Chirantan “CJ” Desai is senior vice president of the Endpoint and Mobility Group at Symantec. In this role, he leads engineering, product management and related product operations for Symantec’s Endpoint Protection, Protection Suites, Mail and Web Security, IT Management, Endpoint Virtualization, Critical System Protection, and Mobility solutions. These products secure and manage millions of endpoints for organizations of all sizes globally.

Most recently, Desai served as vice president of engineering for the Enterprise Security Group where he led engineering for Symantec’s Endpoint Security, Messaging and Web security, and server security solutions. Desai joined Symantec in 2004 and has served in both product management and engineering roles.

Prior to joining Symantec, Desai ran product management for all product lines at Pivotal. He also established and ran product operations of India Development Center at Pivotal. Previously, Desai held various senior management positions in the Applications Development division of Oracle Corporation.

Desai earned a master’s degree in Computer Science and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign..