Gerhard Watzinger

Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Business Development

Gerhard Watzinger is responsible for guiding the McAfee global business strategy and development. Watzinger has helped accelerate the international expansion of McAfee and has directed the company through numerous successful mergers and acquisitions, which have resulted in record revenue growth and increased market share.

Prior to joining McAfee in 2007, Watzinger was chief executive officer of SafeBoot Holdings B.V., a leading enterprise security software vendor for data encryption and user authentication. With vast experience in information technology and global business development, Watzinger grew SafeBoot from a small, owner-operated company to an internationally recognized IT security firm with Fortune 500 customers in more than 70 countries.

Before SafeBoot, Watzinger served as chief executive officer at iGate, where he expanded the company's outsourcing and offshore businesses to several thousand employees. His other managerial positions include partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers' consulting division, and managing director for Capgemini International.

In addition to keynoting a number of events throughout his career, Watzinger is on the board of directors at Mastech, a publicly traded IT outsourcing company in Pittsburgh.

Watzinger has a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Technical University of Munich in Munich, Germany.

He has two children in college and resides in Florida with his wife.