September 23, 2002
Veritas Software CEO to give insight on preparing for economic recovery
Gary Bloom, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Veritas Software Corp. — a leading provider of data protection software — will speak Wednesday at the University of Washington.
Bloom talks at 8 a.m. in the Walker-Ames Room in Kane Hall on the Seattle campus. Breakfast will begin at 7:30 a.m. Bloom will discuss the importance of focusing on a company’s core strengths and investing for the future in the current economy.
With 5,700 employees in 36 countries and a revenue of $1.5 billion revenue in 2001, Veritas Software ranks among the top 10 software companies in the world, providing storage management and high availability software to 86 percent of the Fortune 500. A leading provider of disaster recovery solutions, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company assisted more than 100 companies affected by the Sept. 11 tragedies.
In 2000, Bloom was named CEO, president and member of the company’s board of directors. He became board chairman in January. Bloom joined Veritas from Oracle, where he was executive vice president.
Bloom’s talk is one in a series of breakfast lectures hosted by UW Business School Dean Yash Gupta. For a schedule visit http://depts.washington.edu/bschool/new/deans_breakfast.html
Each talk is open at no charge to the news media. Public admission is $12 per person. Please RSVP at (206) 221-5749 or goell@u.washington.edu
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For more information contact Gupta at (206) 221-5749 or ygupta@u.washington.edu; Jean Kondo, Veritas Software, at (650) 527-4842 or jean.kondo@veritas.com; or Stacey Collins, Applied Communications, at (415) 365-0222, ext. 261 or scollins@appliedcom.com
