Leadership

Stephen is our Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Micro Focus board, positions he has held since 19 March 2018. Stephen joined Micro Focus in 2012, first serving as General Manager of the Product Group and Chief Marketing Officer, responsible for all software product and services offerings development, customer services, corporate marketing and strategy. In 2014, he was appointed as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, having responsibility for sales and marketing, product strategy, development and management, services and business operations.

Prior to Micro Focus, Stephen spent seven years at Dell, first building Dell’s Global Infrastructure Consulting Services organisation, and then leading its business in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Before Dell, Stephen had 17 years’ experience at IBM, latterly serving as Vice President, Communications Sector with responsibility for the entire telco, media, and utilities industry portfolio. During his IBM career, Stephen held a number of Global, EMEA and UK senior management roles with experience spanning software and services, storage, and enterprise systems.

Brian is our Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Micro Focus board, positions he has held since 21 February 2019. Prior to joining Micro Focus, Brian held a variety of senior management positions, including the role of Chief Financial Officer at TeleCity Group plc and most recently as Chief Financial Officer of Paysafe Group plc.

Also a restructuring specialist, Brian was the Interim CFO on the successful turnaround of MCI Worldcom EMEA. He is a non-executive director and the senior independent director at Robert Walters plc, where he has been chair of the audit committee since 2013. In addition, Brian serves as the Responsible Officer for Hockerill Anglo-European College, a leading international secondary school in Hertfordshire.

Brian was named as Business Week’s Finance Director of the Year in both 2013 and 2017, and the CBI’s FTSE 250 Finance Director of the Year in 2012. Brian holds a Law degree and qualified as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in London.

Susan is our Chief Human Resources Officer & SVP Business Operations. She is responsible for leading the HR organisation in addition to managing business operations across the organisation including driving strategic initiatives.

Susan joined Micro Focus from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Software in 2017 where she held the position of Vice President, Worldwide Indirect Sales. Previously Susan held the role of Vice President, Strategy & Planning, Chief of Staff to the EVP of HPE Software and prior to that was Vice President Worldwide Alliances & Channels, Big Data. Susan was recognised among CRN’s Power 100 Women of the Channel during her tenure.

Before joining HPE, Susan was Vice President at Oracle Corporation and earlier at Sun Microsystems, where she led regional and global services, indirect sales and functional organisations. At Sun, Susan previously led global legal teams with responsibility for sales, marketing, channel, supply chain and anti-trust matters. Susan graduated with a LL.B Honours degree and is a qualified attorney and mediator.

Genefa Murphy is the Chief Marketing Officer for Micro Focus. Under Genefa’s leadership, the marketing and enablement teams drive global and regional programs across all Micro Focus product groups, support, and services. They ensure that customers, partners, and employees understand the value that the Micro Focus portfolio can bring to Digital Transformation. Her team is also responsible for developing positive momentum with analysts and media, contributing thought leadership within the enterprise technology domain, and helping solidify critical relationships with customers, partners, and prospects.

Genefa has more than 10 years’ experience across various disciplines in the field of technology from consulting, to product management and strategy. Previously, Genefa was the Global Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Enablement. Genefa holds a BSc in Business IT and a PhD in New Technology Adoption.

Nick Wilson is the Worldwide President of Sales for Micro Focus. Nick leads our Sales, Services, Support and Customer Success teams worldwide and is responsible for delivering on our commitment to our customers’ success. Through his leadership the teams at Micro Focus are jointly focused on offering effective solutions that drive value, and delivering a positive, seamless, end-to-end customer experience.

Nick has spent more than 30 years in the IT industry, having held several senior leadership roles, including Managing Director for UK and South Pacific for HP/HPE, President & CEO of EMEA Outsourcing (the UK & Nordics business for CSC), Managing Director at UNISYS UK, and General Manager of IBM’s Global Services business in the UK, Ireland and South Africa. Through this broad experience across sales, services, support, education and software development, Nick understands the complexities and challenges companies face in the ever-changing and evolving business where technology is critical.

In addition to his corporate contributions, Nick is a passionate STEM ambassador and vocational education advocate, and has worked with various institutions to develop programs to support science, engineering and technology careers.

Chris Livesey is the Senior Vice President of Revenue Growth & Strategy, responsible for how we strengthen and innovate our engagement with customers, to enable their success and maximum return on investment.

