Bangalore: Symantec has announced the appointment of Ajay Goel as Managing Director for Symantec in India. In his new role, Goel is responsible for driving the company's business strategy development and sales operations in the Indian market. "Security, storage and systems management are growing sectors as customers continue to grapple with how to secure and manage their information environments," said Goel. Today Symantec employs more than 2,800 staff in India, across R&D, sales, marketing and support. While Goel would lead sales and business development, engineering functions across development centres in Pune, Chennai and Bangalore would continue to be led by respective business leaders. Symantec said Goel brings more than 25 years' engineering and sales leadership experience with some of the world's leading multinationals, including Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems and Asea Brown Boveri.