April 2006 as a director of financial reporting. Prior to joining CDC Corporation, Mr. Morela served as a director of financial reporting for Serologicals, a publicly held biotechnology company in Atlanta. Prior to his employment with Serologicals, Mr. Morela was the audit manager with Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Morela has extensive experience in the application of U.S. GAAP including SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Mr. Morela holds a bachelor of science degree in Economics from the University in Ljubljana, Slovenia and is a member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Matt Wynn
Vice President, Treasurer, CDC Corporation
Mr. Wynn is vice president and treasurer of CDC Corporation. As treasurer, he is responsible for corporate finance, treasury and risk management activities for the company.
Prior to this role, Mr. Wynn was a director of Finance at CDC Software, the enterprise software unit of CDC Corporation. He joined CDC Corporation in April 2006 as a manager of financial planning and analysis.
Earlier, he held several roles in finance and accounting at UPS Supply Chain Solutions and UPS Logistics Group. Mr. Wynn has an extensive background in finance with a focus on financial valuation, business planning and mergers and acquisitions. He holds a bachelor's in Business Administration from Emory University and a master's in Business Administration from Georgia State University.
CDC Software Bios
Peter Yip
Executive Chairman of the Board and CEO, 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
Vice Chairman of the Board 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.
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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.
Samson Tam, Ph.D.
Independent Director, CDC Software
Mr. Tam is the chairman and CEO of Group Sense (International) Limited, overseeing the overall strategy formulation and creation of business and technology partnerships. Mr. Tam and his brother co-founded Group Sense Limited in 1988 and launched the world's first English-Chinese electronic dictionary in 1989, under the brand name "Instant-Dict". In 1993, the company was restructured and was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the holding vehicle Group Sense (International) Limited. Mr. Tam is currently the chairman of the Hong Kong Electronics Industry Council and is also sitting on a number of different key advisory committees and councils in the public sector. He is often invited to speak at conferences and seminars on technology, industry and management. He graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1986 with a Bachelor's degree in Science and Electronics and holds a Ph.D. from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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.
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.
Sin Just Wong
Director
Sin Just Wong has served as an independent director of our board since February, 2007 and is the chairman of our audit committee. In addition, Mr. Wong has served as an independent non-executive director of China.com Inc., an affiliated company, since November 1999. He is the executive and co-chairman of E2-Capital (Holdings) Limited, executive vice-chairman and chief executive officer of Softbank Investment International (Strategic) Limited, chairman of SBI E2-Capital Asia Holdings Limited and independent non-executive director of Capital Strategic Investment Limited, alternate director to Ong Tiang Lock of Intelligent Edge Technologies Berhad and non-executive director of Westcomb Financial Group Limited. Mr. Wong possesses over 10 years of investment banking and venture capital experience, and has held positions with a number of international investment banks. Mr. Wong holds a bachelor of engineering degree from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London and is an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales.
Bruce Cameron
President, 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 Software
Matthew Lavelle is Chief Financial Officer of CDC Corporation and CDC Software. He is responsible for forecasting and budgeting, monthly reporting and analysis, developing and tracking operating performance metrics, and establishing monthly business review processes for the company and its business units.
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.
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Alan MacLamroc
Chief Product and 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.
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.
Mark Sutcliffe
President, CDC Factory, CDC Software
Mark Sutcliffe is president for the company's CDC Factory solution, 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.
Donald L. Novajosky
General counsel, CDC Software
Donald L. Novajosky is 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.
Monish Bahl
Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications, CDC Corporation
Mr. Bahl is responsible for communicating 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.
William Geist
Executive vice President, Customer Services, North America, CDC Software
Mr. Geist is responsible for delivery of software services to CDC Software's North American customers and global support for all CDC products.
