Francis deSouza

Senior Vice President Enterprise Security Group

Francis deSouza is senior vice president of the Enterprise Security Group at Symantec. In this role he leads engineering, product management, field enablement, business development, and operations for Symantec’s Endpoint Security and Management, Data Loss Prevention, and Information Risk Management businesses.

Most recently, deSouza served as senior vice president of Information Risk Management where he led Symantec’s compliance and security management, messaging security, and archiving businesses. deSouza joined Symantec through the company’s acquisition of IMlogic in February 2006. At IMlogic, he was founder and chief executive officer, building the company into a recognized leader in the rapidly growing market for instant messaging security with more than 750 customers across 23 countries.

Prior to IMlogic, deSouza served as product unit manager at Microsoft, directing a team in the development of the enterprise real-time communications platform, including instant messaging, chat, Voice over IP and NetMeeting. Previously, he founded Flash Communications, which quickly emerged as a leader in the corporate instant messaging space and was acquired by Microsoft in 1998.

deSouza graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.