Roger Levy

Roger Levy serves as the Senior Vice President of Strategic Development at Novell. He is responsible for cross-business unit strategy and offerings for the data center, end-user computing and identity and security management markets. Before Mr. Levy began his current position, he served as the General Manager of the SUSE Linux Enterprise business unit at Novell. Mr. Levy is also a member of the Novell Worldwide Management Committee.

Mr. Levy has over 25 years of experience in telecommunications, mobility and networking. He has worked extensively with companies such as AT&T and Lucent Technologies, Inc. in the the development and delivery of technology solutions for large enterprises. At Lucent, he held the position of Vice President, Product Realization, and was responsible for product delivery for four internal startups. These startups spanned the routing, mobile applications, enterprise security and service provider network security markets. In addition, Mr. Levy held the position of Vice President, Software Technology Center, where he led Lucent's open source initiative, driving the establishment of an open source policy, the creation of processes to leverage open source, and the definition of open source acceptance tests. His other assignments included Vice President of Global System for Mobile Product Realization, where he led a 1,500 person team across seven countries.

Mr. Levy holds a Bachelor or Science in physics from Lafayette college and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. He has also completed the Advanced Management Program at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.