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Thursday, January 20, 2011

ESET Appoints New Global CEO

ESET has announced the appointment of a new Global CEO, Richard Marko. Marko, a company co-owner and previously the companys Chief Technology Officer, succeeds Miroslav Trnka, one of ESETs founders, in the position.

Based at ESET global headquarters in Bratislava, Slovakia, Marko will lead the worldwide market development of the company and its subsidiaries. Miroslav Trnka will maintain his position on ESETs board, and Pavol Luka, ESETs former CIO, will serve as the new chief technology officer.

Ever since we started in this business more than two decades ago, the focus has been and will remain on producing high quality technology and products. I intend to continue on this path as CEO, said Richard Marko, Global CEO, ESET.

Marko is a graduate of Information Systems Department, Slovak Technical University in Kosice (1996). He began his career with ESET during his college studies and is one of the co-authors of the ESET NOD32 Antivirus scanning engine. Initially, he held the post of chief architect of the scanning core and in 2008 became technology director. His works on antivirus have been published extensively at home and abroad. He has also given numerous lectures on heuristic algorithms at conferences like Virus Bulletin and AVAR.

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