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Gerhard Watzinger
Senior Vice President, McAfee Data Protection Business Unit
Gerhard Watzinger is senior vice president of McAfee's Data Protection Business Unit, where he is responsible for driving McAfee's worldwide growth in the data protection segments.
Prior to joining McAfee, Watzinger was chief executive officer (CEO) of SafeBoot Holdings BV, the world's largest developer of encryption software and management systems that allow large corporations to protect the integrity of data on their mobile devices. With vast experience in information technology and global business development, Watzinger successfully steered the SafeBoot business from a small owner-operated company to an internationally recognized IT security firm with Fortune 500 customers in more than 70 countries.
Watzinger previously served as a CEO at iGate, a publicly traded company, where he successfully built the company’s outsourcing and offshore businesses to several thousand of employees. His other managerial positions include serving as a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers consulting division and as a managing director for Cap Gemini International.
Watzinger has a degree in Computer Science.
