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Full Name Francis Aurelio deSouza Residence San Francisco, California, United States | ||
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Francis Aurelio deSouza (born December 2, 1970) is an American business executive who is the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Illumina Corporation. . Prior to becoming President and CEO in July 2016 , he served as President of Illumina from November 2013 to July 2016. Before Illumina, deSouza was President of Products and Services at Symantec Corporation.
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- Building a higher order of security intelligence francis desouza rsa conference us 2013 keynote
- Illumina CEO Francis DeSouza Seeing Big Growth In Genomic Testing CNBC
- Early life and career
- Illumina Inc
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Illumina CEO Francis DeSouza: Seeing Big Growth In Genomic Testing | CNBC
Early life and career
He was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to an Indian/Portuguese father and an Ethiopian/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.
Illumina, Inc
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.
Other
deSouza served as a member of the Board of Directors of Citrix Systems from December 2014 to June 2016.
deSouza holds a number of patents in computer security and, as a recognized security expert, he has been widely quoted in the press including the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and Fox Business. deSouza was named to Fast Company's debut list of Fast 50 Champions of Innovation, was a finalist for the 2003 Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year Award, named to the Boston Business Journal's 5th annual 40 under 40 list, and selected for Silicon Valley Business Journal's 40 Under 40 list in 2007.