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Jeffrey Katz Elected To CA Technologies Board

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Jeffrey Katz, 59, has been elected to the board of directors at CA Technologies. He has also been named as a member of the board’s Audit Committee and Compliance and Risk Committee. Mr. Katz’s appointment brings the board membership to twelve, eleven of the members are independent.

Mr. Katz was founding chairman, president and chief executive officer of online travel company Orbitz. Most recently, he served as chief executive officer of Wize Commerce, a provider of online monetization and traffic acquisition  technology solutions. He formerly served on the boards of Digital River, LeapFrog Enterprises, Northwest Airlines, and Orbitz.

Mr. Katz earned a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.

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