COUNCIL TRUSTEES
Mr. Peter Gyenes
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ascential Software Corporation
Peter Gyenes has four decades of experience in global technical, sales, marketing, and general management positions within the software and computer systems industries. He is currently on the Board of Directors at Lawson, a global provider of Software as a Service, and the non-executive chairman of Sophos plc, a global security software company. He is an active investor and board member focusing on technology market opportunities. Mr. Gyenes also serves on the board of Pegasystems Inc., Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), a provider of data warehouse appliances and VistaPrint Limited (Nasdaq: VPRT), a business marketing company, as well as a number of privately held technology companies, and is a trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. He served as Chairman and CEO of Ascential Software (Nasdaq: ASCL), as well as of its predecessor companies VMark Software, Ardent Software and Informix, and led its growth into the data integration market leader, from 1996 until it was acquired by IBM in 2005. Previously, Mr. Gyenes served as President and CEO of Racal InterLan, Inc., and in executive positions at Data General Corporation, Encore Computer Corporation and Prime Computer, Inc. Earlier in his career, he held sales and technical positions at Xerox Data Systems and IBM. He is a graduate of Columbia University where he received both his B.A. in mathematics and his M.B.A. degree. Mr. Gyenes was awarded the 2005 New England Region Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in Software.
