- General
- March 13, 2019
- 4 minutes read
Avast CEO To Step Down
Avast CEO Vince Steckler Photo by Diarmuid Greene / Collision / Sportsfile Vince Steckler, the long-time CEO – since 2009…
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| Avast CEO Vince Steckler
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Vince Steckler, the long-time CEO – since 2009 – of cyber-security vendor Avast, is stepping down, the company announced on Wednesday. After 10 years on the job, Steckler will be replaced by Ondrej Vlcek, the company’s current President of Consumer Business. He’ll officially step down on June 30, but’ll remain available in an advisory role for another year.
As CEO, Steckler guided Avast from under $20 million in annual revenue to more than $800 million. He led the company’s notable acquisition of AVG technologies for $1.3 billion in 2016 and saw it through a successful IPO.
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| Avast incoming CEO Ondrej Vlcek
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Likewise, Ondrej Vlcek who’ll be replacing Steckler as CEO has been with Avast for over two decades. Starting as a developer in 1995, he rose to be CTO of Avast, and also architected the company’s cloud-based security network for a newly announced Internet of Things (IoT) security solutions.
The Consumer Business unit led by Vlcek is currently the largest business unit at Avast. Avast went public on the London Stock Exchange in May 2018, in one of the largest IPOs of last year. Other notable 2018 IPOs include Spotify, iQiyi, Pinduoduo, Pivotal, Farfetch, Docusign, Dropbox, Greensky, NIO, Sonos, Opera, Tenable, Eventbrite, SurveyMonkey, Bloom Energy, Pluralsight, Domo, Zscaler, Cardlytics and Zuora.
