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Eric Musser is President and CEO of CDC Software. For nearly 15 years, Mr. Musser has served in a variety of management roles at CDC Software and its acquired enterprise software companies. He has built a successful track record of working closely with customers, partners, analysts, and industry associations to deliver leading, industry-specific enterprise solutions and services that enable competitive advantage for customers and create value for the company's stakeholders. Under his leadership, the Customer-Driven Company (CDC) has consistently reported record revenue primarily because of aggressive organic growth through sales to new customers and expansion through well-targeted acquisitions. These impressive results were largely driven by the resounding success of his strategy to transition CDC Software from a developer of enterprise solutions for the horizontal market to one that delivers industry-specific enterprise solutions and services that directly addresses the unique business needs of customers' vertical markets. He also has built a formidable management team, with extensive expertise in the enterprise software, services and capital markets, that is moving the company to new levels of success. Prior to his current roles, Mr. Musser served as Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Chief Technology Officer for CDC Software, where he spearheaded the company's innovative product architecture, new vertical market product strategy, support of advanced technology platforms and development of the company's acquisition strategies. In addition to that role, he also successfully expanded CDC Software's Asia Pacific operations through closely working with business partners and customers there, as well as establishing its first major development center in China. As President of CDC Software's Industri-Matematik (IMI), Eric returned the business to profitability after multiple years of losses and set the foundation for future expansion. He focused IMI on its current blue-chip customer base and started the transition of IMI into a customer-driven company. At Ross Systems, Mr. Musser held senior management positions in services, marketing and development, including Chief Technology Officer. During his tenure there, he also was responsible for shifting the company to a major new technology direction from client/server to Internet-based solutions. Prior to Ross Systems, Mr. Musser held IT management and production engineering positions in the process industries, where he implemented projects spanning from shop floor automation to ERP integration. As a software entrepreneur earlier in his career, he developed CRM solutions running on the Apple Macintosh platform for non-profit organizations. | 