Francis deSouza
| Francis deSouza | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Francis Aurelio deSouza December 2, 1970 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B./S.M.) |
| Occupation | President & CEO, Illumina (company) |
| Board member of | Illumina (company), Citrix Systems from December 2014 to July 2016 |
Francis Aurelio deSouza (born December 2, 1970) is an American businessman of Indian-Greek heritage and is the current President and CEO of Illumina Corporation.
He was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to an Indian father and a Greek mother and before he was 5, his family moved to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In 1987, at age 16, he was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and moved to the United States. He graduated from MIT in 1992 with Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a minor in Economics.
Early in his career, he worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and then in management consulting. deSouza was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Flash Communications, a provider of corporate instant messaging that was acquired by Microsoft in 1998. Following the acquisition, deSouza joined Microsoft and became a product unit manager where he led the team responsible for the development of the company's enterprise real-time collaboration offerings, including instant messaging, chat, Voice over IP and NetMeeting.
deSouza next founded IMlogic, where he served as CEO and grew the company into the market leading provider of instant messaging security. deSouza joined Symantec Corporation through the company’s acquisition of IMlogic in February 2006.
deSouza served as President of Products and Services at Symantec until November 11, 2013. He led research, product management, engineering, customer support and operations for Symantec’s offerings, which generated $6.73 billion in revenue in FY11.
deSouza has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Illumina since July 5, 2016, and serves on the Illumina Board of Directors.
From November 2013 to July 2016, deSouza was President of Illumina, Inc., and a member of Illumina's Board of Directors. He was responsible for Illumina's business units and the core functions responsible for developing, marketing, selling and supporting the company's products.
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