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Brian J. Cassidy has served as director of Manhattan Associates since 1998. Mr. Cassidy, co-founder of Webforia, has been directly involved in the software industry for thirty years. He began his career as a system programmer in 1970 and joined Smith Kline Beecham in 1972, where he worked as a mathematician on the world-class team that developed the drug Tagamet. From 1974 to 1980, he designed and led the delivery of large database applications as project director for a Danish Systems Engineering Company, whose major clients included the European Space Agency and the governments of Kuwait, Egypt and Peru. In 1980, Mr. Cassidy co-founded Oracle Corporation Europe and managed it for ten years. He was Oracle MVP in 1986. In 1990, he began investing in startup technology companies such as Netwise, which was later sold to Microsoft and Saros. Mr. Cassidy is on the board of several successful Internet companies, contributing to their exploitation of the large European market place. | 