Chris has over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, holding a number of executive leadership positions including sales, marketing, product development, and consulting. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Statistics and a Master’s degree in Software Engineering, both from the University of Glasgow.

Paul Rodgers is the Chief Operating Officer for Micro Focus and has a proven track record of success with pioneering board-level strategies that facilitate transformations across complex business landscapes. Paul supports the businesses by identifying areas for innovation and guiding strategic changes that improve efficiencies, reduce cost and deliver large-scale growth.

Prior to this role, Paul served as the Business Operations and Integration lead for Micro Focus, where he was responsible for overseeing the successful integrations resulting from the company's merger and acquisition activity. Paul joined Micro Focus in April 2008 as the Group HR Director, and prior to joining Micro Focus, Paul spent 17 years with IBM and four years as Managing Director of a successful Executive HR consultancy business with clients such as Dell, Unilever, Yahoo and Sainsbury's.

Jane has more than 25 years’ experience as a lawyer in the IT industry and software sector. She has worked with Micro Focus for over 20 years providing a wide range of commercial and corporate legal services, from leading the efforts through the 2005 IPO to driving the legal aspects of the group’s mergers, acquisitions and divestitures strategy including the acquisition of HPE Software and divestiture of SUSE. Jane leads a team of approximately 60 lawyers and other professionals worldwide, the majority of whom are focused directly on supporting the Company’s commercial teams and business.

Jane qualified as a Barrister and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1982. She has a BA (Hons) in Law, a postgraduate diploma in European Law from King's College, London, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Tom Goguen is currently the Chief Product Officer and General Manager of the IT Operations Management (ITOM) Product Group. Tom joined Micro Focus as part of the merger with the Software division of HPE. He joined HPE in 2016, and was responsible for developing and delivering the industry's broadest set of IT operations management solutions for traditional IT, private, public, and hybrid cloud environments, including data center automation, network operations management, IT service management automation, hybrid cloud management, and automated monitoring, analysis, and remediation for IT operations.

Tom has more than 20 years of experience in product-line management and executive roles spanning engineering, product management, and marketing functions at Sun Microsystems, Apple, and BlackBerry. When he was CEO of Newbay Software, Tom led the turnaround and successful divestiture of the white-label cloud services provider for mobile operators. Tom is a co-inventor on nine patents. He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Brunswick.

Raffi Margaliot leads the Application Delivery Management business unit within Micro Focus. Raffi has over a decade of experience driving business strategy, product development, and delivering innovative technology solutions that solve customer problems. He has held a number of general manager roles within HPE, including leading both the Enterprise Mobility and IT Management-as-a-Service business units.

Raffi joined HP in 2006 through the Mercury Interactive acquisition. At Mercury, he held a variety of R&D and product management roles and was a founding engineer for what is now the Application Lifecycle Management platform. Raffi holds both bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

John Delk is currently the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Security Product Group at Micro Focus. Prior to this role, he served as Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Product Officer. John joined Micro Focus in 2014 as part of the acquisition of the Attachmate Group where he had served as Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for NetIQ. Prior to that, he spent seven years in various leadership positions at Novell in product management, sales, and services.

John has over 34 years of experience in the IT industry working for numerous other companies holding roles including Managing Partner at BearingPoint/KPMG Consulting and a Vice President at EDS. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree from Furman University with a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Neil Fowler leads the Application Modernization and Connectivity (AMC) Product Group for Micro Focus. Neil joined Micro Focus in 1991 and played a key role in R&D as a technical architect in Enterprise Solutions. With significant experience of helping hundreds of customers deliver modernization projects he has been at the forefront of product architecture and strategy across COBOL, Mainframe Solutions, CORBA and Host Connectivity.

Over the past 25 years Neil has held a number of different leadership roles responsible for strategy, acquisition integration and product design and delivery. Prior to his current role, Neil was Vice President for Engineering in AMC. He has a degree in Physics and Computer Science from Brunel University.

Colin Mahony leads the Vertica Product Group for Micro Focus, spanning global GTM, Product Strategy, R&D, Professional Services and Support. Colin has led his team to deliver industry leading in-database machine learning capabilities and advanced analytics with the performance and scale needed to power the world’s most data driven enterprises. Colin is known for his industry thought leadership, technical expertise and business acumen.

