People: Accelrys Inc (ACCL.O)
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Summary
| Name | Age | Since | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
Christopher van Ingen |
65 | 2011 | Independent Chairman of the Board |
Scipio Carnecchia |
49 | 2009 | President, Chief Executive Officer, Director |
Michel Piraino |
58 | 2010 | Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President |
Mathew Hahn |
51 | 2010 | Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President |
David Mersten |
47 | 2005 | Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary |
Mollie Hunter |
53 | 2012 | Senior Vice President - Global Sales & Services |
Leif Pedersen |
2012 | Senior Vice President - Marketing, Product Management and Corporate Development | |
Judith Ohrn Hicks |
48 | 2012 | Senior Vice President - Human Resources |
Anil Thakur |
48 | 2010 | Senior Vice President - Software Development |
Kenneth Coleman |
60 | 2011 | Independent Director |
Larry Ferguson |
62 | 2008 | Independent Director |
Timothy Harkness |
45 | 2010 | Independent Director |
Ricardo Levy |
67 | 2000 | Independent Director |
Jeffrey Rodek |
58 | 2007 | Independent Director |
Biographies
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
Christopher van Ingen |
Mr. Christopher van Ingen is Independent Chairman of the Board of Accelrys Inc. He has served as a director since July 2010. From March 2008 to June 2010, he served as a director of Symyx. He was President of the Bio-Analytical Measurement Group of Agilent Technologies, Inc., a bio-analytical and electronic measurement company, from 2001 to 2007. Prior to 2001, Mr. van Ingen was Vice President of Sales and Marketing of the Chemical Analysis Group of Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies. Mr. van Ingen currently serves as Chairman of the board of directors of Bruker Energy and Superconducting Technologies, Inc., a high-performance superconducting materials and devices company, and is a director of Promega Corporation, a provider of innovative life sciences solutions. Mr. van Ingen brings a sales and marketing experience to the Board, having held various positions with Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies. With over two decades of experience in leadership positions, he offers a broad understanding of the technology industry and has the skills necessary to be Chairman. |
Scipio Carnecchia |
Mr. Scipio M. Carnecchia is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Accelrys Inc., since June 2009. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Carnecchia served as President of Interwoven, Inc., a content management software company, which was acquired by Autonomy Corporation plc in January 2009. Prior to joining Interwoven, Mr. Carnecchia served as Vice President of Global Sales of Xoriant Corporation, a software product development company, from April 2000 to January 2001 and as Vice President of Sales and Services of SmartDB Corporation, a provider of data integration toolkits for systems integrators and IT organizations, from September 1996 to February 2000. |
Michel Piraino |
Mr. Michael A. Piraino is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Accelrys Inc., since July 2010. He previously served as Company's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from January 2010 to July 2010. Prior to joining Accelrys, he served as Chief Financial Officer of M2 Technology Partners, LLC, a private investment company focused on domestic and international acquisitions of software and services businesses, from May 2008 to June 2009. From April 2003 to May 2008, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Epicor Software Corporation. |
Mathew Hahn |
Dr. Mathew A. Hahn, Ph.D., is Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President of Accelrys Inc., since July 2010. Prior to that, he served as Company's Senior Vice President of Research and Development from 2009 to 2010, Company's Vice President of Research and Development, from 2008 to 2009, Company's Vice President of Platform Strategy and Technologies from 2006 to 2008, and Company's Vice President, Chief Science Officer from 2005 to 2006. From 2004 to 2005, Dr. Hahn served as Vice President, General Manager of SciTegic, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelrys that Dr. Hahn co-founded in 1999 and the Company acquired in 2005. Prior to founding SciTegic, Inc., Dr. Hahn served as Director of Development at Accelrys from 1989 to 1999. |
David Mersten |
Mr. David R. Mersten is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of Accelrys Inc., since 2005. Prior to joining Accelrys, from 2000 to 2005, Mr. Mersten served as Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary for Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, a company that designs hardware and software solutions for the communications and storage markets. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Mersten served as corporate counsel for Integrated Device Technology, Inc., a designer of semiconductors. |
Mollie Hunter |
