JDA Software Names David Gai Executive Vice President of Services

JDA^® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company^®, today announced that David Gai has been named executive vice president of services. In this role, Gai will be responsible for JDA’s global services organization, including professional services (which entails implementation, education and strategic services), managed services and support.

“Today, our customers expect far more than just great technology from JDA; they expect thought leadership and trusted advice to help them overcome their challenges. David Gai understands this and brings a wealth of experience that will help us craft our service offerings to maximize value for both our customers and JDA,” said JDA Software President and Chief Executive Officer, Hamish Brewer. “His strong background with global organizations, strategic development, executive leadership and customer-focused initiatives are a welcome addition to JDA and we look forward working with David to grow our services business.”

Gai joins JDA from EMC where he was vice president, worldwide services for the company’s content management and archival division. Prior to EMC he worked at BEA Systems as executive vice president for worldwide services from 2004 to 2008 and as senior vice president, worldwide customer support, from 2003 to 2004. He was chief executive officer and president of Equitant, an order-to-cash outsourcing business based in Ireland, from 2001 to 2003 and has also held senior management positions at Hewlett-Packard Services and Myers-Holum.

Gai has a bachelor’s degree in computer science software engineering from California State University of Sacramento and is a 2005 graduate of the Stanford Executive Institute.

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About JDA Software Group, Inc.

JDA^® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company^®, is the leading provider of innovative supply chain management, merchandising and pricing excellence solutions worldwide. JDA empowers more than 6,000 companies of all sizes to make optimal decisions that improve profitability and achieve real results in the discrete and process manufacturing, wholesale distribution, transportation, retail and services industries. With an integrated solutions offering that spans the entire supply chain from materials to the consumer, JDA leverages the powerful heritage and knowledge capital of acquired market leaders including i2 Technologies^®, Manugistics^®, E3^®, Intactix^® and Arthur^®. JDA’s multiple service options, delivered via the JDA^® Private Cloud, provide customers with flexible configurations, rapid time-to-value, lower total cost of ownership and 24/7 functional and technical support and expertise. To learn more, visit www.jda.com or e-mail info@jda.com.

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