Micro Focus International Plc
MCRO:LN
Overview
Company Profile
Micro Focus is a provider of management software. It provides software solutions for assessing, managing and modernizing existing applications.
Classification
Financials
Corporate
Board of Directors
Kevin Loosemore
Executive Chairman
Kevin was previously non-executive Chairman of Morse plc, a non-executive director of Nationwide Building Society and a non-executive director of the Big Food Group plc. His most recent executive roles were as Chief Operating Officer of Cable & Wireless plc, President of Motorola Europe, Middle East and Africa and before that, he was Chief Executive of IBM UK Limited. Kevin was appointed non-executive Chairman of the Company in 2005 and Executive Chairman in April 2011. He has a degree in politics and economics from Oxford University.
Mike Phillips
Chief Financial Officer
Mike joined Micro Focus on 7 September 2010 and was previously Chief Executive Officer at Morse plc, following his initial role as Group Finance Director. Mike left Morse plc in July 2010 following the turnaround and successful corporate sale to 2e2 in June 2010. From 1998 to 2007, Mike was Group Finance Director at Microgen plc and played a lead role in the transformation of the company to an international software and services business with sustainable and profitable growth. Earlier roles include seven years corporate finance work at Smith & Williamson, as well as two years at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he led the UK technology team, reporting to the global Head of Corporate Finance for the Technology Sector. Mike began his career at Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co (now KPMG). Mike was a non-executive director of Parity Group plc between November 2011 to September 2013.
Karen Slatford
Senior Independent Non-executive Director
Karen is Chair of Neverfail Group Limited, the continuous availability firm, The Foundry, a leading special effects software company and Featurespace Ltd, a data analytics software company. Karen is also Deputy Chairman and non-executive director at Volex Group plc, the global supplier of components and cables and Cambridge Broadband Networks Ltd, a market leader in wireless solutions. Prior to her current board responsibilities, she has held various roles at board level since 2001 at a range of technology companies, including Portwise AB, Via Networks, Inc, Compel Group plc, HAL Knowledge Systems and Stepstone ASA. Karen began her career at ICL before spending 20 years at Hewlett Packard, where in 2000 she became Vice President and General Manager Worldwide Sales & Marketing for the Business Customer Organisation, responsible for sales of all Hewlett Packard’s products, services and software to business customers globally. Karen holds a BA Honours degree in European Studies from Bath University and a Diploma in Marketing.
Tom Skelton
Independent Non-executive Director
Tom is Chief Executive Officer of Foundation Radiology Group and a founding member of Confluence Medical Systems, a healthcare and technology consulting partnership. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer for Misys Healthcare Systems from January 2002 until March 2007 and as a director of Misys plc. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive Officer of Medic Computer Systems, a US-based software company focused on the healthcare information technology market. He earned his BSBA from Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Tom Virden
Independent Non-executive Director
Tom is a non-executive director of Atari Inc (publicly traded on the French stock exchange) and technology start-up Sweetbeam. He began his career at Apple Inc and held a range of leadership roles in market development and product marketing, including the leadership of the company’s introduction to Small Business and the Music industry. More recently, Tom was International Business Development Director at lastminute.com with responsibility for International Strategy for the company and launching subsidiaries and fully localised sites in France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia and Ireland. Prior to that, he was Vice President, Marketing at Digidesign, a California company that brought digital multitrack recording and editing to personal computers. Tom has also started and led a number of technology companies including Katz Media SARL, Virtual European Office (VEO), and most recently, Boatbookings.com, the world’s largest online yacht charter site, with 8,000 yachts worldwide. Tom holds a Bachelor of Arts, Double Major in Psychology and Economics from Stanford University in the US.
Prescott Ashe
Non-Executive Director
Prescott is a Managing Director of Golden Gate Capital. He has 15 years of private equity investing experience and has participated in both growth-equity and management buyout transactions with more than US$10 billion in value. Prescott focuses on (i) technology-related industries (specifically software, IT services, electronic hardware and manufacturing services), (ii) the consumer products and retail sectors, and (iii) business services. Prior to joining Golden Gate Capital, Prescott was a Principal at Bain Capital, which he initially joined in 1991, and a strategy consultant at Bain & Company. Prescott was one of two Non-Executive Directors nominated by Golden Gate pursuant to a relationship agreement with the Company dating from its IPO in 2005, which entitled Golden Gate, inter alia, to appoint up to two Directors. On 8 September 2008, following a reduction in Golden Gate Capital’s shareholding in the Company, Prescott resigned his directorship. He holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley (graduating first in his class).
David Golob
Non-Executive Director
David joined Francisco Partners as a Partner in 2001. He focuses primarily on the software and technology-enabled services industries. Prior to Francisco Partners, David was a Managing Director with Tiger Management, where he was co-head of the global technology group. Earlier in his career, David worked as a private equity investor at General Atlantic Partners, which he initially joined in 1991, and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and an AB in Chemistry from Harvard College, summa cum laude.
Karen Geary
Independent Non-Executive Director
Karen is Chief People Officer of WANdisco plc, responsible for Human Resources and Internal Communications. She is also a member of the executive management team. Karen has more than 20 years of international HR and business transformation experience across a variety of industries, managing organisations through periods of large scale change, acquisition and integration. She spent 15 years at The Sage Group plc, a FTSE 100 business and the world’s largest provider of business software to SME’s, where she was Group Human Resources Director and a member of the Executive Committee. Prior to Sage, Karen was HR Director of Stena Line, the Swedish transport and leisure operator and spent her early career in blue chip global businesses.