Kent Erickson

Kent Erickson serves as the Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Workgroup Solutions business unit at Novell. He is responsible for the development of all products that make up Novell's collaboration solutions, including Novell Open Enterprise Server, Novell GroupWise and Novell Teaming + Conferencing. Mr. Erickson joined Novell in 1991, has served in a number of key engineering and business unit leadership roles, and is a member of the Novell Worldwide Management Committee.

His past accomplishments at Novell include responsibility for two major NetWare releases and development of the New Product Initiatives group, which captured technical leadership for Internet-scale caching and security technologies. Previous to his role as general manager, he led the development of Novell's acclaimed Identity and Security Management products.

Mr. Erickson earned his degree in Economics from Brigham Young University with an emphasis in management.