CA has named Dr. Ajei S. Gopal as senior vice president and general manager of its Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) business unit, effective immediately. He succeeds Alan F. Nugent, who recently was named CAs chief technology officer (CTO), and will report to Russell M. Artzt, CAs executive vice president of products.
Gopal joins CA from Symantec Corp., where as executive vice president and CTO, he was the global technology leader for the company, responsible for strategy, investments in emerging technologies, including the Symantec Research Labs, and the development of the patent portfolio. He also led cross-product shared services, such as localization and usability, and was responsible for managing the company's significant technical and product operations in India and in China. Earlier at Symantec, he was responsible for the Compliance business unit, and oversaw business development and mergers and acquisitions.
At CA, he will focus on extending the Companys leadership position in managing systems, networks, databases and applications for mainframe and distributed environments. ESM is CAs largest business unit.
Prior to Symantec, Gopal was chief executive officer and a board member of ReefEdge Networks, Inc., a wireless LAN systems vendor that he co-founded. Earlier, he was chief technology officer for IBMs Pervasive Computing Division, where his responsibilities included product and technology strategy, product architecture and development, and technology partnerships. He also worked in the research division at IBM, where he conducted and managed research in the areas of systems management, distributed and clustered systems, and operating systems.
[This is a significant fish for CA. --Ed].
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Taken from Information Security Bulletin.