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Gary Kovacs named Chief Executive Officer of AVG Technologies
July 2013 by Marc Jacob
AVG Technologies N.V. named Gary Kovacs as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. Mr. Kovacs joins AVG from Mozilla Corporation, where he was most recently CEO and responsible for expanding the company’s desktop and mobile businesses.
Over the course of his 25-year career and prior to joining Mozilla, Mr. Kovacs was Senior VP of Markets, Solutions & Products at Sybase (acquired by SAP) and General Manager and VP of Mobile & Devices at Adobe Systems. He also held a variety of senior marketing, product management, technical and operating positions with other industry leading companies including Macromedia (acquired by Adobe), Zi Corporation (acquired by Nuance Communications) and IBM, where he was instrumental in creating products and strategies that drove long-term growth.
An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders will be held to approve Mr. Kovacs’ appointment as CEO and a member of AVG’s Management Board.