In 2011, Colin joined HP through the Vertica acquisition and has since led the business. Prior to Vertica, Colin was a Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners and before that he worked at Lazard Technology Partners. Earlier in his career, Colin was a Senior Analyst at the Yankee Group, serving as an industry analyst and consultant covering databases, BI, middleware, application servers, and ERP systems. Colin earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in Economics with a minor in Computer Science from Georgetown University.

Scott Richards is the Vice President and General Manager of the Information Management & Governance (IM&G) product group at Micro Focus. Prior to this role, he served as the Vice President of Worldwide Engineering for the IM&G product group. Scott joined Micro Focus in 2014 as part of the acquisition of the Attachmate Group where he served as Senior Director of Engineering as well as in several other leadership roles.

Scott has over 25 years of experience in the high-tech industry working for both startups and large corporations including leadership roles at 3Com and VP of Product Development and Marketing at Senforce Technologies. Scott holds a master’s degree in International Management from Thunderbird School of International Management at Arizona State University and a bachelor’s degree from Utah State University with a major in Marketing and a minor in Japanese.

Suzanne is Company Secretary and Head of Assurance. She is a solicitor with over 30 years expertise in M&A, governance, compliance, risk and assurance. Previous positions held have been Group General Counsel at Wickes plc, Group General Counsel and Company Secretary at The Big Food Group plc, General Counsel and Company Secretary at Morse plc, General Counsel and Company Secretary at Parity Group plc and Compliance Partner at King Sturge LLP (now part of JLL). She is a member of The Law Society of England and Wales. Suzanne is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

Greg Lock joined Micro Focus as Non-Executive Chairman in Feb 2020. Greg established his footprint in the technology space with a 30-year career with the IBM Corporation, where he served as assistant to the Chairman, a member of the IBM Worldwide Management Council, Governor of the IBM Academy of Technology and Global General Manager for Industrial Sector, where he drove the P&L for all IBM business with Aerospace, Automotive, Oil and Gas, Pharmaceutical, Electronic and Electrical, Engineering and Process companies equating to total revenues of c. $12 Billion.

Since leaving IBM Greg, together with his wife Rosie established a charitable foundation aimed at supporting education in science and technology. His philanthropic work has continued and in 2016 he established the Lock Bursaries at Churchill aimed at supporting less financially advantaged state school pupils, male and female in equal number, to pursue STEM subjects at Churchill College.

Greg has held several board roles including, Executive Chairman of Orchestream Holdings from June 2002 until January 2003 when he successfully sold the Company. He was Chairman of SurfControl PLC from October 2003 till October 2007 and Chairman of Kofax, a NASDAQ listed Software Company from 2008 until May 2015. He has also been Chairman, Senior Independent Director of and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of UBM PLC. He was Deputy Chairman of Informa PLC From May 2018 until May 2019 and Chairman of Computacenter PLC from 2008 until May 2019.

Greg holds an MA in Natural Sciences from Churchill College and is a life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce.

Stephen is our Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Micro Focus board, positions he has held since 19 March 2018. Stephen joined Micro Focus in 2012, first serving as General Manager of the Product Group and Chief Marketing Officer, responsible for all software product and services offerings development, customer services, corporate marketing and strategy. In 2014, he was appointed as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, having responsibility for sales and marketing, product strategy, development and management, services and business operations.

Prior to Micro Focus, Stephen spent seven years at Dell, first building Dell’s Global Infrastructure Consulting Services organisation, and then leading its business in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Before Dell, Stephen had 17 years’ experience at IBM, latterly serving as Vice President, Communications Sector with responsibility for the entire telco, media, and utilities industry portfolio. During his IBM career, Stephen held a number of Global, EMEA and UK senior management roles with experience spanning software and services, storage, and enterprise systems.

Brian is our Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Micro Focus board, positions he has held since 21 February 2019. Prior to joining Micro Focus, Brian held a variety of senior management positions, including the role of Chief Financial Officer at TeleCity Group plc and most recently as Chief Financial Officer of Paysafe Group plc.

Also a restructuring specialist, Brian was the Interim CFO on the successful turnaround of MCI Worldcom EMEA. He is a non-executive director and the senior independent director at Robert Walters plc, where he has been chair of the audit committee since 2013. In addition, Brian serves as the Responsible Officer for Hockerill Anglo-European College, a leading international secondary school in Hertfordshire.

