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Executive Management Team

Kofax is managed by a team of individuals with extensive experience in the Information Technology industry. The Executive Management Team is responsible for the definition, development and execution of the strategy.

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Reynolds C. Bish - Chief Executive Officer

Reynolds C. Bish was appointed as Chief Executive Officer and a member of Kofax’s Board of Directors on November 5, 2007. Reynolds has been active in enterprise software markets for more than 20 years. In 1989, he co-founded Captiva Software Corporation, which became a leading provider of input management solutions and a NASDAQ listed company (CPTV). He served as Captiva’s President and CEO until its acquisition by EMC Corporation in December 2005. He then served as Vice President of EMC’s Enterprise Software Group until June 2006 when he resigned to take a sabbatical. Prior to Captiva, Reynolds was President and CEO of Unibase Systems, Inc., the first company to provide data entry systems on industry standard, open platforms. He has served on the Board of Directors of many industry organisations, including AeA, AIIM and TAWPI and in 2003 was named Ernst & Young’s Software Entrepreneur of the Year for the San Diego area. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Pennsylvania State University.

 

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James Arnold, Jr. - Chief Financial Officer

James Arnold, Jr. was appointed as Chief Financial Officer and a member of Kofax’s Board of Directors on June 15, 2010. He has almost 30 years of executive financial management experience. Most recently, he was with Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, where he was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from September 2004 to August 2008, and then a consultant to September 2009. From 2003 to 2004, James was Vice President and Corporate Controller at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. From 1997 to 2003, he held several senior financial management roles at Informix Software, Inc., including Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and from 1995 to 1997, he served as Corporate Controller at Centura Software Corporation. James began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Delta State University and a Master of Business Administration from Loyola University.

 

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Howard Dratler - Executive Vice President of Field Operations

Howard Dratler is Executive Vice President of Field Operations. He is responsible for Kofax’s customer-facing functions on a global basis, including all sales, pre-sales, channel management, business development, sales enablement, professional services, maintenance services and sales operations activities. Prior to Kofax, Howard was CEO of Panzura, an early stage cloud-based storage service provider. Previously he was the CEO of Anacomp, a publicly listed company and leading global provider of SaaS based document management services and prior to that he was EVP of Worldwide Field Operations at EMC/Captiva.

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Martyn Christian - Chief Marketing Officer

Martyn Christian is Chief Marketing Officer. He is responsible for all marketing initiatives, including brand, product, industry and field marketing functions. Martyn has more than 25 years of marketing and general management experience within the software industry. Prior to joining Kofax, he served as Director of Marketing Programs (UK & Ireland) and Vice President of ECM Marketing at IBM. Prior to that, he was Chief Marketing Officer at FileNet Corporation, where he spent 18 years in a wide range of marketing and sales roles in Europe and the U.S. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Studies from Coventry University, is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and is a Fellow and former Chair of the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM).

 

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Anthony Macciola - Chief Technology Officer

Anthony Macciola is Chief Technology Officer, a role he has held since 2007. Anthony has more than 26 years of experience in the document imaging industry and has extensive experience in the areas of software, hardware and algorithm development and holds several patents. Anthony has been with Kofax since 1990, except for a brief period from 2000 – 2002 when he was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for Lantronix, Inc., a company focused on the network enabling market. Prior to becoming Kofax's CTO, Anthony held several senior level positions with Kofax, including EVP of Products and SVP of Marketing and Engineering. Prior to Kofax, Anthony was with Xionics. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Management Information Systems from California State University, Fullerton.

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Bradford Weller - Executive Vice President of Legal Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary

Bradford Weller is Executive Vice President of Legal Affairs, General Counsel and Company Secretary. Brad has had a successful career both working as an attorney at a law firm and as an in house attorney at a number of publicly held technology companies, including Captiva Software Corporation, where he worked for then CEO Reynolds C. Bish as General Counsel, Vice President of Legal Affairs and Secretary. Brad has complete responsibility for the management of all of our in-house attorneys, our use of any and all external law firms and our corporate Secretary function. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stanford University and a Juris Doctor from Hastings College of the Law.

 

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Jim Nicol - Executive Vice President of Products

Jim Nicol is Executive Vice President of Products at Kofax. He served as Vice President and General Manager of the Captiva Product Business Unit at EMC, where he was responsible for product strategy, product management and marketing, engineering, quality assurance, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic initiatives. Prior to Captiva, Jim led engineering, quality assurance and product management at FutureTrade, Inc. He also served as Vice President of Development & Technical Operations at Previo and held several senior management positions at IBM and Lotus Development Corporation, where he assisted the CEO with the merger of specific IBM and Lotus products. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Master of Science from California State University, Chico.

 

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Lynne Scheid - Senior Vice President of Human Resources

Lynne Scheid is Senior Vice President of Human Resources. She has been with Kofax since 1989. Before joining Kofax, she worked in Human Resources for Century Data Systems (a Xerox company) and Charleston Associates (eventually acquired by Anacomp). Lynne is responsible for all human resources functions. She holds a certificate in Human Resources Management from the University of California, Irvine, and she studied Business Administration at California State University, Fullerton.

 

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Karl Doyle - Senior Vice President of Corporate Development

Karl Doyle is Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. Karl has been in the ECM industry for more than 20 years as an industry analyst, business development executive and consultant. Most recently, Karl acted as an external consultant providing acquisition advisory services for many companies in the ECM space, as well as Kofax. During his 15 year tenure at IBM FileNet, Karl held a variety of executive leadership, product management and business development positions, including Director of Business Development and Strategy, and VP Business Development, where he was instrumental in the IBM acquisition of FileNet. Karl started his ECM career in 1988 as an industry analyst covering the European document imaging and workflow markets.