People: Novell, Inc. (NOVL.O)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position
Crandall, Richard 66 2008 Non-Executive Chairman of the Board
Hovsepian, Ronald 48 2006 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Russell, Dana 48 2007 Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President
Dragoon, John 49 2006 Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer
Semel, Scott 53 2008 Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
Poole, Russell 55 2009 Senior Vice President - Human Resources
O'Keefe, Colleen 53 2010 Senior Vice President, General Manager - Collaboration Solutions and Global Services
Ebzery, James 50 2010 Senior Vice President, General Manager - Security, Management and Operating Platforms
Wagner, Joseph 49 2009 Senior Vice President, General Manager - Global Alliances
Nolan, Richard 68 1998 Director
Poduska, John 71 2001 Director
Corrado, Fred 68 2002 Director
Plaskett, Thomas 65 2008 Director
Aiello, Albert 66 2003 Director
Malone, Claudine 73 2003 Director
White, Kathy 59 2003 Director
Jones, Patrick 64 2007 Director
Greenfield, Gary 54 2009 Director
Hamilton, Judith 64 2009 Director
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Biographies

Name Description
Crandall, Richard Mr. Richard L. Crandall is Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Novell Inc. Mr. Crandall is a founding Managing Director of Arbor Partners, a high technology venture capital firm, a position he has held since November 1997. Mr. Crandall also serves as the Chairman of the Enterprise Software Roundtable, which he founded in July 1994, an organization of the senior corporate leadership of more than 35 of the largest software companies. Since November 2006, Mr. Crandall has served as Chairman of Pelstar LLC, a manufacturer of medical weighing and measurement devices. Since May 2005, Mr. Crandall has served as Managing Partner of Alpine Capital Partners, LLC, a real estate developer. Mr. Crandall served as the Chairman of Giga Information Systems (“Giga”), an IT research and advisory firm, from July 2002 until February 2003, and was a board member of and a special advisor to Giga from its founding in April 1996 until February 2003. Prior to that, Mr. Crandall was a founder of Comshare, Inc., a decision support software company, and served as its Chief Executive Officer from April 1970 until April 1994 and its Chairman from April 1994 until April 1997. Mr. Crandall is the technology advisor to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and is also a director of Diebold, Inc. and the Dreman/Claymore Dividend & Income Fund, a management investment company.
Hovsepian, Ronald Mr. Ronald W. Hovsepian serves as President and Chief Executive Officer and Director of Novell Inc since June 2006. Mr. Hovsepian served as the President and Chief Operating Officer from October 2005 to June 2006. From May 2005 to November 2005, Mr. Hovsepian served as Executive Vice President and President, Worldwide Field Operations. Mr. Hovsepian joined the company in June 2003 as President, Novell North America. Before joining the company, Mr. Hovsepian was a Managing Director with Bear Stearns Asset Management, a technology venture capital fund, from February 2002 to December 2002. From March 2000 to February 2002, Mr. Hovsepian served as Managing Director for Internet Capital Group, a venture capital firm. Prior to that, Mr. Hovsepian served in a number of executive positions with IBM over an approximate 17-year period. Mr. Hovsepian is also the non-employee chairman of the Board of Directors of Ann Taylor Corporation.
Russell, Dana Mr. Dana C. Russell has served as Novell’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since February 2007. Prior to that, Mr. Russell served as the Vice President and Interim Chief Financial Officer from June 2006 to February 2007, and as Vice President of Finance from March 2000 to June 2006. Mr. Russell served as the Corporate Controller from June 2003 to June 2006, and was also the Treasurer from December 2005 to June 2006. Mr. Russell joined the company in 1994. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Russell worked at Price Waterhouse in Salt Lake City. Mr. Russell is a CPA licensed in the State of Utah.
Dragoon, John Mr. John K. Dragoon serves as the Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Novell Inc, since March 2006. Mr. Dragoon joined the company in October 2003 as Vice President, Worldwide Field Marketing. Prior to joining the company, from April 2002 to September 2003, Mr. Dragoon was the senior vice president of marketing and product management at Art Technology Group, a provider of Internet commerce, service, and marketing solutions and from April 2001 to March 2003 served as vice president, operations, of Internet Capital Group, a venture capital firm. Prior to his tenure at Internet Capital Group, Mr. Dragoon served in a number of sales and marketing positions at IBM from 1984 to 2000.
Semel, Scott Mr. Scott N. Semel joined the Novell Inc in September 2008 as the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Semel was Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Tele Atlas N.V., a Dutch Euronext company, from late 2006 to June 2008. Mr. Semel also engaged in the private practice of law with GTC Law Group LLC, a boutique law firm which specializes in IP strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and business and technology transactions, during 2006. Mr. Semel served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary to Ascential Software Corporation, a NASDAQ listed company, from 2001 through April 2005, when Ascential was sold to IBM, after which Mr. Semel served as Associate General Counsel-Legal Transition Executive at IBM. Prior to that, he served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary to NaviSite, Inc., a NASDAQ listed company. Prior to that, he also served as general counsel to other public and private companies after engaging in the private practice of law.
