Jeff Scheel is Symantec’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, Alliances & Strategy reporting to CEO Michael Brown. Jeff is focused on evolving Symantec’s enterprise security strategy, building a robust partner ecosystem, and supporting the company’s unified security strategy through M&A. Most recently, Jeff was VP of Business Development, Global Services and Cloud Solutions at FireEye (NASD: FEYE) where he developed co-delivery and alliance relationships for the incident-response services, managed services, and cloud-based product offerings. He also worked with corporate development to drive M&A strategy and evaluation of acquisition candidates. Prior to FireEye, Jeff was Mandiant’s VP of Business Development. Reporting to CEO Kevin Mandia, Jeff was the lead executive for alliances, business development and corporate development. Jeff managed the investment bank and the process that led to the merger of Mandiant into FireEye at the end of 2013.

Prior to joining Mandiant, Jeff was Vice President of Business and Corporate Development for HP’s Enterprise Security Products business unit. He joined HP through its acquisition of the leading SIEM provider, ArcSight, where he managed the process leading to the merger into HP. As Senior Vice President of Business Development at ArcSight (NASD: ARST), Jeff led teams that built alliance relationships with global SIs, ISVs and cloud security providers. Jeff also held leadership roles in the security providers Damballa, PassMark Security (sold to RSA) and Vocent Solutions (sold to PassMark).

Before becoming CEO of Vocent, Jeff was Vice President and General Manager of CRM Products at Siebel Systems, a leading eBusiness applications provider. While at Siebel, Jeff also served in roles as VP & GM of Alliances, VP & GM of the Sales and Mobile Products business unit and Director of Business Development. Earlier, Jeff was VP of Sales and Marketing at Metropolis (sold to Clarify) and also managed strategic accounts for GO Corporation and OEM strategic accounts for Oracle Corporation.

Jeff earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History with honors from Stanford University and a Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.