Air Force Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vautrinot and UBS Wealth Management Americas executive Anita Sands have been nominated to the board of directors at Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC).
They will serve as independent board members if elected at Symantec’s annual meeting of stockholders on Oct. 22, the company announced Wednesday.
“We look forward to the important new perspectives they will bring to help us enable people, businesses and countries around the world to protect and manage their digital information, ” said Symantec board chairman Daniel Schulman.
Vautrinot plans to step down Oct. 1 as commander of the 24th Air Force, where she leads a group of 14, 000 cyber workers and manages a $2.8 billion annual budget.
She has held leadership roles in strategic security, cyber command and space operations during her service in the military.
Previously, Vautrinot earned a National Security Fellowship at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Sands serves as a group managing director, head of change leadership and an executive committee member at UBS and will be leaving the firm in the coming months.
