Board of directors

Johan Volckaerts has been Chair of the Company's Board of Directors since its incorporation in November 1996.

He joined Andlinger & Company Europe in 1988 and was appointed managing partner in 1992. He is also the chair and board member of various European companies.

From 1978 to 1986, Mr. Volckaerts served at ITT Corporation in various senior finance management positions. He holds an MBA from the University of London.

Gary Fry was appointed Chief Executive Officer in June 2008.

He was formerly Managing Director of Adobe Systems Benelux, where he had worked since 2001.

Prior to joining Adobe Mr Fry held various sales and management positions in the IT industry including European sales manager for Catalyst Solutions, a leading provider of enterprise-wide IT solutions, head of industrial support sales for Oracle, and a nine-year period with IBM, initially in engineering and then in sales.

Alain Pronost joined the Company in August 1999 as Chief Financial Officer.

Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Pronost served as an audit manager at KPMG Audit, including as the audit manager responsible for the Company since May 1996.

Mr. Pronost has a degree in business administration and accounting.

He was appointed a Director of the Company in June 2000.

Clare Findlay has more than 20 years’ experience at senior level positions in the computer software industry and is managing director of the UK operations of Concentrix Corporation, the global business process outsourcing division of SYNNEX.

In 2003, Ms Findlay founded Aspire Technology, a European specialist in providing customer renewal services through its proprietary RenewalsManager SaaS platform, which was acquired in November 2010 by Concentrix Corporation.

Prior to founding Aspire, she was a divisional director of business technology integrator Morse Plc where she was responsible for Morse’s entry into building a software services business.

Pierre Van Beneden joined the Company in as a non-executive director in March 2008.

He is the CEO of RSD, a Geneva-based provider of archiving and retrieval software for digital documents.

Prior to this he was Vice President EMEA for Adobe Systems Inc. and President of San Francisco-based Critical Path, a NASDAQ-listed company providing messaging and identity management solutions.

He also served in a variety of roles with Lotus Development Corporation before and after it was acquired by IBM.

Mr Van Beneden holds a Ph.D. in business management from Paris University and a Master's degree in the same from Paris Dauphine.