Sora Capital Corp. announced the appointment of former Microsoft Executive Greg Hope to the company's Board of Directors and Chair of the company's Investment Advisory Board. Mr. Paul Reinhart, President and CEO of the company announced the company has appointed former Microsoft executive and co-founder of Prologic Greg Hope to the board of directors.

Additionally, Mr. Hope will chair the company's Investment Advisory Board. Drawing on his more than 30 years experience in the software industry, Hope will provide provide technical leadership for the company's software investments, including hands-on mentoring and advice on business and technical direction. After a successful six year career with Geac Computers where he was lead developer on the Geac Financial System, American Financial System, and the Bank of America Signature Capture and Retrieval system, in 1984 Hope co-founded Prologic where he was co-architect and co-developer of PROBE, RBS and Ovation.

In 1995, Hope was recruited by Microsoft in Redmond, WA as Partner Architect and Product Unit Manager, in the Windows engineering organization building key components of the Windows Server and Tools business. Hope's "Ship It" awards include Transaction Server, VB5, NT4 Option Pack, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, SQL Server 2000, Visual Studio .Net and the .NET Framework. His other activities while with Microsoft included numerous cross company technical initiatives in Enterprise Computing, Schema and Programming models.

Hope also lead technical due diligence on the Great Plains and nCompass acquisitions and performed many keynotes and talks at industry conferences including a live TV appearance on CNN with Bill Gates. Hope is also co-inventor and patent holder on various products.