Compuware Says Peter Karmanos Jr Named Executive Chairman, Joseph Angileri President and COO

Compuware Corporation CPWR, the technology performance company, today announced that it has strengthened and extended its executive management ranks. The company will continue to benefit from the strategic guidance of co-founder Peter Karmanos, Jr., who will now serve the organization as Executive Chairman of the Board. Karmanos founded the company in 1973 and has lead Compuware through nearly four decades of growth, profitability and success. Among his many accomplishments, Karmanos grew Compuware to a successful IPO in 1992, led the organization to worldwide expansion beginning in the late 1980s and closely guided the design and construction of the company's state-of-the-art world headquarters in Detroit. Click here for a complete biography of Mr. Karmanos. "I look forward to collaborating with Bob, Joe and the rest of the Compuware executive management team and Board of Directors to create an unmatched period of growth for the company," said Karmanos. "In Bob and Joe, I'm confident that we have identified two senior leaders who will work with the rest of our talented team to benefit our customers, shareholders and employees."