Novell taps IBM, Lucent veteran as CTO

Novell has appointed as its new CTO an executive who spent the past five years at Lucent and its Bell Laboratories arm and 20 years before that at IBM.

Jeffrey Jaffe, most recently president at Lucent's Bell Laboratories, will head up Novell's technology direction and lead the company's product business units, according to a Novell statement.

Reporting to the new CTO will be David Patrick, Novell's vice president for Linux, open source products and services, and Kent Erickson, the company's vice president for identity products.

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Novell has appointed as its new CTO an executive who spent the past five years at Lucent and its Bell Laboratories arm and 20 years before that at IBM.

Jeffrey Jaffe, most recently president at Lucent's Bell Laboratories, will head up Novell's technology direction and lead the company's product business units, according to a Novell statement.

Reporting to the new CTO will be David Patrick, Novell's vice president for Linux, open source products and services, and Kent Erickson, the company's vice president for identity products.

Markus Rex, Novell's CTO for Linux, open source platforms and services, will continue in his current role working for Patrick, while Carlos Montero-Luque will stay as CTO for identity, reporting to Erickson, according to a Novell spokesman.

At the end of last month, Novell named Ron Hovsepian, previously executive vice president and president of Novell's global field operations, as its president and COO, a role that hadn't existed at Novell since 2002.

In a 20-year career at IBM, Jaffe held various research roles including vice president of systems and software and corporate vice president of technology.

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