Peter Leav

Peter Leav

Chief Executive Officer of McAfee

Director Since: June 2019
Independent
Box Committees: Compensation

  • President, CEO, and member of Board of Directors of McAfee Corp.
  • Former President, CEO and Director of BMC Software, Inc.
  • Former President, CEO and Director of Polycom, Inc.

 

He has served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors of McAfee Corp, a cybersecurity company, since February 2020. He served previously as President, CEO, and Director of BMC Software, Inc., a management solutions software company, from December 2016 to April 2019. Prior to joining BMC, Mr. Leav served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Polycom, Inc., a video, voice, and content solution company, from December 2013 through September 2016.

 

Mr. Leav was a director of Proofpoint, Inc., a security-as-a-service provider, from July 2019 until January 2020, when he accepted his current role with McAfee; and HD Supply, Inc., an industrial distributor company, from October 2014 to July 2017.

 

Additionally, earlier in his career, Mr. Leav served in variety of roles of increasing responsibility at NCR Corporation, Motorola, Inc., Symbol Technologies, Inc., and Cisco Systems, Inc.

 

Mr. Leav holds a bachelor’s degree from Lehigh University.

 

Mr. Leav was selected to serve on our Board of Directors because of his extensive c-suite and corporate governance experience across a range of publicly traded companies as well as his significant management, technology, communications and global go-to-market strategy and operations expertise.