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Alan N. Trefler (born March 10, 1956) is an American billionaire businessman and chess master best known as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Pegasystems, a multinational software company he founded in 1983. Prior to Pegasystems, in 1975 Trefler tied for first place in the World Open Chess Championship with grandmaster Pal Benko, afterwards working as a software engineer for Casher Associates and TMI Systems. Founding Pegasystems at the age of 27, he took the company Public company in 1996, with Trefler remaining clerk and president until 1999 and afterwards becoming CEO. With a 52 percent ownership stake in Pegasystems, his net worth surpassed $1 billion in 2013 and in March 2017 he appeared on the Forbes Billionaire's List for the first time. In 2014 he authored the book Build for Change, which addresses changing consumer markets. Involved in philanthropy, in 1997 he established the Trefler Foundation.

Mr. Salona has over 25 years of professional experience in Internet/Intranet applications and information systems with clients, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Digital Equipment Corporation, Texaco Inc, Science Applications Research, and several healthcare corporations. He has led REI in the design and implementation of an innovative Electronic Handbook approach to Internet-driven information systems for complex document-driven business processes. Mr. Salona received his M.S. in computer science from the Center for Advanced Computer Studies, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, in 1982. He earned a diploma for his graduate research in computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, in 1978. He received an M.S. in operations research, St. Stephen's College, Delhi, India, in 1977.