News Release
Symantec Names New Senior Vice President Of Worldwide Sales
CUPERTINO, Calif. – 20 January, 2004 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC), the world leader in Internet security, today
announced the appointment of Thomas W. Kendra as senior vice president of worldwide sales. Kendra will be responsible
for providing sales leadership to the company’s four regions: Asia Pacific; Europe, Middle East and Africa; Japan; and
the Americas. He succeeds Dieter Giesbrecht who has been named head of Symantec’s Enterprise Administration business
unit.
Kendra joins Symantec after a 26-year career at IBM, where he was most recently responsible for worldwide competitive
sales. Prior to this position, he was the Vice President of Worldwide Server Sales, growing it to a US $13 billion a
year business. From 1999 to 2001, Kendra lived in Tokyo, where he was responsible for IBM’s software business in Asia
Pacific including sales, services, and channel operations. He assumed that job after a very successful run as the Vice
President of Sales and Marketing for IBM’s Database Division.
“Over the past few years, Symantec has been evolving from transaction selling to building long-term customer
relationships as the company moved from providing point products to enterprise-wide security solutions,” said John
Schwarz, Symantec president and chief operating officer. “Tom’s global sales experience, along with his enterprise
background in leading multi-billion dollar sales organisations, will help us continue to align our company to best meet
the needs of our diverse customers and channel partners.”
Kendra received a bachelor of arts in business administration from Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.
About Symantec
Symantec, the world leader in Internet security technology, provides a broad range of content and network security
software and appliance solutions to individuals, enterprises and service providers. The company is a leading provider of
client, gateway and server security solutions for virus protection, firewall and virtual private network, vulnerability
management, intrusion detection, Internet content and e-mail filtering, remote management technologies and security
services to enterprises and service providers around the world. Symantec’s Norton brand of consumer security products is
a leader in worldwide retail sales and industry awards. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has worldwide
operations in 36 countries. For more information, please visit www.symantec.com.
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