Nov 22, 2005 : Novell Appoints VP and CTO

📅 November 22, 2005 - Open-source software distributor Novell (novell.com) announced on Tuesday that it has appointed Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe to executive vice president and chief technology officer. He will lead Novell's technology direction, as well as the company's product business units. Dr. Jaffe will report to Novell president and chief operating officer, Ron Hovsepian.

Dr. Jaffe brings more than 25 years of technology and business experience, serving in positions at both IBM and Lucent Technologies. As president of Bell Labs Research and Advanced Technologies at Lucent Technologies, he established new facilities in Ireland and India, and served as chairman of the board of the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium.

He has advised the United States government on multiple policy imperatives concerning technology. In 1997 he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Presidential Commission for Critical Infrastructure Protection.

"Novell is well positioned to be the leader in open source and open standards-based technologies," says Jaffe. "With Novell's considerable technical assets, people and relationships in the industry, we will work to make the Open Enterprise a reality for organizations around the globe, delivering higher productivity, lower costs and a new way of serving the needs of business."

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