Ken Berryman

Senior Vice President, Strategy

Ken Berryman is responsible for corporate development, strategy, and emerging businesses at Symantec. In his role, Berryman directs Symantec’s overall corporate strategy, leads Symantec’s mergers and acquisitions, corporate venture investing, and strategic partnerships. In addition, Berryman’s team leads several new businesses that include both early stage ventures and high growth, standalone businesses in dynamic new markets like virtualization.

Berryman was previously responsible for driving Symantec’s overall endpoint virtualization business, including software virtualization and streaming solutions. He also led product development for the NetBackup Product Platform within the Symantec Data Center Management Group and was responsible for the NetBackup, PureDisk, and Backup Reporter product lines.

Berryman joined Symantec from McKinsey & Company, where he was a partner in the Silicon Valley Office. During his ten years at McKinsey, he led the North American Software Practice, and was a well-known speaker at events such as Software and Enterprise 2007, and SIAA’s Enterprise conferences. Berryman served clients across the high tech industry on a range of topics including strategy, operations, and sales effectiveness.

Berryman holds both a master’s and doctorate in physics from Stanford University as well as a bachelor’s in physics from Harvard University.