Software Veteran Yogesh Gupta Named CEO
Prior to joining Progress, Gupta was president and chief executive
officer of
Prior to
"Yogesh is clearly the right leader for Progress' future," said John R. Egan, chairman of the board of directors. "The board, as part of its annual succession planning, considered both internal and external candidates to find the best leader for our company and its employees, customers, partners and shareholders. During the course of this review, we found an individual in Yogesh with a proven track record of delivering outstanding investor returns through innovative growth strategies and strong execution, making him an incredible fit for our company and the CEO to lead the company to the next level."
Added Egan, "On behalf of the board and company, I want to thank Phil for his many contributions to Progress, particularly in leading the company through a period of significant change. I am thrilled that Phil will continue to serve on the board of directors, where he will be an invaluable resource to Yogesh, while at the same time adding his extensive experience as a public company board member."
In connection with his appointment as CEO, the board also elected Gupta
as a member of the board of directors. Gupta is not related to
"Over the last four years, we have refocused Progress and built a solid strategic foundation for growth," said Pead. "Making the decision to retire is never easy but given the alignment of Yogesh's skills and experience with the strides we have made as we prepare to exit 2016, I decided that this would be the right time for me to accelerate my retirement so that we could recruit Yogesh to lead the next phase of the growth of our company. I couldn't be more excited to welcome Yogesh as our new CEO. I will also remain on the board of Progress and look forward to seeing our momentum accelerate under Yogesh's leadership."
"I'm incredibly excited to join the Progress team," said Gupta. "Progress has that rare combination of a passionate customer and partner base, leading products, amazingly talented people, dedication to technology innovation, and momentum in the market. As we add capabilities for our customers and partners, deepen our enterprise presence, and further expand into the cloud, our mission remains unchanged—to enable developers to create the applications of tomorrow - ones that deliver engaging user experiences, leverage enterprise data, and run on the most scalable and reliable platform in the industry."
As part of today's announcement, Progress is reaffirming its guidance
for the fiscal quarter and year ended
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In conjunction with this announcement, Progress will host a conference
call at
Non-GAAP Financial Information
Progress provides non-GAAP supplemental information to its financial results.
We use this non-GAAP information to evaluate our period-over-period operating performance because our management believes the information helps illustrate underlying trends in our business and provides us with a more comparable measure of our continuing business, as well as a greater understanding of the results from the primary operations of our business, by excluding the effects of certain items that do not reflect the ordinary earnings of our operations. Management also uses this non-GAAP financial information to establish budgets and operational goals, which are communicated internally and externally, evaluate performance, and allocate resources. In addition, compensation of our executives and non-executive employees is based in part on the performance of our business evaluated using this same non-GAAP information.
However, this non-GAAP information is not in accordance with, or an
alternative to, generally accepted accounting principles in
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(1) Economic, geopolitical and market conditions, including the
uncertain economic environment in
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