All high achievers like a challenge – and judging from the issues confronting Nitin Maru, the new vice president and assistant general counsel for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at transatlantic software giant Computer Associates (CA), he is no exception.

Maru, who is based at the company’s UK headquarters in Datchet, took on the newly-created position after leaving rival US software producer Novell, where he was EMEA head of legal.