Gregory W Hughes

Greg Hughes is Symantec’s chief strategy officer, with responsibility for the corporate development, strategy, and new business incubation functions. In his role, Hughes directs Symantec’s overall corporate strategy and product portfolio decisions. He leads Symantec’s mergers and acquisitions, corporate venture investing, and strategic partnerships. In addition, Hughes’ team incubates Symantec’s early-stage businesses, such as the Symantec Protection Network, the company’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. An experienced line executive, Hughes has focused on growing new businesses throughout his career. Most recently Hughes served as group president of Global Services managing Symantec’s enterprise services operations. In this role, he was responsible for professional services, managed and hosted services, and technical support. In the last two years of his tenure, Symantec’s professional and managed services business grew from approximately $195 million to $350 million. Hughes’ services team achieved broad industry recognition, including receiving Service & Support Professionals Association (SSPA) awards for outstanding technical support. Hughes joined Symantec through the company’s merger with Veritas Software and led the integration of Symantec and Veritas’ services organizations to build a global team of thousands. Prior to Veritas, Hughes was a partner at McKinsey & Co., where he founded and led the North American Software Industry practice. Hughes’ team at McKinsey built the industry’s leading practice serving many of the world’s largest software companies. He has worked as a consultant to senior executives across a range of industries on information-based growth strategies. Prior to McKinsey, Hughes was an entrepreneur. He was the founder and CEO of Granite Microsystems, an industrial computer company, where he pioneered the use of flash memory for solid-state disk drives. Hughes holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business as well as a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.