AVG Technologies Names Gary Kovacs CEO

(RTTNews) - AVG Technologies N.V. (AVG), the provider of Internet, mobile security, privacy and optimization, has appointed Gary Kovacs as Chief Executive and Managing Director. Kovacs joins AVG from Mozilla Corp., where he was most recently CEO and responsible for expanding the company's desktop and mobile businesses.

Prior to joining Mozilla, Mr. Kovacs was Senior VP of Markets, Solutions & Products at Sybase and General Manager and VP of Mobile & Devices at Adobe Systems.

The company said an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders would be held to approve Kovacs' appointment as CEO and a member of AVG's Management Board.