Ms. Mollie Hunter is Senior Vice President - Global Sales & Services of Accelrys Inc., since January 2012. She previously served as Company's Vice President, Worldwide Presales & Professional Services from October 2010 to December 2011. Prior to joining Accelrys, Ms. Hunter was a Partner at Eventus Strategies, LLC, a strategic business consulting firm focused on business plan and sales strategy development and internal systems and operational support, from March 2008 to August 2011. From October 2006 to June 2007, she served as Chief Operating Officer of New Momentum, LLC, a provider of enterprise brand intelligence solutions, where she assisted in the development of the market strategy for a new product concept, managed development resources and prepared and presented the market strategy to investors and potential partners. From September 1997 to June 2005, Ms. Hunter held positions of increasing responsibility with Epicor Software Corporation, a global provider of enterprise business software solutions for midmarket-sized companies, most recently holding the positions of Senior Vice President of the manufacturing business unit and Vice President of Product Marketing. |
Leif Pedersen |
Mr. Leif Pedersen has been appointed as Senior Vice President - Marketing, Product Management and Corporate Development of Accelrys Inc., effective 01 October 2012. As a seasoned software industry executive, Pedersen brings more than 25 years of product and marketing experience, as well as a track record of building high-performance teams, to Accelrys. Most recently, Pedersen served as vice president of Siemens with global responsibility for multiple vertical markets, including automotive, pharmaceutical, aerospace, consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, and chemicals industries. Prior to Siemens' acquisition of UGS, Pedersen was vice president at UGS, where he managed the company's short- and long-term overall business strategy for eight vertical industries. He was part of a team that grew UGS into a global product lifecycle management (PLM) software solutions company. Prior to UGS, Pedersen, a native of Denmark, held executive leadership positions with Vignette Corp., Novell Inc., Computer Associates, and Oracle Corporation. |
Judith Ohrn Hicks |
Mrs. Judith Ohrn Hicks is Senior Vice President - Human Resources of Accelrys, Inc., since March 2012. She previously served as Company's Vice President, Human Resources since 1999. Mrs. Ohrn Hicks originally joined Accelrys in 1993 and has held a variety of human-resources-related positions during her tenure with Accelrys. Prior to 1993, she held positions with the specialty retail division of General Mills, Inc., a producer of packaged consumer foods, and Software Developers Corporation, a publicly traded software company that was acquired by Programmer’s Paradise, Inc., a publicly traded company, in June 1996. |
Anil Thakur |
Mr. Anil Thakur is Senior Vice President - Software Development of Accelrys Inc., since July 2010. Prior to the Merger, Mr. Thakur was Senior Vice President of Product Development of Symyx’s software division, having joined Symyx in 2008. Prior to joining Symyx, he was employed at Oracle Corporation between 1996 and 2008, most recently holding the position of Vice President of Server Technology, where he led the strategy, design, development and launch of the Software Configuration Manager, as well as Vice President of Service Engineering and Director of Oracle Outsourcing. |
Kenneth Coleman |
Mr. Kenneth L. Coleman Jr., is Independent Director of Accelrys Inc. He has served as a director since 2003 and previously served as Chairman and as lead independent director. Mr. Coleman is the founder of ITM Software Corporation, an enterprise software company for which he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 2001 to 2006. Previously, from 1987 until 2000, Mr. Coleman served in various senior executive positions, including Executive Vice President of Sales, Services and Marketing, at Silicon Graphics, Inc., a computer systems company. Prior to joining Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mr. Coleman was Vice President of Product Development at Activision, Inc. Mr. Coleman is a member of the board of directors of MIPS Technologies, Inc., a licensor of microprocessor architecture, of United Online, an Internet service provider, and of City National Bank, a commercial banking institution. |
Larry Ferguson |
Mr. Larry R. Ferguson is Independent Director of Accelrys Inc., since October 28, 2008. Mr. Ferguson is currently President of the Ferguson Group, a private equity investment and consulting firm which renders advisory services to information technology companies, and has held such position since founding the group in 1995. From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Ferguson served as Chief Executive Officer of First Consulting Group, a publicly traded provider of information technology services and products to health and life sciences organizations that was acquired by Computer Sciences Corporation in 2008. Mr. Ferguson previously served as President of Health Systems Group of American Express Information Services, a provider of high-volume information processing and communications services, from 1986 to 1992 and as President of Health Systems Group of First Data Corp., a payment processing company, from 1992 to 1995. From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Ferguson served as Chairman of the board of directors of Daou Systems, Inc., a publicly traded provider of consulting and management services to healthcare organizations, and from 1997 to 2002, he served as a member of the board of directors of Sunquest Information Systems, a publicly traded healthcare information systems company. He is currently a member of the board of directors of Hooper Holmes, Inc., a publicly traded provider of risk assessment services for the insurance industry. |
