Nigel Clifford to Lead Micro Focus as CEO

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Nigel Clifford will spearhead Micro Focus from May 1, 2010 as Chief Executive Officer. He has nearly 30 years of leadership experience at international technology companies.

Nigel Clifford will spearhead Micro Focus from May 1, 2010 as Chief Executive Officer. He has nearly 30 years of leadership experience at international technology companies. Mr Clifford was the CEO of Symbian Limited before its acquisition by Nokia in December 2008.

Under his leadership, he could successfully integrate Nokia with Symbian and then became Senior Vice President Strategy, Technology&Architecture, Devices at Nokia. Symbian gained remarkable growth while he led the company during his three years tenure.

Though details are not available, presently he is a non executive director of Anite plc.

According to Kevin Loosemore, Chairman of Micro Focus, With an extensive leadership experience, Nigel can lead Micro Focus towards success. He worked as chief executive for more than 14 years in various companies, in which nine years was in software industry. Nigel is an outcome of our extensive

hunt for high quality candidate and we are very much satisfied with him. He is the ideal candidate for lead the company towards the next phase of development and growth because he is familiar with complex environments. We are eagerly waiting for him to be a part of our team for taking the responsibilities of Micro Focus in areas such as operational execution; to address the considerable market opportunity available to the company; and to continue to deliver compelling financial returns.