Novell Appoints Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Novell Appoints Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Novell, Inc. today announced that Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe has been appointed executive vice president and chief technology officer for Novell. Dr. Jaffe, 51, brings unparalleled technology and business experience from over 25 years at IBM and Lucent Technologies. He will be responsible for Novell’s technology direction, as well as leading Novell’s product business units. He will report to Ron Hovsepian, president and chief operating officer, Novell.

After receiving a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 1979, Dr. Jaffe joined IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center. During his tenure at IBM, he held a wide variety of technical and management positions, including vice president, Systems and Software Research, corporate vice president of technology, and general manager of IBM’s SecureWay business unit, where he was responsible for IBM’s security, directory, and networking software business.

In the past five years, Dr. Jaffe broadened his technology leadership at Lucent Technologies. As president of Bell Labs Research and Advanced Technologies, he established new facilities in Ireland and India, and served as chairman of the board of the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium. Dr. Jaffe has lectured on the importance of open source for the telecommunications industry at the MIT LIDS Symposium, the Rutgers CAIP conference, and Bangalore’s Indian Institute of Science.

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