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CEO, Novell, Inc.
Formerly President and Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Technology Partners and responsible for setting the company's strategic direction and leading its growth as an international e-business services provider since 1999. Joined Cambridge Board of Directors in 1992. Prior experience includes roles as Chairman and CEO of Union Pacific Resources Group Inc. (UPRG), a North American independent oil and gas exploration and production company; Jack was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Pollution Control, Inc., Union Pacific's environmental services company; as Managing Director of Mason Best Company of Houston, an investment banking firm; as Chairman and CEO of Somerset House Corporation, a publishing company owned by Mason Best; as Executive Vice President-Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors for Warner Amex Cable Communications, Inc.; as Executive Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc.; as President and CEO of Novell, Inc. from 1982-1983; as President and CEO of Norcross Inc., a consumer products company; and, prior to 1973, as a partner in a Philadelphia investment banking firm. Messman graduated from the University of Delaware with a bachelor of science in chemical engineering, and received his MBA with Distinction from the Harvard School of Business Administration.
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