Board of Directors

Kevin Loosemore, 51 (Executive Chairman)

Kevin is a director of Farnham Castle and until recently was non-executive Chairman of Morse plc and a non-executive director of Nationwide Building Society. He was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Cable & Wireless plc, President of Motorola Europe, Middle East and Africa and, before that, was Chief Executive of IBM UK Limited. He has a degree in politics and economics from Oxford University.

Mike Phillips (Chief Financial Officer)

Mike joined Micro Focus on 7 September 2010 and started fulltime with the company on 4 October 2010. He has more than 10 years experience in financial leadership roles at publicly listed international technology corporations. Most recently, he was CEO at Morse plc, following his initial role as Group Finance Director. Mike left in July 2010 following the successful corporate sale to 2e2 in June 2010.

From 1998 to 2007, Mike was Group Finance Director at Microgen plc where he was responsible for the execution of the company’s M&A activity, internal and external financial reporting, investor relations and corporate finance. During his time at Microgen, Mike played a lead role in the transformation of the company to an international IT services business with sustainable and profitable growth.

Earlier roles include seven years corp orate finance work at Smith & Williamson, as well as two years at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he led the UK technology team, reporting to the global Head of Corporate Finance for the Technology Sector. Mike began his career at Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co (now KPMG).

David Maloney, 55 (Non-executive senior independent director and Deputy Chairman) *†‡

David is a non-executive director of Ludorum plc, Cineworld Group plc, Carillion plc and Enterprise Inns plc. He is also Chairman of the board of Trustees of Make-a-Wish Foundation (UK) Limited and has recently been appointed Chairman of Brandon Hire Limited and Reed & Mackay Travel Limited. David was previously Chairman of Hoseasons Holdings Ltd and his most recent executive role was as Chief Financial Officer of the global hotel group Le Meridien Hotels and Resorts. Prior to that he was Chief Financial Officer of Thomson Travel Group and Preussag Airlines and Group Finance Director of Avis Europe plc. David was appointed non-executive senior independent director in 2005 and Deputy Chairman in April 2011. David is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and has a degree in economics from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Tom Skelton, 49 (Non-executive director) *†

Tom is Chief Executive Officer of Foundation Radiology Group and a founding member of Confluence Medical Systems, a healthcare and technology consulting partnership. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer for Misys Healthcare Systems from January 2002 until March 2007 and as a director of Misys plc. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive Officer of Medic Computer Systems, a US-based software company focused on the healthcare information technology market. He earned his BSBA from Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Karen Slatford, 53 (Non-executive director) *†

Karen is Chairman of Neverfail Group Limited, the continuous availability firm, Chairman of The Foundry, a leading special effects software company and a non-executive director at Volex Group plc, the global supplier of components and cables. Prior to her current board responsibilities, she has held various roles at board level since 2001 at a range of technology companies, including Portwise AB, Via Networks, Inc, Compel Group plc, HAL Knowledge Systems and Stepstone ASA. Karen began her career at ICL before spending 20 years at Hewlett Packard, where in 2000 she became Vice President and General Manager Worldwide Sales & Marketing for the Business Customer Organisation, responsible for sales of all Hewlett Packard’s products, services and software to business customers globally. Karen holds a BA Honours degree in European Studies from Bath University and a Diploma in Marketing.