Timothy Harkness |
Mr. Timothy A. Harkness is Independent Director of Accelrys Inc., since July 1, 2010. He served as a director of Symyx Technologies, Inc. (“Symyx”) from March 2008 until the completion of the merger between the Company and Symyx. Mr. Harkness has also served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of ProteinSimple, a private life sciences tools company focused on improving protein research , since June 2008. From August 2007 through December 2007, Mr. Harkness served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Operations of Nektar Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company. From July 1998 through April 2007, Mr. Harkness served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Operations of Molecular Devices Corporation, an international life sciences tools company. He is a member of the board of directors of Freeslate, a private high-throughput research company and ProteinSimple. |
Ricardo Levy |
Dr. Ricardo B. Levy Ph.D., is Independent Director of Accelrys Inc., since 2000. From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Levy served as Lead Director of the board of directors of Renegy Holding, Inc., a renewable energy company, the successor company to Catalytica Energy Systems, Inc., an environmental emissions solutions provider, for which he served as Chairman since its inception in 1994 and as an interim President and Chief Executive Officer from June through December 2000. Mr. Levy previously served as a director and Chief Operating Officer of Catalytica, Inc., the parent company of Catalytica Energy Systems, Inc. and Catalytica Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from its founding in 1974 until 1991 and as its President and Chief Executive Officer from 1991 to 2000. Prior to 1974, Mr. Levy was a member of the Chemical Physics Research Team at Exxon Research and Engineering Company. Mr. Levy is a member of the board of directors of Stem Cells, Inc., a public company focused on the discovery and development of stem cell therapeutics, and of NovoDynamics, Inc., a private company focused on advanced image discovery. |
Jeffrey Rodek |
Mr. Jeffrey R. Rodek is Independent Director of Accelrys Inc. Mr. Rodek is currently a senior lecturer at the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. Mr. Rodek served as a part-time general partner and senior advisor with Accretive, LLC, a private equity firm, from July 2007 to December 2009 and as the Executive Chairman of the board of directors of Hyperion Solutions Corporation, from 2004 until its acquisition by Oracle Corporation in 2007. From 1999 through 2004, Mr. Rodek served as Hyperion’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining Hyperion, Mr. Rodek served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Ingram Micro. Mr. Rodek also serves on the Advisory Board of Resource Interactive, a digital marketing company located in Columbus, Ohio, and is a member of the Board of Directors of PTS Physicians LLC. and BriefLogic, private software and services companies. |
Basic Compensation
| Name | Fiscal Year Total |
|---|---|
Christopher van Ingen |
-- |
Scipio Carnecchia |
1,486,020 |
Michel Piraino |
746,735 |
Mathew Hahn |
493,956 |
David Mersten |
580,230 |
Mollie Hunter |
-- |
Leif Pedersen |
-- |
Judith Ohrn Hicks |
-- |
Anil Thakur |
724,864 |
Kenneth Coleman |
174,109 |
Larry Ferguson |
-- |
Timothy Harkness |
-- |
Ricardo Levy |
-- |
Jeffrey Rodek |
-- |
As Of 30 Dec 2011
Options Compensation
| Name | Options | Value |
|---|---|---|
Christopher van Ingen |
0 | 0 |
Scipio Carnecchia |
0 | 0 |
Michel Piraino |
0 | 0 |
Mathew Hahn |
150,000 | 319,500 |
David Mersten |
0 | 0 |
Mollie Hunter |
0 | 0 |
Leif Pedersen |
0 | 0 |
Judith Ohrn Hicks |
0 | 0 |
Anil Thakur |
0 | 0 |
Kenneth Coleman |
0 | 0 |
Larry Ferguson |
0 | 0 |
Timothy Harkness |
0 | 0 |
Ricardo Levy |
0 | 0 |
Jeffrey Rodek |
0 | 0 |
| Name | Shares Traded | Price |
|---|---|---|
HAHN MATHEW A |
50,000 | $9.69 |
THAKUR ANIL |
30,000 | $9.60 |
LEVY RICARDO B |
4,757 | $9.53 |
OHRN-HICKS JUDITH M |
7,701 | $8.72 |
OHRN-HICKS JUDITH M |
1,445 | $8.70 |
OHRN-HICKS JUDITH M |
3,100 | $8.70 |
OHRN-HICKS JUDITH M |
2,211 | $8.72 |
OHRN-HICKS JUDITH M |
100 | $8.71 |
OHRN-HICKS JUDITH M |
10,696 | $8.91 |
OHRN-HICKS JUDITH M |
9,694 | $8.85 |
HAHN MATHEW A |
10,000 | $8.60 |
PIRAINO MICHAEL ANTHONY |
11,600 | $9.02 |
PIRAINO MICHAEL ANTHONY |
400 | $9.05 |
MERSTEN DAVID R |
25,000 | $0.00 |
HAHN MATHEW A |
25,000 | $0.00 |
THAKUR ANIL |
25,000 | $0.00 |
JOHNSON TODD |
7,336 | $0.00 |
OHRN-HICKS JUDITH M |
4,673 | $6.99 |
OHRN-HICKS JUDITH M |
4,673 | $7.72 |
OHRN-HICKS JUDITH M |
25,505 | $7.69 |
OHRN-HICKS JUDITH M |
5,521 | $7.72 |
OHRN-HICKS JUDITH M |
5,521 | $6.99 |
COLEMAN KENNETH L |
10,000 | $7.97 |
COLEMAN KENNETH L |
9,515 | $7.97 |
COLEMAN KENNETH L |
10,000 | $5.24 |
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