Mr. Kennelly co-founded Riverbed in May 2002 and serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and as our Chief Executive Officer. Immediately prior to founding Riverbed, Mr. Kennelly spent six years at Inktomi Corporation, an infrastructure software company, where he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary. From June 1990 until joining Inktomi in October 1996, Mr. Kennelly worked for Sybase, Inc., an infrastructure software company, in a number of senior fina... 

Prior to joining Riverbed in January 2003, Wu served as director of Engineering at netVmg, a network management company. From 1999 to 2002, Wu served as senior engineering manager at Inktomi Corp., a provider of content delivery management software. Wu joined Inktomi following the acquisition of FastForward Networks in October 2000.

Wu holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley... 

Mr. Wolford has served as our President, Products and Marketing since October 2012. He served as Executive Vice President, General Manager of Products Group from January 2012 until October 2012. He served as our Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development from January 2011 to January 2012. He served as our Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development from March 2005 to January 2011. He served as our Vice President of Marketing and Business Development from Ma... 

Mr. Peranich has served as our President, Worldwide Field Operations since October 2012. He served as our Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales from January 2011 until October 2012. He served as our Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales from July 2006 to January 2011. From June 2004 to November 2005, Mr. Peranich was the Chief Executive Officer and President of Centrata, a provider of IT service delivery management solutions. From May 2001 to June 2004, Mr. Peranich held a number of... 

David Greene joined Riverbed Technology as chief marketing officer in March 2012 and is in charge of the go-to-market strategy for the growing Riverbed product portfolio.

Prior to joining Riverbed, Greene served as vice president of worldwide marketing for BMC Software¹s over $2B IT management software business. Prior to BMC, he held a number of executive marketing positions at Active Reasoning, a pioneer in data center automation, Exodus Communications, HiFive... 

Gordon Chaffee has served as our vice president of engineering since joining us in December 2003. From May 2002 to September 2003, Chaffee was the vice president of Software at netVmg, which was acquired in September 2003 by Internap Corp., an Internet service provider. From October 2000 to February 2002, Chaffee served as director of engineering at Inktomi Corp. He joined Inktomi following its acquisition of FastForward Networks where Chaffee worked from October 1998 to October ... 

Stephen R. Smoot, Ph.D. joined us in February 2003 and has served as our vice president of technical operations since May 2004. From September 2002 to February 2003, Dr. Smoot consulted for various companies in the areas of MPEG video, networking, and system design. From October 2000 to September 2002, Smoot was a senior director at Inktomi Corp. focused on MPEG, streaming video and networking. Smoot joined Inktomi following its acquisition of FastForward Networks where he served... 

Mark Day, PhD., came to Riverbed from Cisco Systems (CSCO), where he was technical lead for content networking product management. Dr. Day was previously senior scientist at SightPath, which was acquired by Cisco in 2000. Before joining SightPath, Day was a research scientist and assistant to the CTO at Lotus/IBM, where his work contributed to the creation of Lotus Sametime (now called IBM Sametime).

Day has chaired Internet Engineering Task Force (IE... 

Mr. Nissenberg has served as our General Counsel since joining us in February 2005, as our Senior Vice President of Corporate and Legal Affairs since January 2011 and as our Secretary since April 2006. He served as our Vice President of Corporate and Legal Affairs from February 2005 to January 2011. From October 1997 to January 2005, Mr. Nissenberg was an attorney with the law firm of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP, where he represented investors and public an... 

Mike Guerchon has served as our senior vice president of Global Employee Services since February of 2011. Guerchon was previously Riverbed's vice president of Employee Services from November 2005 until February 2011.

Before joining Riverbed, Guerchon was the vice president of Human Resources for Hollywood Entertainment, a $2 billion retail business with 29,000 employees. His previous experience also includes the role of vice president of Human Resources for Gu... 

Paul Brady has served as our vice president and general manager of the Cascade Business Unit since February 2009. Brady joined Riverbed through the acquisition of Mazu Networks where he was president and CEO. From 2001 to 2004, Brady served as president of Guardent, a network security company, which was acquired by VeriSign (VRSN). From 1999 to June 2002, Brady served as senior vice president at Exodus Communications. Brady joined Exodus through the acquisition of Cohes...