Anil Chakravarty

SVP Storage & Availability Management Group

Lonergan Partners is pleased to announce that Anil Chakravarthy has been named SVP Storage and Availability Management Group at Symantec.

About Anil

Prior to Symantec, Chakravarthy worked at VeriSign where he was director of product management, responsible for managing the entire product lifecycle for the company’s application and network security services. He also served as vice president of marketing at Logictier, a managed services provider. He started his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in developing e-business and IT transformation strategies.

Chakravarthy holds a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received the MIT-Japan Science and Technology Prize for his research. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India, where he was a chancellor’s Gold Medalist. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

About Symantec

Symantec was founded in 1982 by visionary computer scientists. The company has evolved to become one of the world’s largest software companies with more than 18,500 employees in more than 50 countries. Symantec provides security, storage and systems management solutions to help their customers—from consumers and small businesses to the largest global organizations—secure and manage their information-driven world against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently than any other company.

Placement Update

In June, 2012, Anil was promoted to SVP Enterprise Security Group at Symantec.