Dave Hansen joins Texthelp as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors

Texthelp, the leading provider of literacy and numeracy assistive technologies to the education and corporate sectors, has appointed Dave Hansen as Non-Executive Chairman. 

Hansen joins the Texthelp board of directors following the recent investment in the company from Five Arrows, the private equity arm of Rothschild & Co.

Hansen is an accomplished technology leader, board chair and director in both private and public technology companies.  He started his career running IT organisations with experience in education, manufacturing and technology.  He transitioned into leading software businesses during his 10 year career at CA Technologies (now Broadcom).  Hansen has led large teams responsible for the CA Security and Enterprise product families.  His first CEO opportunity was Numara software, a leader in Service and Asset Management, which subsequently was acquired by BMC software where Hansen continued to lead that division.  He then became CEO of Safenet, a large privately held authentication and encryption company.  Hansen also previously headed up sales, services, marketing and partners for the Dell Software group.

For the last five years, Hansen has worked as an Operating Executive in private equity. In that role he has served as chairman of several privately held companies and has been on the Board of Senetas (ASX) for the last 5 years.