OpenText Appoints Fletcher Previn to Board of Directors
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OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX) has appointed Fletcher Previn to its board of directors. Previn currently serves as Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer of Cisco Systems. He brings over 20 years of IT experience, including 15 years at IBM where he served as Global Chief Information Officer leading a team of 12,000+ IT professionals. The appointment aligns with OpenText's board refreshment strategy, focusing on skill-set diversity and expertise matching the company's growth and margin expansion goals. Previn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Connecticut College and has extensive experience in IT modernization, software development, and agile transformation.
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- Strategic board appointment brings extensive IT leadership experience
- Addition of expertise in IT modernization and digital transformation
- Alignment with company's growth and margin expansion strategy
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"I am very pleased to welcome Fletcher to the OpenText Board," said Tom Jenkins, Chair of the Board of Directors. "He is a highly qualified executive with over 20 years of experience in IT with extensive expertise in guiding large organizations through significant shifts and in driving agile transformation and modern ways of working, IT modernization, software development, and delivering productivity tools. Fletcher's appointment reflects the Board's ongoing commitment to board refreshment and skill-set diversity, as well as further aligning the qualifications and expertise of our directors with our strategy and significant growth and margin expansion opportunities."
Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Previn spent 15 years at IBM, with his most recent role serving as their Global Chief Information Officer where he led a global team of more than 12,000 IT professionals. A systems engineer by training, Mr. Previn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from
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