Ali Jenab is president and chief executive officer of VA Software Corporation. A seventeenyear veteran of Amdahl Corporation, Jenab joined the VA management team in the fall of 2000. Over the course of his first year at VA, he played a pivotal role in the company's transition out of the Linux hardware business and positioned VA to focus on SourceForge as an enterprise software product. Jenab's experience in largescale enterprise IT solutions, combined with his operational expertise, has been instrumental in building VA Software's business around SourceForge.

Prior to his appointment at VA, Jenab was group president of Amdahl's Technology Division. In that role, he grew revenues to over $500 million. Previous positions he held during his tenure at Amdahl include vice president of strategic business, vice president of worldwide marketing, and vice president of systems marketing, responsible for marketing S/390, UNIX and NT server and storage products.

Jenab currently serves on the board of directors for Sagent, a provider of enterprise business intelligence solutions, and Tower Automotive, Inc. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of the Pacific.

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