CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

27 March 2007

Company News

Open Text Names Gail E. Hamilton to Board of Directors

Open Text T Corporation announced the election of Gail E. Hamilton to its board of directors during Open Text's Annual General Meeting on December 7, 2006. Ms Hamilton is the former executive vice president of Symantec and has over 20 years experience growing leading technology and services businesses in the enterprise market.

"Gail brings with her a wealth of executive management expertise in the software industry," said John Shackleton, President and Chief Executive Officer of Open Text. "Her extensive operational knowledge and deep understanding of enterprise software is a strategic asset to our board."

Most recently Gail Hamilton led a team of over 2,000 employees worldwide at Symantec and had P&L responsibility for the global services and support business. Previously, she led all of Symantec's consumer and enterprise product development, marketing and support. During her five years at Symantec, Ms Hamilton helped steer the company through an aggressive acquisition strategy. Previous to Symantec, she gained extensive management experience at Compaq and Hewlett-Packard Company, as well as Microtec Research.

Gail Hamilton is a member of the board of directors of Ixia (a provider of IP network testing solutions), Washington Group International (an engineering and construction services company) and Surgient (a supplier of virtualization technology). She received both a BSEE from the University of Colorado and an MSEE from Stanford University.

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