Management Team

Kathleen Owens oversees day-to-day operations for the business unit. Her role comprises product development, management, and marketing, as well as technical support, sales, and sales operations. She is responsible for the overall goals, strategies, and decision making that impact business-unit financial results, employee morale, and customer satisfaction. Kathleen has more than 15 years of direct service and leadership in sales, team management, end-to-end processes, and organization.

Prior to assuming this role, she was vice president of sales for North America, in charge of sales success and sales teams including the direct sales force, field technical resources, and sales-channel partner relationships. Having started her Attachmate career in regional and international sales, Kathleen also served as territory manager and sales director. She came to Attachmate with experience in the nonprofit sector and was transportation coordinator at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Kathleen holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame.

In recent news, Kathleen was named to Puget Sound Business Journal “40 Under 40” list for 2013.

Boris Ivancic is responsible for all activities across The Attachmate Group business units in the Asia Pacific region, including Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, India, and Singapore.

Prior to joining Attachmate in 1999, Boris was the sales director in charge of Australia and New Zealand for Lotus Development. He also held various sales and channel management roles with Compaq.

Boris earned an electrical engineering degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Edwin Bowman is responsible for all activities across The Attachmate Group business units in Mexico, Central America, and South America. He brings nearly 20 years of IT experience, along with a strong focus on customers and results, to this position.

Before joining Attachmate in 1999, Edwin was national sales director for NCR Corporation, where he spent six years.

He holds management, finance, and MBA degrees, as well as a business Spanish certificate, from the University of Cincinnati.

Tom Bice directs the Attachmate product marketing, product management, and marketing communications teams. He specializes in enterprise IT software and oversees the business unit’s entire product portfolio including terminal emulation, legacy modernization, enterprise fraud management, and managed file transfer solutions.

Tom brings to Attachmate more than two decades of expertise in marketing and content strategy, product direction, team leadership, message development, brand awareness, and public relations. He rejoined Attachmate in February 2002, having left the company after nine years to take on product marketing leadership positions at Point.com and PictureIQ.

Tom earned economics and social sciences degrees from Colorado State University.

Jennifer Shettleroe leads design, engineering, testing, and ongoing support for more than 20 enterprise software products used by the Attachmate business unit's Global 2000 customers. Her responsibilities and expertise include both client and server products as well as a wide range of technologies, languages, platforms, and protocols.

Jennifer worked in a variety of technical capacities at Agena Corp. (now AMS Services/Vertafore) before joining Attachmate.

She holds a bachelor's degree in computer science, with an emphasis in business, from Seattle Pacific University.

Jon Hale is in charge of the Attachmate business unit's North America sales success and sales teams, including the direct sales force, field technical resources, and sales-channel partner relationships.

Jon has significant experience in leading and mentoring teams that sell strategic technology solutions. Having started his early career in sales and sales management at Automatic Data Processing and Attachmate (then WRQ), he subsequently led sales and business development teams at consulting and accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Moss Adams, before returning to Attachmate in this role.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa.

With responsibility for the Attachmate and Novell global sales operations teams, Katherine Tate oversees the processes that ensure smooth business transactions for customers, partners, and field sales. She also spearheaded the effort to define the vision, mission, and beliefs framework used by all business units across The Attachmate Group.

In addition to sales operations, Katherine's 21-year career at Attachmate has spanned technical support, consulting, sales tools, and training. Prior to Attachmate, she was an HP3000 systems manager at the University of Maryland and a technical editor at MYU Research.

Katherine has a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Idaho as well as an MBA with an emphasis on technology management from the University of Washington.

Norman Rohde is in charge of EMEA sales success and sales teams, including the direct sales force, field technical resources, and sales-channel partner relationships.

Prior to this business-unit position, Norman served as EMEA general manager, as well as Central and Eastern Europe director of sales and marketing for Attachmate. He has also held various management positions at Bull, Intel, Lucent Technologies, and Novell.

He earned BA honors in business administration as well as a German Diplom Betriebswirt.