ECM Briefs are short, timely news items from around the world of enterprise content management. The Open Text communications team pulls together reports from events, news about customers, partners and new products, ECM industry trends and other topics. While much of the content is related to Open Text solutions, we strive to provide a broader industry perspective, as well.

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About the ECM Briefs Editors

John Shackleton

John Shackleton is President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Open Text Corporation where he leads the senior management team and oversees the company's global operations.
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Bill Forquer

Bill Forquer is Executive Vice President, ECM Business Development for Open Text Corporation. Bill is responsible for overseeing strategy and operations for Open Text's emerging and strategic solutions groups, including its LegalKEY and legal solutions business, Web content management solutions through the RedDot Web Solutions Group, digital asset management solutions through the Artesia Digital Media Group, compliance solutions, and the company's FirstClass and Hummingbird Connectivity divisions.
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Chris Vassalotti

Chris Vassalotti is responsible for business development and solution initiatives for Open Text in the areas of Energy, Chemical, Utilities, and Engineering.
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Cheryl McKinnon

Cheryl McKinnon is Director, Collaborative Content Management for Open Text Corporation. Cheryl is responsible for go-to-market strategies for the core Livelink ECM Collaborative Document Management product suite. She works closely with marketing, sales and product specialists to research vertical market solutions and to expand market awareness of enterprise content management technologies and strategies.
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Jens Rabe

As Vice President, Microsoft Applications and Solutions Business, Jens leads Open Text's strategy to develop new solutions based on the Microsoft platform.
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Mohit Thawani

Mohit "Mo" Thawani, Business Development Manager of the Open Text Legal Solutions Group, is responsible for the strategy and operations of the Legal Solutions Group. Mo is a co-founder of LegalKEY Technologies and more recently, Senior Director of Product Management for the Hummingbird Legal Business Unit. Mo brings a wealth of expertise with more than 12years of experience helping law firms overcome their most pressing business challenges.
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Martin Sumner-Smith, Ph.D.

Martin Sumner-Smith, Ph.D. is Vice President, Customer Partnership Programs for Open Text Corporation. Martin is responsible for programs at Open Text that help customers achieve value from their ECM deployments and has championed the development of Open Text Online. Martin came to Open Text by a circuitous route from the pharmaceutical industry, which gave him the background to focus on customer needs.
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Patrick Barnert

Patrick Barnert is vice president of Open Text's SAP business. He leads Open Text's strategy to offer ECM solutions that integrate with and extend SAP solutions. Today, Open Text is the global leader in providing document management and archiving solutions for SAP, building on two decades of partnership between SAP and Open Text. Open Text's Livelink ECM Suite for use with SAP applications is a mature and well-established offering deployed in more than 2,500 SAP customer sites around the world.
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Peter Lipps

Peter Lipps is Vice President & General Manager, Enterprise Records Management Business, at Open Text Corporation, where he is responsible for overseeing the strategy and operations associated with Open Text's compliance and records management solutions.
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Robert Bettenhauser

Robert Bettenhauser is Director of Enterprise Applications for the Enterprise Solutions Group at Open Text where he is responsible for taking Open Text's enterprise applications to market.
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Serge Savchenko

Serge Savchenko is a business development professional with over 20 years experience in information technologies. As Director of Sales for Open Text's Genio Data Integration solution, he helps organizations build agile business models by decoupling business policies from the complexities of IT infrastructure.
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Therese Harris

Therese Harris, Program Manager for Life Sciences at Open Text, is responsible for vertical market applications, key industry partnerships, and marketing specific to Life Sciences. She has over 15 years experience in the enterprise software industry with special focuses on collaboration, communication and compliance solutions.
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Dave Schubmehl

David Schubmehl is the Vice-President of the Discovery Products Group at Open Text Corporation.
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Tom Walker

Currently Program Manager at Open Text for the Accounts Payable (AP) solution, Tom has over 15 years experience with SAP and over 10 years with process optimization. For the past 6 years at Open Text, Tom has assisted many Fortune 500 companies in the optimization and automation of their SAP AP processes.
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Damian Saccocio

Damian Saccocio is VP, Marketing and Product Management for Open Text’s Artesia Digital Media Group.
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Kimberly Edwards

Kimberly Edwards is Program Manager for Collaboration at Open Text where she is responsible for the business planning and go-to-market process around Open Text's collaboration tools. She works inbound with Product Management and Engineering to define the strategic product direction based on market research, customer feedback as well as overall company strategy.
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Hugh Ritchie

Hugh Ritchie is the Program Manager for Manufacturing and Energy sectors at Open Text.
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Stephen Ludlow

Stephen Ludlow is a Program Manager for eDiscovery Solutions at Open Text.
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