Eric Andersen

Eric Andersen joined the Board in January 2008 and currently serves as lead director. He has over 25 years of consulting and management experience at IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”), and PwC Consulting. His last 15 years have been spent in private equity. He is currently a part-time operating partner at Peak Equity (“Peak”), a Philadelphia-based private equity firm focused on lower middle market enterprise software. Prior to joining Peak, Mr. Andersen was a partner at Milestone Partners, a Philadelphia-based private equity firm and he was a managing director at Silver Lake Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm based in New York. During his tenures with PwC, PwC Consulting, and IBM, Mr. Andersen was a senior partner and senior executive leading several businesses in the United States and Asia as well as globally. Mr. Andersen is currently Chairman of the Board of American Public Education Inc., a publicly traded online higher education company where he is also a member of the management development and compensation committee. Mr. Andersen holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS from Bucknell University.