Brian was named as Business Week’s Finance Director of the Year in both 2013 and 2017, and the CBI’s FTSE 250 Finance Director of the Year in 2012. Brian holds a Law degree and qualified as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in London.

Karen is Chair of The Foundry, which specializes in developing software for the creative industries, and non-executive director at Intelliflo, a financial services software provider. Prior to her current responsibilities, she has held various roles at the board level since 2001 at a range of technology companies. Karen began her career at ICL before spending 20 years in Hewlett Packard, where she headed up worldwide sales and marketing. Karen holds a BA Joint Honors degree in European Studies, French, and Spanish from Bath University.

Richard is Chairman of Acora, an IT Services outsourcing company; Entanet International, a wholesale voice and data communications company; Sub 10 Systems, a designer and manufacturer of wireless ethernet bridges; and Miles 33, a publishing software company. He is also a non-executive director at Aon, the UK's largest insurance broker. He has spent the majority of his career within the IT industry. Previously, he was a Director at Data Sciences where he led its MBO from Thorn EMI in 1991 and then managed its successful sale to IBM in 1996. His final role at IBM was as General Manager for IBM Global Services Northern Europe where he was also a member of the IBM worldwide Senior Leadership Team. Since leaving IBM in 2005 he has acted as a non-executive director for several companies including Compel, Message Labs, Global Crossing, Morse, and Easynet. Richard qualified as a Chartered Accountant with EY.

Amanda is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Hiscox Ltd, a FTSE 250 business and specialist insurer with offices in 14 countries.

Amanda has more than 20 years of international HR experience in a variety of industries, including consumer goods, leisure, hospitality, and financial services. Prior to Hiscox, Amanda held a number of leadership roles with Mars, PepsiCo, and Whitbread plc. She has expertise in human resources, remuneration strategy, and managing organisations through periods of significant change.

Lawton is an investment banker and a highly experienced corporate director. She currently serves on the boards of Ciena Corporation, The Progressive Corporation and The Carlyle Group, and was previously a non-executive director at ARM plc and Thomson Reuters. Lawton worked at Goldman Sachs for over 23 years in investment banking, equities and asset management, and for more than a decade she led the equity capital markets team focused on technology companies. She was elected a Partner in 1994 and worked in the London and New York offices. From 2002-2005 Lawton was the Secretary (Chief Executive Officer) of the Royal Academy of the Arts in London, and has served as a trustee for a number of not-for-profit organizations and foundations, including the Goldman Sachs Foundation and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. She received her undergraduate degree in European History from Brown University and her MBA from the Darden School of the University of Virginia.

Robert is a board member at a small number of growth companies in the technology sector and an operating executive at Marlin Equity Partners. Robert previously served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of HP Software at Hewlett Packard Enterprises (“HPE”). During his tenure at Hewlett Packard, Robert was a member of HP’s Executive Council, as well as a Senior Vice President.

Prior to his work at HPE, Robert was a Senior Vice-President of Microsoft and President of Microsoft North America. He has held senior leadership positions at Sun Microsystems and IBM. Robert holds a Master’s degree with honours in physics and philosophy from Oxford University.

Sander joined the MicroFocus board in June 2020. He has had a 32 year career in Technology and Professional Services at Accenture, where he was a member of the Global Management Committee from 2006 to 2019. His last role in Accenture was Group Chief Executive of the Products Operating Group which serves clients in the Consumer Goods, Retail, Travel, Life Sciences and Industrial & Automotive industries. Before that he looked after Management Consulting, the Resources Operating Group and The Netherlands. He also served on the board of Avanade (an Accenture JV with Microsoft).

Sander is passionate about equality and belonging in the workplace, especially the LGBTI agenda. He has been recognized several times by the FT as one of the top 100 global LGBT+ Executives. He currently serves on the Board of Out & Equal (the world’s premier LGBT workplace equality organization).

He holds a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Suzanne is Company Secretary and Head of Assurance. She is a solicitor with over 30 years expertise in M&A, governance, compliance, risk and assurance. Previous positions held have been Group General Counsel at Wickes plc, Group General Counsel and Company Secretary at The Big Food Group plc, General Counsel and Company Secretary at Morse plc, General Counsel and Company Secretary at Parity Group plc and Compliance Partner at King Sturge LLP (now part of JLL). She is a member of The Law Society of England and Wales. Suzanne is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.