Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> November 24, 2008

Dave Dewalt – Mcafee, Inc. (mfe)

DAVE DEWALT, President and Chief Executive Officer of McAfee, Inc., joined the company in April 2007. He has more than 20 years in the technology space, holding a series of leadership positions in some of the industry's most innovative and successful companies. Prior to McAfee, Mr. DeWalt oversaw customer operations and sales at EMC Corporation. His responsibilities included channels, alliances and partners, product sales, global accounts, vertical programs and field business operations. Mr. DeWalt also led EMC's content management and archiving software business. At EMC, Mr. DeWalt helped form the EMC Software Group, which in turn helped transform EMC from a hardware vendor to a complete IT provider. Responsible for a more than $4 billion business, Mr. DeWalt was promoted three times, ultimately becoming President of Software, Sales and Services. He joined EMC in 2003 when EMC acquired Documentum, the global leader in enterprise content management. As President and CEO, Mr. DeWalt led Documentum through nine consecutive quarters of growth, five record revenue quarters, and four successful acquisitions before leading the sale of the company to EMC for $1.9 billion. Prior to joining Documentum, Mr. DeWalt was founding principal and Vice President of Eventus Software. He also held various executive positions as Quest Software, Seque and Oracle Corporation. Over the course of his career Mr. DeWalt has helped build companies from startup (Eventus, Quest) to midsize (Documentum, Segue) to some of the largest (Oracle, EMC). A true expert in acquisitions, he led the sale of Documentum and Eventus, has been acquired three times, and has acquired more than 50 companies over the course of his career. Mr. DeWalt was named one of the 25 most influential executives in high technology by the readers of the industry publication CRN. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum on the issue of cybersecurity and keynoted at several technology industry conferences including Interop and Software 2008 and is slated to keynote at RSA 2009. Mr. DeWalt has served on the Board of Directors for MatrixOne, Serena, Polycom (as lead Director), Documentum, Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the Enterprise Software Roundtable. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum IT and telecom industry Board of Governors. As a recognized expert on mergers and acquisitions, Mr. DeWalt is the author of Making M&A Work. He is a frequent guest on international business programs, and appears regularly on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, CNN and Fox Business. Mr. DeWalt received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware. At the University of Delaware, he won a school-record three East Coast Conference titles, advanced to the NCAA championships three times, and was the first wrestler to be inducted into the Delaware Athletics Hall of Fame. Profile
TWST: We'd like to begin with a brief historical sketch of the company and

pictures of the things you are doing now.

Mr. DeWalt: First of all, we are excited here at McAfee. We've made a lot