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OpenText Announces CEO to Assume Additional Role of Chief Technology Officer and Appointment of a New President
OpenText Announces CEO to Assume Additional Role of Chief Technology Officer and Appointme...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nOpenText Announces CEO to Assume Additional Role of Chief Technology Officer and Appointment of a New President\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOpenText Announces CEO to Assume Additional Role of Chief Technology Officer and Appointment of a New President\nCanada NewsWire\nWATERLOO, Ontario, Dec. 24, 2015\n\n\n\n- Mark J. Barrenechea assumes role of Chief Technology Officer in addition to Chief Executive Officer \n\n- Stephen Murphy appointed as President \n\n\n\nWATERLOO, Ontario, Dec. 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced the appointment of Stephen Murphy to President of Open Text Corporation.  Mark J. Barrenechea will continue to serve as OpenText's Chief Executive Officer and will also assume the role of Chief Technology Officer.\n\nAs President of OpenText, Mr. Murphy will have responsibility for all customer facing activity and will report to Mr. Barrenechea.  The appointment is effective January 4, 2016.\n\nMr. Murphy most recently served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for driving revenue and expanding margin for its North American Services. Prior to his role at Oracle, he held executive leadership positions at Sun Microsystems, Accenture and Procter & Gamble.  Further, Mr. Murphy received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from UC Davis and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University. \n\n\"Steve brings extraordinary talent to OpenText and I look forward to working with Steve for many years to come,\" said OpenText CEO Mark J. Barrenechea. \"With Steve now part of our Executive Leadership Team, I can focus more on OpenText strategy, M&A, customers and our next generation products.  Over the past four years, the team has dramatically improved the operations of the business, and I look forward to applying the same level of energy and results to the strategic aspects of our future.\"  \n\n\"Open...