Ajei S. Gopal

President & CEO at ANSYS

Dr. Gopal has been serving as the Company’s President and CEO since January 2017. From August 2016 through December 2016, Dr. Gopal served as the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer. He was appointed as an independent member of the Company’s Board of Directors in 2011, and served in that capacity until his employment by the Company as of August 2016. From April 2013 until he joined the Company, Dr. Gopal was an operating partner at Silver Lake. From 2011 until 2013, he was Senior Vice President at Hewlett Packard. Prior to that, Dr. Gopal was Executive Vice President at CA Technologies from 2006. From 2004 to 2006, he worked for Symantec Corporation, where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Earlier, Dr. Gopal served as CEO and a member of the board of ReefEdge Networks, a company he co-founded in 2000. Before that, he worked at IBM from 1991 to 2000, initially at IBM Research, and later in IBM’s Software Group.

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