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PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(a)
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COMPUTER ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL, INC.
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About Steve Perkins
President of Ranger Governance, Ltd.
Steve Perkins, a Managing Director of Ranger Governance Ltd., recently was
named as Ranger's President. He has had a long - and quintessentially
varied - career in the software industry. Now 58, his relationship with
Ranger founder Sam Wyly goes back 30 years and spans three companies, a
dozen jobs, and a wealth of software - some of which are among the most
important software products on the market today. It was, among other
things, that enduring success and breadth of experience that prompted Wyly
to choose Perkins to lead Ranger.
In 1969 Perkins joined University Computing Company (UCC), a Dallas-based
software services firm begun by Wyly in 1963. While there, Perkins had a
lead role in the development and customer support teams for a range of UCC
systems software products, including UCC-1, UCC-3 and UCC-7. The popular
and reliable software became staples in datacenters throughout the world.
In 1987, Computer Associates acquired Uccel (formerly UCC), and these
products became CA-1, CA-3 and CA-7 - and today they remain critical
infrastructure systems for many Fortune 500 companies.
Besides software development, Perkins has founded companies, guided
marketing, built customer service and led sales. He co-founded and was
president of PSI TECH International, Inc.; vice president of The Systems
Center, Inc.; vice president, account executives, at Shared Financial
Systems, Inc. (now Stratus Computing); vice president, marketing, of VI
Systems, Inc.; and vice president, client services, for Uccel Corporation.
As executive vice president and Communications Software Group president for
Sterling Commerce - a company spun-off from Sterling Software, Inc., which
was co-founded by Sam Wyly - Perkins grew revenue from $35 million to $200
million over seven years. One of Sterling Commerce's products, CONNECT,
became the market-share leader even after some competitors began to give
away their products. Perkins eventually helped guide the sale of Sterling
Commerce to SBC Communications for $3.9 billion in early 2000.
Perkins, who has a BS degree in mathematics from Eastern New Mexico
University and an MS degree in computer science from Washington University,
is married and has two sons and five grandchildren. He lives with his wife
Linda in Irving, Texas.
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Ranger Governance, Ltd. ("Ranger") and certain other persons may be deemed
participants in the solicitation of proxies from the stockholders of
Computer Associates International, Inc. ("Computer Associates") in
connection with Computer Associates' 2002 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Information concerning such participants is available in Ranger's
preliminary proxy statement on Schedule 14A (the "Preliminary Proxy
Statement") filed by Ranger with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "SEC") on June 27, 2002.
STOCKHOLDERS OF COMPUTER ASSOCIATES ARE ADVISED TO READ RANGER'S DEFINITIVE
PROXY STATEMENT (THE "DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT") IN CONNECTION WITH
RANGER'S SOLICITATION OF PROXIES FROM COMPUTER ASSOCIATES STOCKHOLDERS WHEN
IT BECOMES AVAILABLE, BECAUSE IT WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
Stockholders of Computer Associates and other interested parties may
obtain, free of charge, copies of the Preliminary Proxy Statement and the
Definitive Proxy Statement (when available), and any other documents filed
by Ranger with the SEC, at the SEC's Internet website at www.sec.gov. The
Preliminary Proxy Statement and the Definitive Proxy Statement (when
available) and these other documents may also be obtained free of charge by
contacting Morrow & Co., Inc., the firm assisting Ranger in the
solicitation of proxies, toll-free at 1-800-607-0088.
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