Board of Directors

Chairman of the Board

Michael Moppert co-founded the company in 1993 and headed Day Software for over 15 years as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors. In June 2008 Moppert handed over his operational responsibilities to Erik Hansen. He continues to serve the company as Chairman of the Board.

As CEO Moppert was driving the successful growth of the company, converting it from a local swiss consulting agency into a global software vendor. In 1998 Moppert opened the U.S. subsidiary of Day in Los Angeles in 1998. In 1999 subsidiaries in Germany, the UK and Asia/Pacific followed. In 2000 Moppert led the company to a successful IPO on the Swiss Stock Exchange.

Prior to Day Software, Mr. Moppert was working as a journalist and as an independent corporate communications consultant. Moppert holds a Masters degree in History and Economics from the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Board Member

Erik Hansen is CEO of Day, responsible for overall company strategy. Mr. Hansen is a recognized software industry veteran with over 30 years of experience as a senior executive at leading software companies, including Interwoven, Tibco, Siemens and Apple, both in Europe and in the United States.

Before joining Day, he was leading the European operations of U.S. ECM vendor Interwoven as Senior Vice President and General Manager EMEA. Prior to Interwoven, Mr. Hansen was heading the European operations of Netegrity, a leading provider of identity and access management solutions. Before his engagement at Netegrity, Mr. Hansen served as President EMEA at Tibco, where he very successfully built the European operations of this global infrastructure software vendor. Before Tibco Mr. Hansen was Executive Vice President and General Manager Operations of Siemens Pyramid Inc , a 100% owned subsidiary of Siemens, during which time he was based in San Jose, California.

Board Member

Greg Williams is Vice President & General Counsel at DATAllegro Inc., a leading data warehouse appliance company. At DATAllegro, Mr. Williams is responsible for all transactions, legal compliance, contracts, and Board representation, as well as many operational roles. Mr. Williams has been an attorney for over 18 years, and has specialized in the areas of corporate, securities, venture capital and mergers and acquisitions. He has represented numerous highly successful companies from start up through IPO or sale, including Quest Software, GeoCities, u-Nav Microelectronics, Avamar Technologies, Phase Metrics, Senior Systems Technology, Magnecomp, and others.

Prior to joining DATAllegro, Greg was a corporate partner with Allen Matkins for four years, and prior to that was an associate and then a corporate partner with Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison for 13 years. Greg has a Juris Doctorate from the University of Minnesota, Magna Cum Laude, and a Bachelors degree from the University of Minnesota in accounting and political science, Magna Cum Laude.

Board Member

David Nüscheler is Chief Technology Officer for Day. He is responsible for technology strategy for the company and ongoing product development. Mr. Nüscheler joined Day in 1994 and is key to the growth of the company from a small multimedia agency to a leading enterprise content management solution company. He created the basic concept for the original Communiqué and has guided product development to create a truly advanced content unification and presentation platform. He specializes in application and systems programming, as well as Internet programming.

Mr. Nüscheler studied Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute Technology in Zürich, Switzerland.

Board Member

Mark Walsh is the Chief Technology Advisor for the Democratic National Committee. He is the first person to have that job, and is responsible for bringing the Party and its tactics into the 21st Century. He has been in the interactive services/internet industry for 15 years.

Previously, Mark was the Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of VerticalNet, Inc. Mark joined VerticalNet in August 1997 as President and CEO, and was appointed to Chairman in July 2000. VerticalNet is an enterprise software and services company that uses the Internet to help companies transact and collaborate. Previously, he was a Senior VP and Corporate Officer at America Online. He ran AOL Enterprise, the business-to-business division of AOL. He founded the group. He also was president GE's interactive services division.

Board Member

Ariel Luedi is the CEO of hybris AG (www.hybris.com), a leading software company focusing on Product Information Management (PIM) and E-Business. At hybris he is responsible for European expansion and has initiated aggressive company growth. Ariel joined hybris in September 2004.

Prior to coming to hybris, Ariel spent two years as Senior Vice-President of salesforce.com with responsibility for European sales and the development of European subsidiaries. During that time he oversaw an increase in revenue of more than 100% annually. Previously, Ariel led European sales at BroadVision for six years. During this period he managed to increase business from zero to over US$ 100 million. Before that, he was in charge of sales at Oracle Switzerland for seven years. Ariel Luedi joined Oracle from IBM, his first position after studying physics at ETH in Zurich.