Mahendra Negi

Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer

Mahendra Negi is the chief financial officer and chief operating officer at Trend Micro and sits on the board of directors. In this capacity, he is responsible for global technical support, IT, finance and legal functions.

Prior to joining Trend Micro in May 2000, Negi worked at Merrill Lynch, where he spent six years covering Japan's Internet and software industries. Negi was ranked No. 1 in Institutional Investor magazine's list of Internet analysts in Japan. He was ranked No. 2 among software analysts by both Institutional Investor and the Nikkei Shimbun, Japan's top business newspaper. Negi won renown for his pioneering research in the Internet sector, especially for his September 1999 report, Internet Tsunami, a 140-page reference guide to Japan's Internet industry.

Negi began his career in the petroleum industry and then moved to commercial banking before joining Merrill Lynch. He holds a Master's degree in Physics from Nagpur University in India and a Master's degree in Management from the London Business School in England.