Leadership

From September 2004 to November 2008, he was the Global Head of Technology and Operations for Goldman Sachs and from October 2001 to October 2007, he was the Chief Information Officer of Goldman Sachs. He was a director of EMC from January 2009 until Dell acquired EMC in October 2016. He is currently a director or GTY Technology Holding Inc. and an Bridge Growth Partners advisory board member.

Gauthier has over 25 years of business and management experience, having served most recently as Executive Vice President and CFO of Telesystem International Wireless Inc., until it was sold to Vodafone in 2005.

Prior to his 12 years at TIW, Gauthier held senior management positions at L’Oréal Canada and Ernst & Whinney. He is also a director of Averna Technologies and Quantis International, and a former director of wireless carriers MobiFon, Oskar Mobil and Enlaces RadioFonicos.

Gauthier holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from HEC Montreal and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and has been a member of the Ordre des Comptables Agréés du Québec since 1984.

Terry has either founded or funded over 80 companies since 1972 including Newbridge Networks, a company he founded in 1986 and which became a leader in the worldwide data networking industry.

In 1972, before launching Newbridge, Terry co-founded Mitel, a world leader in the design and manufacture of enterprise communications solutions. Wesley Clover now has interests in a broad range of next-generation technology companies, real estate, hotels and resorts.

In addition to being the Chairman of Wesley Clover, Terry is also Chairman or Director of a number of private and publicly traded companies.

Terry holds an honours degree in electronics from the University of Wales and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 1994, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and in the 2001 Queen’s Birthday Honours, he was awarded a Knighthood. In 2011, he was appointed Patron of the European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute.

In that capacity Perna she was responsible for a multi-billion dollar business focused on delivering and servicing products to help businesses world-wide manage their information assets including database management, content and records management, information integration, and business intelligence software.

Upon her retirement from IBM following more than 30 years with the company, Perna has held board positions at a number of software companies in the US and Canada, and is a member of Bridge Growth Partners’ Technology Advisory Board. She is currently a Director of Cloudmark and previously served on the Board of Directors of JDA Software, Deltek, Cognos, Flexera Software, and Varicent Software. Perna is a member of the Foundation Board of Directors at the State University of New York at Oneonta, and is also the Founder of the Perna-Rose Foundation for Hope. Perna has a B.S. in mathematics and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the State University of New York at Oneonta.

From 2006 to 2015, he served as CTO at Vodafone Group, where he was responsible for the company’s technology strategy and led its network, IT and product development operations. Mr. Pusey served on the Vodafone board from 2009 to 2015, during which he represented the board within the Verizon Wireless partnership. Prior to joining Vodafone, he held various positions at Nortel Networks Inc. including President in EMEA where he was responsible for all sales, marketing and customer operations within the region, and also spent several years with British Telecom.

He is a Bridge Growth Partners senior advisor and currently serves on the boards of directors at Accedian and Solace, both of which are portfolio companies of Bridge Growth Partners. In addition, Mr. Pusey serves on the board at Centrica, FireEye and Global Logic, is a Senior Board Advisor at Telatrix, and has also served on numerous telecom and IT advisory panels.

Mr. Pusey attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and holds certifications from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Haas Technical Education Center (HTEC) with distinction.

Les is a PROS (NYSE: PRO) Board Member. He brings to the board a broad range of software experience from some of the world’s leading technology organizations.

Rechan was previously President and CEO of Halogen Software (TSX: HGN), from July 2015 until Halogen merged with Saba Software in May 2017. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Halogen was an organically built cloud-based talent management suite that reinforces and drives higher performance across all talent programs, from recruiting and performance management, to learning and development, succession planning and compensation.

Rechan previously served as General Manager of IBM’s multi billion dollar Business Analytics Division. He retired from IBM in 2014 after 30 years in the enterprise technology solutions industry.

He has also served as Chief Operating Officer of Cognos prior to its acquisition by IBM in 2008, and has held global executive leadership roles with Oracle, Siebel Systems, Cadence Design Systems and Onyx Software. Rechan currently serves as a board advisor to Cognitive Scale, an industry cognitive cloud solutions company, and Jasci, a modern warehouse management and supply chain cloud solutions company. Les is also and Executive Fellow at Mistral Venture Partners and a Venture Partner at The Entrepreneurs Fund.

He earned a master’s degree in management from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and B.A. in organizational behavior and management from Brown University.