• Larry Augustin, Chief Executive Officer
• Yun-Ping Hsu, Vice President of Engineering
• Steve Lance, Vice President of Finance and Administration
• Lila Tretikov, Chief Information Officer
• Andy Dreisch, Vice President of Services
• Clint Oram, Vice President of Product Management, Co-Founder
• Chris Harrick, Vice President of Corporate and Product Marketing

Larry Augustin

Chief Executive Officer

Larry Augustin is an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Appcelerator, Compiere, DeviceVM, DotNetNuke, Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, Pentaho and SugarCRM. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000. From 2002 to 2004 he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners. In 1993 he founded VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ:LNUX) serving as CEO until August 2002. While CEO he launched SourceForge.net and led the company through an IPO in December 1999.

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Yun-Ping Hsu

Vice President of Engineering

Yun-Ping Hsu, Vice President of Engineering at SugarCRM, is responsible for the software engineering and Sugar On-Demand operation of SugarCRM. Yun-Ping has 18 years of experience in software development and management, and proven track record of successfully designing and building strong engineering teams and software products.

Prior to joining SugarCRM, Yun-Ping Hsu was the Vice President of Engineering and Worldwide Support at BroadVision where he guided the design and development of BroadVision's Commerce, eMarketing, Portal and Process products. Prior to BroadVision, he worked on Internet advertising management software at NetGravity, Lotus Notes at Iris Associates, and the development of distributed transaction processing systems at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Yun-Ping is co-author of two software patents and holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University and a MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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Steve Lance

Vice President of Finance and Administration

Steve Lance joined SugarCRM early in 2006, bringing 20 years of experience managing finance operations for high-growth technology companies. As Vice President of Finance and Administration, Steve provides the leadership necessary to support SugarCRM's worldwide expansion. Steve has developed the financial systems infrastructure required to support global operations, and produces meticulous, accurate and timely financials. Steve's insightful financial analysis is paramount to the management team's fact based decisions.

Prior to his career at SugarCRM, Steve played a significant role in an initial public offering, several mergers and acquisitions, and international expansions. Steve previously held senior financial management positions at several public companies including SumTotal Systems (formerly Docent, Inc.), ADAC Laboratories, Phoenix Technologies, and KLA-Tencor. Steve holds a BS in Business from San Jose State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

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Lila Tretikov

Chief Information Officer

Lila Tretikov is responsible for Information Technology and Operations at SugarCRM including growing and scaling Sugar On-Demand and SugarCRM services infrastructure. Lila has a rich background in enterprise software spanning multiple verticals from financial to bioengineering to high-tech. She focuses on building robust, redundant, top-performance, high-availability networks and software.

Prior to coming to Sugar, Lila led development of solutions for the telecommunications space in a 24/7 high-availability geographically redundant environments for numerous fortune 500 customers. She was responsible for development of network applications for enterprise partners such as VeriSign and Sprint/Nextel. Lila has been delivering distributed enterprise software for large customers such as Bank of America and Sun Microsystems as well as led product design, development and deployment at start-up companies.

Lila has research background in Computer Science and Mathematics. She studied computer science and design at University of California at Berkeley and Lomonosov Moscow State University.

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Andy Dreisch

Vice President of Services

Andy Dreisch is the Vice President of Services, with executive responsibility for professional services, customer support and training in support of our worldwide customer base. Andy was recently Vice President of Community Development at SugarCRM, leading Sugar Open Source project, community and developer initiatives. Andy's leadership in product marketing, product development and engineering has been instrumental to Sugar's success.

Prior to joining SugarCRM, Andy held a variety of positions building successful startup software companies in Silicon Valley. Andy's 5 years with WebEx Communications, Inc. began in the company's early growth phase where he was instrumental in developing programs in support of large-scale enterprise sales and adoption across the entire WebEx subscription base. During his time there, WebEx grew to become the premier web conferencing service provider and remains the dominate player in that space.

Andy attended Towson University in Baltimore, MD, where be received a BS in dual disciplines, Economics and Finance.

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Clint Oram

Vice President of Product Management, Co-Founder

Clint Oram is one of three co-founders of SugarCRM and co-led the product design and development as well as the customer services team through the first year of business. He is now responsible for managing relations with the Sugar Open Source community, including developer relations and Sugar's community web site properties. Previously, Clint managed SugarCRM's European operations, located in Dublin, Ireland.

Clint has spent over 15 years in the enterprise software industry. Prior to co-founding SugarCRM, Clint held a variety of professional services and product management roles at E.piphany, Octane Software, Hewlett Packard and PG&E. Clint holds a BS in Computer Science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and is a co-author of a software engineering patent.

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Chris Harrick

Vice President of Corporate and Product Marketing

Chris Harrick is vice president of corporate and product marketing with responsibilities for marketing communications, public relations, events, analyst relations and SugarCRM's commercial web properties. An early employee of SugarCRM, Chris has played a key role in helping establish SugarCRM's brand and product leadership in the CRM market.

Chris has over 10 years of experience in enterprise software. Before joining SugarCRM, Chris held a variety of product marketing roles at Siebel Systems. Chris began his career at Mainspring, an Internet consultancy that was acquired by IBM. He holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor's degree from Boston College.

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