Ronald Hovsepian

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Mr. Ronald Hovsepian served as Executive Chairman at SumTotal Systems. He serves as a Board Member at Valo. He serves as a Board Member at Skillsoft. He serves as Chairman, Member of the Compensation Committee, Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee, and Chair of the Strategic Partnerships and Transactions Committee at Ansys. He served as a Board Member and Advisor to the CEO at Indigo. He serves as an Executive Partner at Flagship Pioneering. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Novell. As Executive Chairman, he provides strategic oversight and guidance for Skillsoft and is responsible for leading the company through the next phase of evolution. He currently serves as the Lead Director of Ansys, the global leader in engineering simulation, a role he has held for the last five years. Before working at Ansys, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Intralinks, a global provider of secure SaaS collaboration solutions and virtual data rooms. He led Intralinks back to double-digit growth while executing the acquisitions of PE Nexus, MergerID, and docTrackr, and remained at Intralinks through its acquisition by Synchronoss, the leading innovator of cloud solutions, secure enterprise productivity and software-based activation for companies across the globe. Before Intralinks, he served as Chairman of Ann Taylor for ten years and served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Novell, Inc., where he started as Executive Vice President and President, of Worldwide Field Operations in 2003. He began his career at IBM, where he held several management and executive positions over 16 years including Worldwide General Manager in IBM Marketing and Services for the Distribution Industry segment, managing product development of hardware and software, sales and marketing, and services. He holds a BS from Boston College.