Mr. Geist most recently served as a partner at Tatum, L.L.C., an Atlanta-based national consultancy focused on providing financial, strategic and technology services to companies in transition, accelerating their business growth and creating value. Previous experience also includes serving as CEO for Application Partners, L.L.C., a consultancy providing business intelligence and data warehousing services; senior vice president and vice president for Headstrong, Inc., an international consultancy; partner and branch manager of Whittman-Hart, Inc.; director and group manager of Cambridge Technology Partners, Inc.; vice president, Information Technology and Services for Scientific Atlanta, Inc., and several other IT management positions.
Niklas Rönnbäck
Senior Vice President
Niklas Rönnbäck is Senior Vice President at CDC Software. He is responsible for the 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.
Frank Hung
Managing Director, Australia, CDC Software
Frank Hung has served as CDC Software's managing director of Australia since January 2007 and is responsible for operations activity for Australia and New Zealand.
Mr. Hung has more than 25 years of experience in the technology sector and has held various international and senior management positions throughout Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Before joining CDC Software, Mr Hung served as the Managing Director, Australia, and Chief Operating Officer, Asia Pacific, for Maximizer Software, where he oversaw all customer relationship management (CRM) operations for the company throughout the Asia Pacific region. Prior to Maximizer Software, Mr. Hung served as Chief Operating Officer, Asia for Powerlan Limited. While at Powerlan, he played an instrumental role in the initial merger of CSSL Group and Powerlan and led the integration of the companies' infrastructure, operations and combined services and solutions.
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, U.S. 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.
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 offshore 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 ensure CDC Software's rapid growth in China, he also identifies and examines acquisition targets, conducts due diligence analysis, 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 guidance are still supporting a number of globally-known companies today in 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 received his M.S. in operations research and M.A. in urban planning from Harvard University.
Jason Rushforth
Vice President, Worldwide Marketing CDC Software
As Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Jason Rushforth is responsible for managing lead generation, account development and marketing activities for CDC Software's products that include Front Office, Process Manufacturing and Supply Chain. Previously, Mr. Rushforth was Global Vice President of Financial Services, where he was 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 destinationCRM.com, Financial Services Technology, CRM Advocate, Windows in Financial Services, and Commercial Lending Review.
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CDC Games Bios
Fred Wang
Director and Chairman of the Board
Fred Wang has served as an independent director and chairman of our board since September 2006 and is a member of our compensation and executive committees. Mr. Wang serves as the chairman of our nominating committee. In addition, Mr. Wang has served as an independent director of our parent company, CDC Corporation, since October 2005, and an independent non-executive director of China.com Inc., an affiliated company, since February 2002 Mr. Wang has been a director of Salon Films (Hong Kong) Limited, a company founded by the Wang family, since 1969. Mr. Wang is the honorary vice president of the China Film Foundation, director of the board of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society Limited, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federation of Hong Kong Business Associations Worldwide. Mr. Wang graduated with a bachelor's degree in Business and Economics from Whittier College in the United States.
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 Board Director, CDC Games
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.
Jingqing Sun
General Manager of CDC Games
Jingqing Sun is General Manager of CDC Games. He entered the Chinese online game industry in 2000. During this time, Jingqing successfully worked in several high-level positions at game companies such as Beijing Wayi, Hongxiang and 17GAME which was acquired by CDC Games. He became the general manager of 17GAME in November 2007. Under his direction, 17GAME continuously improved its growth and efficiency.
China.com Bios
Sammy Cheng
COO, CFO, China.com
Sammy Cheng is Chief Operating Officer and chief financial officer for China.com, a business unit of CDC Corporation, and brings a range of extensive financial and management experience to the organization. He also serves as Vice President of Finance for CDC Corporation and Chief Accounting Officer for CDC Games.
Mr. Cheng has previously held senior management positions in international institutions including Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd, Salomon Smith Barney Ltd, Citibank, Bank of America Trust, Hong Kong and Unisys Corporation Hong Kong and Singapore.
He holds a doctoral degree in Business Administration from University of South Australia and a master's degree in Business Administration from University of Hull, United Kingdom.
He is a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, United Kingdom; and an associate member of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, United Kingdom.