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Executive Board
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Global Leadership
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Board of Directors
Debra McCowan
Chief Human Resources Officer
Fred Brady
Senior VP Strategic Initiatives
Alex LeClerc
President, Poka
Goiuri Hernandez
Global Commercial Director
Janice Cabaltica
Senior Vice President, Head of Global Delivery
Jesper Alwall
General Counsel
Johan Made
Chief Executive Officer, IFS Ultimo
Kevin Price
Global Head of Enterprise Asset Management
Laerke Kjaerulff
Chief Operating Officer, Research & Development
Mary Lyke
Chief Revenue Officer, Energy & Resources
Matt Smith
Chief Architect
Merlin Knott
President, Enterprise Service Management
Preeti Saini
Senior Vice President, Global Marketing
Ranil Rajapakse
Senior Vice President, Offshore Operations
Scott Helmer
President, Aerospace & Defence
Scott Lockhart
President, Energy & Resources
Thilanka Jayathilake
Human Resources, Offshore Operations
Darren Roos
CHAIR OF THE BOARD
Principal occupation: Directorships and advisor in Enterprise Software businesses
Other assignments: Chairman of Thinkproject; board member of Sitecore; co-founder of innerwings.org.
Previous assignments: Former CEO of IFS and has held a number of senior positions within SAP, including President of their global ERP Cloud business. Has also worked as President, International for Software AG before joining the Group Executive Board.
Born: 1974. Elected: 2024
Jacqueline de Rojas CBE
BOARD DIRECTOR
Principal occupation: Board Member responsible for ESG at IFS & portfolio Non Exec Director: Board Member & President Emeritus of techUK, Chair at Bletchley Park and advocate for inclusion.
Other assignments: Non-Executive Director at Rightmove plc & FDM Group plc and Mentor at Merryck & Co Ltd.
Previous assignments and work experience: A 30 year career in enterprise software having held senior leadership positions in global tech businesses, including: Citrix, CA Technologies, McAfee, Novell and Business Objects.
Education: Dual degree in European Business at Middlesex University & Fachhochschule Reutlingen, EIC Non-Violent Communication, PCIC Henley Business School.
Born: 1962. Elected: 2021.
Johannes Reichel
BOARD DIRECTOR
Principal occupation: Partner at EQT Partners
Other assignments: Deputy board director of SUSE and Acumatica.
Previous assignments and work experience: Deutsche Bank. Deputy board director of Automic Software, CBR Fashion Group, and Lima Corporate.
Education: B.Sc in Business Administration and Economics and MBA from the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.
Born: 1981. Elected: 2016.
Hanna Jacobsson
BOARD DIRECTOR
Principal occupation: Directorships
Other assignments: Member of the Board at Skandia, Tink and DBT
Previous assignments and work experience: Chief Risk Officer at Klarna, Group CFO for Life & Pensions at Nordea, Deputy CFO at Skandia Norden, Actuary Consultant.
Education: Masters degree in Mathematical Statistics from Stockholm University.
Born: 1981. Elected: 2021.
Nic Humphries
BOARD DIRECTOR
Principal occupation: Senior Partner and Executive Chairman of Hg
Other assignments: Nic is currently a Director on the boards of Argus Media, Benevity, Insightsoftware, IRIS and Visma.
Education: Nic holds a first class degree in Electronic Engineering and was an IEEE and National Engineering Council scholar.
Born: 1967. Elected:2022.
Naveen Wadhera
BOARD DIRECTOR
Principal occupation: Managing Director at TA Associates
Other assignments: Board representation at Compusoft, DOCUnordic, Ideal Cures, Interswitch, Priority Software, RateGain, RLDatix
Previous assignments and work experience: Co-founded TA’s European and Asian efforts; currently co-head of TA's Europe Technology Group. Previous roles at Goldman Sachs, Accretive LLC, and Broadview International
Education: BSc in System Engineering from University of Pennsylvania, MBA from Wharton School of Business.
Elected: 2020.
Craig Conway
BOARD DIRECTOR
Principal occupation: Directorships
Other assignments: Board director of Salesforce, Nutanix, and Sitecore.
Previous assignments and work experience: CEO of Peoplesoft, One Touch Systems, and TGV Software. Executive Chairman of Guidewire and Achievers. Board director of Pegasystems, AMD, Unisys, Success Factors, and others. Executive Vice President at Oracle Corporation.
Born: 1954. Elected: 2017.
Martina Wallenberg
BOARD OBSERVER
Principal occupation: Head of Open Banking and Cloud Change Lead at SEB
Other assignments: Board member of Ready Digital AB, Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation and Jacob Wallenberg Foundation, Owner of Restaurant Hasselbo in Stockholm
Previous assignments: Liquidity Controller for Daily Liquidity Coverage Ratio at SEB, Audit assistant at PwC
Education: Bachelor of Economics with an Emphasis on Business from University of Colorado – Boulder
Born: 1989. Elected: 2021
John Walsh
BOARD DIRECTOR
Principal occupation: Accenture’s Chief Strategic Accounts and Global Sales Officer.
Previous assignments and work experience: 35 year career at Accenture that included running, as Group CEO, Accenture’s Communications, Media & Technology (CMT) business. Previous non-exec director appointments at Adchemy (acquired by Walmart), Vlocity (acquired by Salesforce) and Churchill Club (a prominent Silicon Valley non-for-profit).
Education: Executive Management Program at IMD, and a degree from Iowa State University.
Born: 1964. Elected: 2022.
