Board members

Elaine Wetmore

Director, Chair of the Board of Directors

Wetmore has served as a SoftBrands director since August 2002 and has served as chair of the board of directors cine Oct.1, 2007. Wetmore is an adjunct professor of finance at St. Edwards University. She has been treasurer since 2003 and chief executive officer from 2001 to 2002 of the Austin Entrepreneurs Foundation, a charitable foundation. From 1998 until its sale in January 2000, she was president and chief operating officer of Knowledge Discovery One, Inc., a venture-backed technology start-up. Wetmore was vice president and chief financial officer of Tivoli Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of IBM, until 1998.

Dann V. Angeloff

Director, Chairman of the Compensation Committee, Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Member of the Audit Committee

Angeloff has served as a SoftBrands director since we were formed and served as a director of AremisSoft from April 1999 through August 2002. He is the founder and president of The Angeloff Company, a corporate financial advisory firm, a position he has held since 1976. He also currently serves as a director of Public Storage, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange listed company; Nicholas/Applegate Growth Equity Fund; Bjurman Barry Funds; Electronic Recyclers International; and is chairman emeritus and past president of the Southern California Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors.

George H. Ellis

Director, Member of the Technology and Corporate Growth Committee

Ellis has been chief financial officer of Global 360, Inc., a developer of business process management software, since July 2006.  He has also served as our chairman from the company’s formation to October 2007, as our executive chairman from January 2006 to June 2006, and our chief executive officer from our formation to January 2006.  He was also chairman and chief executive officer of AremisSoft Corporation from October 2001 to July 2002. Previously, Ellis served as chief financial officer of Sterling Software, Inc., chief financial officer and founder of Sterling Commerce, Inc., a spin-off of Sterling Software, and executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Communities Foundation of Texas. Ellis is currently a director of PeopleSupport, Inc. and Blackbaud, Inc. and serves on the advisory boards of the Southern Methodist University Law School; The Entrepreneurs Foundation of North Texas: and Dallas Social Venture Partners.

John Hunt

Director

John Hunt is a partner with ABRY Partners, LLC, a private equity firm focused on the media and communications industry, based in Boston. He joined ABRY in May 2004 and is the co-head of ABRY Mezzanine Investors, L.P. ABRY Mezzanine Investors, L.P serves as the general partner of ABRY Mezzanine Partners, L.P., the holder of a majority of our Series C-1 Preferred Stock and Series D Preferred Stock, and is the designee to our Board of Directors under the purchase agreements under which these series of preferred stock were sold. From 1990 to May 2004 Hunt was with Boston Venture Management, Inc., a private equity fund. Hunt is a director of Navtech, Inc.

W. Douglas Lewis

Director, Chairman of the Technology and Corporate Growth Committee, Member of the Audit Committee

Lewis was elected a director in May 2005. Lewis has been non-executive chairman of Open World, Ltd., a global provider of e-commerce solutions to the hospitality industry, since January 2006, and is also a partner with The Edge Consulting Group, a strategic consulting firm specializing in the hospitality industry that he founded in May 2003. From November 2004 until March 2006, he was managing director of Leading the Way, an international ministry. Lewis has also served as senior vice president and chief information officer at Carnival Corporation and executive vice president and chief information officer for Six Continents Hotels, and its predecessor, Holiday Inns International. Prior to that time, Lewis held positions at AT&T/Lucent Technologies, the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies and General Dynamics.

Randal B. Tofteland

Director, President & Chief Executive Officer, SoftBrands

Tofteland has been a director of SoftBrands since August 2004. He was appointed SoftBrands chief executive officer in January 2006, and served as its president since October 2003, and was our senior vice president of manufacturing operations from December 2001 until October 2003. He was the chief operating officer of Fourth Shift Corporation, a subsidiary, from the date of its acquisition by AremisSoft in April 2001 until October 2003. Tofteland joined Fourth Shift Corporation in 1997 and served as chief operating officer when Fourth Shift was acquired by AremisSoft in April 2001. He served as president of MedVision, Inc. and held various roles with GE Medical Systems.

Jeffrey J. Vorholt

Director, Chairman of the Audit Committee, Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, Member of the Compensation Committee

Vorholt has served as a SoftBrands director since August 2002. Vorholt, a CPA and an attorney, is a visiting instructor of accountancy at Miami University (Ohio) and an adjunct professor of accountancy at Xavier University since November 2001. He was chief financial officer of Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, a public software company, from 1994 until its sale to Electronic Data Systems Corporation in November 2001. From 1991 to 1994, Vorholt was senior vice president of accounting and information systems at Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company and was senior vice president, a director and chief financial officer of Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. (now Convergys) from 1991 to 1994. Vorholt also serves as a director and chairman of the Audit Committee of ABX Air, Inc.