Cybersecurity firm McAfee undergoes a shake-up, Peter Leav steps in as the new CEO

McAfee was started in 1987 by its eponymous founder John McAfee. The cybersecurity pioneer was found dead last year in a Spanish prison cell as he awaited extradition to the US on tax evasion and money laundering charges. John McAfee resigned from his namesake company in 1994, a year after taking it public.

McAfee also turned to Ropes & Gray last year for outside counsel on the sale of its enterprise business in a $4 billion all-cash deal to private equity firm Symphony Technology Group, which in a separate transaction paid $1.2 billion to acquire the product business of fellow cybersecurity company FireEye Inc.

Cybersecurity firm McAfee names new CEO

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