“Enterprises are facing unprecedented information storage demands against the backdrop of an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape which makes Symantec’s solutions and services extremely relevant to customers,” said Eric Hoh, vice president, Asia South Region, Symantec.

“Ajay brings extensive enterprise experience across a wide range of industry sectors which will enable us to continue to build strong customer and partner relationships in the Indian market,” he added.

“Security, storage and systems management are growing sectors as customers continue to grapple with how to secure and manage their information environments,” said Ajay Goel. “I’m very much looking forward to actively engaging with customers and partners to help them address these challenges.”

Today Symantec employs more than 2,800 staff in India, across R&D, sales, marketing and support. While Ajay will lead sales and business development, engineering functions across development centres in Pune, Chennai and Bangalore will continue to be led by respective business leaders.

Goel brings over 25 years’ engineering and sales leadership experience with some of the world’s leading multinationals, including Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems and Asea Brown Boveri. At Cisco Systems Goel was the senior vice president for the Industry Business, Strategy and Operations for India and SAARC, and also led Cisco’s Industry Business Council.

Goel holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, and is an alumnus of Stanford Graduate School of Business, the release added.