CA names new head of Unicenter business
CA Inc. has appointed Ajei Gopal, Symantec Corp.'s former chief technology officer (CTO), to lead its enterprise systems management (ESM) business unit, the software company announced Tuesday.
Gopal's appointment brings to a close CA's recent round of executive reshuffling sparked by a number of high-profile managers leaving the company earlier this year. Those moves resulted in new positions for existing staff and some fresh appointees. Last week, CA appointed a new chief financial officer, Nancy Cooper, currently CFO at IMS Health Inc., who's set to join the company later this month.
Gopal is taking over from Al Nugent as senior vice president and general manager of the ESM business unit and will report to Russ Artzt, CA's executive vice president of products.
In June, CA appointed Nugent as its new CTO. At that time, Nugent said he'd also continue in his previous role as ESM head until a replacement was found.
ESM is CA's largest business unit and includes the vendor's Unicenter systems management software. Gopal's task at CA will be to continue to build out the company's systems, networks, database and applications management products for both mainframe and distributed computing in line with the vendor's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) strategy. EITM is a road map for simplifying and more tightly integrating CA's systems management and security software.
In June, CA appointed Al Nugent as its new CTO. At that time, he said he'd also continue in his previous role as head of the company's enterprise systems management business until a replacement was found.
As part of a company reorganization at Symantec, Gopal became CTO in March replacing Mark Bregman, who joined Symantec when it acquired Veritas. Gopal started at Symantec in August 2004 as senior vice president of global technology and corporate development, later becoming senior vice president of solutions, alliances and operations as Bregman was appointed CTO.
Gopal's career includes stints at Bell Communications Research and at IBM Corp. where he held a number of positions including CTO for the vendor's pervasive computing division.
He joins CA the day after the company finally filed its fiscal year 2006 annual report 10-K form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, two months after it was originally due. Due to past issues including the awarding of stock options, CA is restating financial results as far back as fiscal year 2002.
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