Dr. Ajei S. Gopal has served as Procore's Chief Executive Officer since November 2025 and as a member of the Board since September 2025, having held the role of CEO Designate from September to November 2025. From January 2017 to July 2025 he was President and CEO of Ansys, Inc., an engineering simulation software company, and President and Chief Operating Officer from August to December 2016.
From 2013 to 2016, Dr. Gopal was an operating partner at Silver Lake Technology Management, where he was seconded as interim President and COO to Symantec Corporation in 2016. He earlier served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, HP Software at Hewlett Packard (2011-2013); Executive Vice President and General Manager at CA Technologies, Inc. (2006-2011); and Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Symantec (2004-2006). Earlier still he was Founder and CEO of ReefEdge Networks and held roles at IBM Research and IBM's Software Group, beginning his career at Bell Communications Research in 1984.
Dr. Gopal currently serves on the board of directors of Fiserv, Inc. and previously served on the boards of Synopsys, Inc. (July 2025-April 2026), Citrix Systems, Inc. (September 2017-October 2021), and Ansys (February 2011-July 2025). He earned a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University.