Industry & Solution Strategy Director Food & Beverage, Chemical, Life Sciences Mike is responsible for Infor’s positioning and strategic direction in the Food, Beverage, Chemicals and Life Sciences markets across the suite of solutions that Infor provides to these process manufacturing industries.

Partner, Chief Operating Officer Richard Sides has more than 20 years technology-related operational experience assisting manufacturing and distribution organizations by improving their business processes and supporting information systems. Richard's experience includes operational responsibilities, management consulting, ERP system implementation, and serving in a variety of senior executive management roles. Richard's background includes significant experience in food/beverage, process and discrete manufacturing as well as logistics, distribution and supply chain management. Richard started his career with Kraft Foods and was part of the pioneering efforts to introduce integrated supervisory and process control systems to Kraft's production lines. He finished his career with Kraft by serving as the systems lead on the pilot implementation of Kraft's Marcam Prism ERP rollout.