Ajei Gopal

Dr. Ajei Gopal joined our Board of Directors in July 2025. He previously served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ansys, Inc. from 2017 until Ansys’ acquisition by Synopsys. Dr. Gopal joined the Ansys Board of Directors in 2011, then became President and Chief Operating Officer of the company in 2016. From 2013 to 2016, Dr. Gopal was an operating partner at Silver Lake Partners, a leading private equity technology investor. His employment at Silver Lake included a secondment as interim President and Chief Operating Officer at Symantec. Prior to that, he served in leadership roles at various technology companies, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, CA Technologies, Symantec, and ReefEdge Networks, a company he co-founded. Dr. Gopal has served on the board of directors of Fiserv, Inc. since 2024 and the board of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University since 2022. He previously served as a member of the board of directors of Citrix from September 2017 to October 2021.