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Bounthara "Bounty" Ing is executive vice president and deputy CEO at ILOG, as well as head of the company's Asian operations in Shanghai, China. He also leads ILOG's partnering activities worldwide, as well as ILOG's new Semiconductor Business Division which focuses on the development and sales of ILOG's fab solutions suite, FabPowerOps (FPO). Throughout his ILOG career, Ing has moved from groundbreaking technical work into key leadership roles. He spearheaded the company's entry into the financial services market, and has greatly contributed to the momentum of its business rule products. Prior to becoming COO, Ing ran the division responsible for ILOG's strategy and execution in the financial industries (banking and insurance), as well as the transportation, travel, government and aerospace industries. He also founded and served as president of ILOG Japan, preceded by a term as managing director of ILOG Pte. Ltd., Singapore. Earlier, he managed ILOG's graphics department, where he built an advanced graphics team that developed products accounting for two-thirds of ILOG's revenue in 1988. Ing was awarded the Philip Morris Scientific Prize in 1989 for his contribution to ILOG Masai, the first GUI builder. Prior to joining ILOG, Ing was an application developer for CGI, a subsidiary of IBM in Paris, and a researcher for the European Computer Research Center (ECRC) in Munich. He earned a degree in engineering at Ecole Centrale de Paris in 1986.

Jean Francois Abramatic is ILOG's chief product officer. He is responsible for product vision and strategy, product design and development, and product marketing and management. Abramatic oversees every element of how products are defined, developed, engineered, brought to market and maintained. A former ILOG board member, Abramatic has more than 30 years of research-and-development experience in a broad range of academic and industrial disciplines. In his current role he spearheads ILOG's product division, directing an international team of scientists, product managers and software engineers located in France and the United States. A recognized Internet authority, Abramatic was chairman of the International World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) from 1996 to 2001, and is a former director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He has also advised the French government on the state of Internet development worldwide, including recommendations for speeding up Internet development in France. Abramatic's technology experience includes roles as former associate director at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, and the founding of the Department of Business Development at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA). He currently serves on many advisory boards, including the Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies, which advises the French government on information technology strategies. He also serves on advisory boards for Reuters Venture Capital, the Forum des Droits de l.Internet (a forum aimed at debating about rights and ethics on the Web), and Xylème (a content solutions provider). Earlier achievements include a role as founder, chairman and CEO of a company that designed and manufactured graphics terminals. Abramatic started his career as a research scientist at INRIA, concentrating on the area of image processing. He has published more than 40 scientific papers, and holds two patents in image processing. Abramatic earned an engineering diploma at Ecole des Mines, Nancy, in 1971, and a PhD in computer science at the University of Paris VI in 1980.

Jerome Arnaud is ILOG's chief financial officer, responsible for global financial operations. He brings to the position 15 years of international accounting and corporate finance experience. Arnaud's background includes time with technology, manufacturing and consulting organizations. Arnaud joined ILOG as group controller. He led a major initiative to streamline the company's financial reporting systems. This effort helped create better cost-control and predictive capabilities. Arnaud has been actively engaged in investor relations during his tenure with ILOG. (The company is dually listed on the NASDAQ and EURONEXT.) Prior to joining ILOG, Arnaud was group controller of Ansaldo Signal, a public company that sold transportation signaling products. He also spent a decade at Pricewaterhouse Coopers as a senior auditor, managing clients dually listed on the US and European stock exchanges. Arnaud is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, a business school in Lille, France.

Christian Deutsch is ILOG's chief quality officer, responsible for establishing companywide quality control, including capturing and monitoring business processes that affect ILOG's performance and risk management. Deutsch also ensures ILOG's compliance with global corporate-governance requirements. He brings over 28 years of technology-industry experience to the position. During his five-year tenure at ILOG, Deutsch most recently held the position of vice president and general manager of European sales. Previously, he served as general manager of the former Value Chain Management business division. Before that, Deutsch was vice president of operations, director of strategic partnerships and program director for ILOG Professional Services. Prior to joining ILOG in 1998, Deutsch served as co-chief executive officer of OPEFORM. There, he developed the consulting company's business plan and provided implementation support for IT solutions in the transportation industry. Acting as OPEFORM's research manager, Deutsch led multi-disciplinary business analysis projects for private, national, European and international organizations. Most of these projects were driven by safety, compliance and quality issues. Deutsch also held the position of chief technology officer at ERAAM, an IT services provider, which was later acquired by Lockheed Martin. From 1973 to 1983, Deutsch held the positions of researcher and professor of mathematics at Paris University. He is a member of several professional societies, including IALA, UNIDO and IMO. Deutsch earned master's and doctoral degrees in mathematics from the University of Paris.

Eric Brisson is ILOG's executive vice president with overall responsibility for sales in the U.S. and Europe. He brings 15 years of experience in the technology industry to the position. Previously, Brisson was vice president of European sales, where he helped grow ILOG's BRMS business by 70 percent over two years. Prior to that, he led ILOG's Strategic Business Development Division, with responsibility for ILOG's award-winning partnership program. During his tenure, Brisson led initiatives to secure partnerships with leading business process management (BPM) vendors and systems integrators for ILOG's Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS). An 11-year ILOG veteran, Brisson has also served as general manager of ILOG's Communications Business division where he helped cement the company's footprint with large carriers. Brisson also helped develop ILOG's Professional Services organization, creating customer relationships and project management for clients such as QUALCOMM Inc. and ARINC/CI. He joined ILOG as a senior software developer. From 1991 to 1995, Brisson was a research engineer for CSTB, the French government research center, where he managed definition and scope for various research projects, and was responsible for specifications and software development in artificial intelligence. Brisson earned a bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Nice in 1988, and a master's degree in computer science at the University of Paris in 1990.

Janet Lowe is ILOG's vice president of strategic projects. Lowe has more than 20 years of experience in technical management of software operations. Prior to her current position, she led special projects at ILOG. Prior to her positions at ILOG, Lowe was cofounder and vice president of CPLEX Inc., the leading supplier of math programming optimization engines. She also served on CPLEX's board of directors from 1989 until 1997, when ILOG acquired CPLEX. Under Lowe's direction, some 500 former CPLEX customers transferred to ILOG, continuing nearly all existing relationships. Additionally, two important CPLEX sales models transferred to ILOG: the independent software vendor (ISV) partner model and the direct telesales model. Both remain significant profit producers for ILOG. Before cofounding CPLEX, Lowe held positions as manufacturing operations manager at Shell Oil Company, a product marketing manager at Compaq Computer Corporation and director of mergers and acquisitions at Vyvx Inc., a subsidiary of Wiltel. Lowe earned a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering at the University of Texas in 1980, and an MBA at Rice University in 1988.

Richard T. Liebhaber has served as a Director since June 1997. Mr. Liebhaber was a Consulting Managing Director at Veronis, Suhler & Associates, Inc., a provider of financial advisory services to the communications industry, from June 1995 to August 2001. Prior to that, Mr. Liebhaber served as Executive Vice President of MCI Communications Corporation, a telecommunications provider, from December 1985 to May 1995. Mr. Liebhaber also serves on the board of directors of ILOG S.A., a software company, JDS Uniphase Corporation, a provider of optical communications products, and Cogent Communications, Inc., an internet service provider.