Poole, Russell Mr. Russell C. Poole has been appointed as Senior Vice President, Human Resources of Novell, Inc in November 2009. Prior to that, Mr. Poole, served as the Vice President – Senior HR Partner in the Human Resources organization, from September 2007 to November 2009, providing valuable direction and leadership within Human Resources as well as partnering with the Sales and Services organizations. Mr. Poole served as the Vice President – Law – People from November 2002 to September 2007. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Poole had also held various supervisory and management positions over a 20-year period in which he evaluated, managed, and resolved human resource, employment, benefit and transactional issues.
O'Keefe, Colleen Ms. Colleen A. O'Keefe joined Novell Inc in December 2006 as Senior Vice President of Services. Effective January 1, 2010, Ms. O’Keefe will become Senior Vice President and General Manager, Collaboration Solutions and Global Services. Prior to joining the company, from September 2002 to November 2006, Ms. O’Keefe held several key leadership positions at NCR Corporation in the Payment Solutions and Worldwide Services divisions. From September 1999 to March 2002, she served as senior vice president, Customer Services, at Global Crossing. In addition, Ms. O’Keefe served in a number of positions in the telecommunications industry, including 18 years at Southern New England Telephone and two years at AT&T.
Ebzery, James Mr. James P. Ebzery serves as Senior Vice President, General Manager - Security, Management and Operating Platforms of Novell Inc. He was appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager, Security, Management and Operating Platforms in December 2009, effective January 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Ebzery served as the Senior Vice President & General Manager, Identity & Security Management business unit, from May 2007 to December 2009. Before joining the company, Mr. Ebzery was President of the Viisage Division at L-1 Identity Solutions, a leading provider of advanced technology identity solutions, from January 2006 to May 2007. Mr. Ebzery was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Viisage, from November 2002 to January 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Ebzery served as vice president of operations for Internet Capital Group, a venture capital firm, from April 2000 to February 2002. In addition, Mr. Ebzery spent approximately 17 years at IBM in various sales, marketing, and general management roles.
Wagner, Joseph Mr. Joseph H. Wagner was appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Alliances in December 2009. Since 2005, Mr. Wagner served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Systems and Resource Management Business Unit. Previously Mr. Wagner was the Vice President of Global Operations responsible for the global field strategy, structure, incentives and productivity, customer operations, and the global partner organization. Mr. Wagner joined the company in August 2003 as Vice President of North America Operations where he led the roll-out of the North America and global field model now in place. Before joining the company, Mr. Wagner was Vice President of Transportation Solutions for Manhattan Associates and was the Sr. Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at Logistics.com prior to their acquisition by Manhattan. Additionally, Mr. Wagner has held numerous sales, marketing and operational executive positions over a 20-year high technology career at Unitech Systems, Quantra Corporation and IBM.
Nolan, Richard Mr. Richard L. Nolan is Director of Novell Inc. He is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Management of Technology, emeritus, Harvard Business School, a professorship he was awarded in September 1991. Mr. Nolan has been the Philip M. Condit Professor of Business Administration at the University of Washington since September 2004. Mr. Nolan served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nolan, Norton and Company, an information technology management consulting company, from 1977 until the company was acquired by KPMG LLP in 1987. Mr. Nolan then served as Chairman of Nolan, Norton and Company and a Partner of KPMG from 1987 to 1991. Mr. Nolan is also a director of Loctronix Company.
Poduska, John Dr. John W. Poduska, Sr. is Director of Novell Inc. He was the Chairman of Advanced Visual Systems, Inc., a provider of visualization software, from January 1992 to December 2001. From December 1989 until December 1991, Dr. Poduska was President and Chief Executive Officer of Stardent Computer, Inc., a computer manufacturer. From December 1985 until December 1989, Dr. Poduska served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Stellar Computer, Inc., which he founded, a computer manufacturer and the predecessor of Stardent Computer, Inc. Prior to founding Stellar Computer, Inc., Dr. Poduska founded Apollo Computer Inc. and Prime Computer Inc. Dr. Poduska is also a director of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Safeguard Scientifics, Inc.
Corrado, Fred Mr. Fred Corrado is Director of Novell Inc. He served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Financial Officer of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc., a food retailer, from October 1992 until February 2002. Since May 2005, Mr. Corrado has been a member of the advisory board of Approva Corporation, a software company. Mr. Corrado is also a director of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
Plaskett, Thomas Mr. Thomas G. Plaskett is Director of Novell Inc. He has served as Chairman of Fox Run Capital Associates, a private merchant banking and consulting firm focusing on advisory and consulting services for emerging companies, from October 1991 to the present. Additionally, Mr. Plaskett served as the Chairman of Probex Corporation, an energy technology company, from November 1999 until December 2000 and as its President and CEO from November 1999 to August 2000. Mr. Plaskett served as Vice Chairman of Legend Airlines, Inc. from June 1997 until February 2001 and as its Executive Vice President from September 1999 to February 2001. Mr. Plaskett also served as the Chairman of Greyhound Lines, Inc. from March 1995 until March 1999. Mr. Plaskett is also a director of Alcon, Inc., RadioShack Corporation and Signet Jewelers, Ltd., and is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Platinum Research Organization, Inc.
