Leadership

  • Leadership
  • Board of Directors
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Alex LeClerc
President, Poka
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Fred Brady
Senior VP Strategic Initiatives
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Goiuri Hernandez
Global Commercial Director
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Janice Cabaltica
Senior, VP, Head of Global Delivery
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Jesper Alwal
General Counsel
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Johan Made
Chief Commercial Officer
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Laerke Kjaerulff
COO, R&D
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Mary Lyke
CRO, Energy & Resources
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Matt Smith
Chief Architect
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Max Roberts
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
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Merlin Knott
President, Enterprise Service Management
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Preeti Saini
Senior Vice President, Global Marketing
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Ranil Rajapakse
Senior VP, Offshore Operations
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Scott Helmer
President, A&D
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Scott Lockhart
President, Energy & Resources
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Thilanka Jayathilake
HR, Offshore Operations

IFS Group

 Overview of the Directors
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Darren Roos

CHAIR OF THE BOARD

Principal occupation: Directorships and advisor in Enterprise Software businesses

Other assignments: Chairman of Thinkproject; board member of Sitecore; co-founder of innerwings.org.

Previous assignments: Former CEO of IFS and has held a number of senior positions within SAP, including President of their global ERP Cloud business. Has also worked as President, International for Software AG before joining the Group Executive Board.

Born: 1974. Elected: 2024

Jacqueline de Rojas CBE

BOARD DIRECTOR

Principal occupation: Directorships, President of techUK and Advocate for Diversity & Inclusion

Other assignments: Chair of Metapraxis, Non-Executive Director at Rightmove plc, FDM Group plc, Costain Group plc and Mentor at Merryck Group

Previous assignments and work experience:  A 30 year career in enterprise software having held senior leadership positions in global tech businesses, including: Citrix, CA Technologies, McAfee, Novell and Business Objects.

Education:  Dual degree in European Business at Middlesex University & Fachhochschule Reutlingen, EIC Non-Violent Communication, PCIC Henley Business School.

Born: 1962. Elected: 2021.

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Johannes Reichel

BOARD DIRECTOR

Principal occupation: Partner at EQT Partners

Other assignments: Deputy board director of SUSE and Acumatica.

Previous assignments and work experience: Deutsche Bank. Deputy board director of Automic Software, CBR Fashion Group, and Lima Corporate.

Education: B.Sc in Business Administration and Economics and MBA from the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.

Born: 1981. Elected: 2016.

Hanna Jacobsson

BOARD DIRECTOR

Principal occupation: Directorships

Other assignments: Member of the Board at Skandia, Tink and DBT

Previous assignments and work experience: Chief Risk Officer at Klarna, Group CFO for Life & Pensions at Nordea, Deputy CFO at Skandia Norden, Actuary Consultant.

Previous assignments and work experience: Chief Risk Officer at Klarna, Group CFO for Life & Pensions at Nordea, Deputy CFO at Skandia Norden, Actuary Consultant.

Education: Masters degree in Mathematical Statistics from Stockholm University

Born: 1981. Elected: 2021.

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Nic Humphries

BOARD DIRECTOR

Principal occupation: Senior Partner and Executive Chairman of Hg

Other assignments: Nic is currently a Director on the boards of Argus Media, Benevity, Insightsoftware, IRIS and Visma. 

Education: Nic holds a first class degree in Electronic Engineering and was an IEEE and National Engineering Council scholar. 

Born: 1967. Elected:2022.

Naveen Wadhera

BOARD DIRECTOR

Principal occupation: Managing Director at TA Associates

Other assignments: Board representation at Compusoft, DOCUnordic, Ideal Cures, Interswitch, Priority Software, RateGain, RLDatix

Previous assignments and work experience: Co-founded TA’s European and Asian efforts; currently co-head of TA's Europe Technology Group. Previous roles at Goldman Sachs, Accretive LLC, and Broadview International

Education: BSc in System Engineering from University of Pennsylvania, MBA from Wharton School of Business

Elected: 2020.

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Craig Conway

BOARD DIRECTOR

Principal occupation: Directorships

Other assignments: Board director of Salesforce, Nutanix, and Sitecore.

Previous assignments and work experience: CEO of Peoplesoft, One Touch Systems, and TGV Software. Executive Chairman of Guidewire and Achievers. Board director of Pegasystems, AMD, Unisys, Success Factors, and others. Executive Vice President at Oracle Corporation.

Born: 1954. Elected: 2017.

Martina Wallenberg

BOARD OBSERVER

Principal occupation: Head of Open Banking and Cloud Change Lead at SEB

Other assignments: Board member of Ready Digital AB, Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation and Jacob Wallenberg Foundation, Owner of Restaurant Hasselbo in Stockholm

Previous assignments: Liquidity Controller for Daily Liquidity Coverage Ratio at SEB, Audit assistant at PwC

Education: Bachelor of Economics with an Emphasis on Business from University of Colorado – Boulder

Born: 1989. Elected: 2021

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John Walsh

BOARD DIRECTOR

Principal occupation: Accenture’s Chief Strategic Accounts and Global Sales Officer.

Previous assignments and work experience: 35 year career at Accenture that included running, as Group CEO, Accenture’s Communications, Media & Technology (CMT) business. Previous non-exec director appointments at Adchemy (acquired by Walmart), Vlocity (acquired by Salesforce) and Churchill Club (a prominent Silicon Valley non-for-profit).

Education: Executive Management Program at IMD, and a degree from Iowa State University.

Born: 1964. Elected: 2022.

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