Ajei Gopal Joins Silver Lake as Operating Partner

NEW YORK, April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing, announced today that Ajei Gopal has joined the firm as an Operating Partner based in New York. Mr. Gopal joined the firm's Value Creation Team and will work broadly across the firm's portfolio companies to drive operational improvements. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager in the IT Management Business Unit of HP Software, responsible for the product and technology portfolio as well as the overall success of the business.

"Ajei has over twenty-five years of experience in the software industry in a variety of business, strategy, product and technology leadership roles. We are delighted to welcome him to Silver Lake," said Charles Giancarlo, Managing Director and Head of Value Creation at Silver Lake. "In his new role, Ajei will contribute his unique insights in the areas of software and information technology to help drive a range of strategic and operational initiatives at our portfolio companies, and assist in evaluating potential future investments for the firm."

Before joining HP Software in 2011, Mr. Gopal was Executive Vice President of the Technology and Development Group at CA Technologies. Prior to that, he served as Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at Symantec Corporation. Mr. Gopal also co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of ReefEdge Networks, a wireless LAN systems company. Prior to that, he spent nine years at IBM in a variety of technology roles, including Chief Technology Officer for its Pervasive Computing Division. Mr. Gopal began his career as a member of the technical staff of Bell Communications Research's Applied Research Division.

"I am very excited to join Silver Lake and its talented team of operational and value creation experts," said Mr. Gopal. "I am looking forward to working across the firm's impressive portfolio of technology companies to help them better meet their business objectives."

Mr. Gopal is currently on the Board of Directors and a member of the audit and strategy committees for ANSYS Inc. He also served as a member of the Cloud Computing Steering Committee at the World Economic Forum between 2009 and 2011. He has been awarded twenty-three U.S. patents over the course of his career and is the author of numerous publications. Mr. Gopal holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay and a doctorate degree in computer science from Cornell University.

About Silver Lake

Silver Lake is the global leader in private investments in technology and technology-enabled industries. Silver Lake invests with the strategic and operational insights of an experienced industry participant. The firm has approximately 100 investment and value creation professionals located in New York, Menlo Park, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo and manages approximately $14 billion. The Silver Lake portfolio includes or has included technology and technology-enabled industry leaders such as Alibaba, Allyes, Ameritrade, Avago, Avaya, Business Objects, Flextronics, Gartner, Gerson Lehrman Group, Groupon, Instinet, Intelsat, Interactive Data Corporation, IPC Systems, MCI, Mercury Payment Systems, MultiPlan, the NASDAQ OMX Group, NetScout, NXP, Sabre, Seagate Technology, Serena Software, Skype, Spreadtrum, SunGard Data Systems, UGS, Vantage Data Centers, William Morris Endeavor and Zynga. For more information about Silver Lake and its entire portfolio, please visit www.silverlake.com.

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