Aiello, Albert Mr. Albert Aiello is Director of Novell Inc. He is Managing Director of Albert Aiello & Associates, a strategic technology management consulting company he founded in February 2003. Since January 2007, Mr. Aiello has been a Managing Director and CIO of Colt Telecommunications. Prior to that, Mr. Aiello served as Global Chief Information Officer of Lend Lease Corporation, a financial and construction management company, from January 1998 to December 2002, and as a member of its board of directors from May 1998 to December 2002. Mr. Aiello was the Chief Information Officer for Fidelity Investments from April 1990 to December 1997. Mr. Aiello was also Chairman of the Board of the Software Productivity Consortium from December 1999 to December 2000. Mr. Aiello has also served as a member of the board of directors of CoolSavings, Inc.
Malone, Claudine Ms. Claudine B. Malone is Director of Novell Inc. She has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Financial and Management Consulting Inc., a consulting firm, since 1984. Ms. Malone served as a visiting professor at the Colgate-Darden Business School of the University of Virginia from 1984 to 1987, an adjunct professor of the School of Business Administration at Georgetown University from 1982 to 1984, and an assistant and associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration from 1972 to 1981. Ms. Malone also serves on the boards of Aviva Life Insurance Company and Apollo Investment Corporation.
White, Kathy Ms. Kathy Brittain White is Director of Novell Inc. She founded Rural Sourcing, Inc., an organization focused on developing information technology employment in rural communities, and served as President from 2004 until the company was acquired in 2008. In 2002, Ms. White founded the Horizon Institute of Technology, a foundation supporting technology outreach initiatives in the Arkansas delta. Ms. White served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Cardinal Health, Inc., a provider of medical products and services, from February 1999 until March 2003. Prior to that, Ms. White served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer with Allegiance Healthcare, Inc., a provider of medical products and services, from 1996 until its acquisition by Cardinal in February 1999. Ms. White was an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro for ten years. Ms. White is also a director of Mattel, Inc.
Jones, Patrick Mr. Patrick S. Jones is Director of Novell Inc. He has been a private investor since March 2001. From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Jones was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Gemplus International S.A., a provider of solutions empowered by smart cards. From 1992 to 1998, Mr. Jones was Vice President Finance, Corporate Controller for Intel Corporation. Prior to that, he served as Chief Financial Officer of LSI Logic. Mr. Jones is also a director of Openwave Systems, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation.
Greenfield, Gary Mr. Gary G. Greenfield is Director of Novell, Inc. Mr. Greenfield has held multiple executive level positions at technology organizations and currently serves as Chairman and CEO of Avid Technology, Inc. Prior to joining Avid, he served as CEO of GXS, Inc. and during the same period, also served as an Operating Partner with Francisco Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm. Previously, Mr. Greenfield served as CEO of Peregrine Systems and President and CEO of Merant PLC. Mr. Greenfield is also a Director of Vocus, Inc.
Hamilton, Judith Ms. Judith H. Hamilton is Director of Novell, Inc. Ms. Hamilton currently serves on the board of directors of R.R Donnelley & Sons as well as the Wildlife Conservation Society. She was previously a Director of Artistic Media Partners, Inc., Markettools, Inc. and the National Parks Foundation. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Hamilton was President and CEO of Classroom Connect, Inc. as well as FirstFloor Software. Ms. Hamilton was also CEO of Dataquest, the market research firm, which was acquired by Gartner, Inc. in 1995.

Insider Trading

Name Shares Traded Price
WAGNER JOSEPH H 110 $0.00
DRAGOON JOHN 3,939 $4.57
MALONE CLAUDINE B 258 $0.00
WAGNER JOSEPH H 438 $4.57
DRAGOON JOHN 985 $0.00
PLASKETT THOMAS G 20,000 $3.34
PLASKETT THOMAS G 16,729 $4.45
PLASKETT THOMAS G 16,729 $4.45
PLASKETT THOMAS G 25,000 $2.75
O KEEFE COLLEEN A 21,462 $0.00
DRAGOON JOHN 10,480 $0.00
DRAGOON JOHN 1,806 $4.09
JAFFE JEFFREY M 5,916 $4.09
HOVSEPIAN RONALD W 53,764 $4.09
RUSSELL DANA C 10,904 $4.09
EBZERY JAMES P 25,754 $0.00
DRAGOON JOHN 21,462 $0.00
WAGNER JOSEPH H 4,437 $4.09
HOVSEPIAN RONALD W 81,502 $0.00
RUSSELL DANA C 16,301 $0.00
JAFFE JEFFREY M 8,178 $4.09
O KEEFE COLLEEN A 3,572 $4.09
DRAGOON JOHN 5,688 $0.00
WAGNER JOSEPH H 8,178 $4.09
HOVSEPIAN RONALD W 128,776 $0.00
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