Symantec appoints Rajan as India CTO

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Bangalore: Symantec announced the appointment of Basant Rajan as the Chief
Technology Officer (CTO) for its Centers of Innovation in India. Rajan will be
in charge of the Symantec Research Labs (SRL) and Advanced Concept Group (ACG)
projects in India.

He will also work closely with government agencies in the security and
compliance domains and interact with customers on technology strategy.

"India is a hotbed for engineering talent. The new role gives me an
exciting opportunity to foster knowledge sharing within this talent base and be
an "activator" of technology for Symantec and reach out to the
technical community in India," said Rajan.

"Symantec recognizes the technology talent in India and has appointed a
CTO to cultivate and harness this potential," said Mark Bregman, executive
vice president and chief technology officer, Symantec. Basant has had a long and
distinguished career at Symantec, having joined Veritas Software as senior
developer in 1997. During this period he has filed 12 patents in his name.

India is one of Symantec's largest R&D and engineering sites with a
headcount of over 2,200 in Pune and an additional 1,000 who will be recruited in
its recently opened center in Chennai.