Corporate Governance - Management

Jerry M. Kennelly co-founded our company in May 2002 and serves as chairman of the company’s board of directors and as president and chief executive officer. Prior to founding Riverbed, Kennelly spent six years at Inktomi Corp, an infrastructure software company acquired by Yahoo Inc. (YHOO), where he served as executive vice president, chief financial officer and secretary.

Before joining Inktomi, Kennelly worked for Sybase Inc., an enterprise software and services co... 

Steven McCanne, Ph.D., co-founded our company in May 2002 and has served as chief technology officer since September 2002. He’s also been a member of the company’s board of directors since May 2002. From May 2002 to September 2002, Dr. McCanne served as our president and chief executive officer.

Prior to founding Riverbed, McCanne served as chief technology officer for the media division at Inktomi Corp., and then as its chief technology officer from October 2000 to Mar... 

Eric Wolford serves as our executive vice president and general manager of the Products Group. He previously held the titles of executive vice president (January 2011 to December 2011), senior vice president (March 2005 to December 2010), and vice president (May 2003 to March 2005) of Marketing and Business Development.

Prior to joining the company, Wolford was the senior vice president of marketing and business development for netVmg, a network management comp... 

From November 2003 to February 2004, Gottfried served as chief financial officer at Voltage Security, a security software company. From June 1997 to March 2001 and from July 2002 to March 2003, he held various senior finance roles at Inktomi Corp., including senior vice president and chief financial officer. <... 

David M. Peranich was appointed as our senior vice president of Worldwide Sales in July 2006. From June 2004 to November 2005, Peranich was the chief executive officer and president of Centrata, a provider of IT service delivery management solutions. From May 2001 to June 2004, Peranich held a number of management positions at Siebel Systems (acquired by Oracle (ORCL) in 2005), most recently as vice president and general manager of Worldwide Alliances.

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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... 

Brett A. Nissenberg has served as our general counsel and vice president of Corporate and Legal Affairs since joining us in February 2005, and as secretary since April 2006. From October 1997 to January 2005, Nissenberg was an attorney with the law firm of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP, where he represented investors and public and private technology companies in venture capital and corporate financings, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, ... 

Prior to joining Riverbed, O'Farrell was a general manager at NetApp (NTAP), where he ran the company's technical applications business unit. His team was responsible for NetApp's NFS file services business and was tasked with accelerating growth in NetApp's core NAS mark... 

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... 

David Wu currently serves as our senior vice president of Research and Development. Previously, he held the role of vice president of Software Development. 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 ... 

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... 

David Olson has served as senior vice president of Operations at Riverbed for over 5 years. Immediately prior to joining Riverbed, Olsen was president and COO of Proxim Wireless (PRXM), preceded by a stint as CEO of iGo, a mobile power and accessory company.

Earlier in his career, Olsen was involved in nurturing technology companies on both U.S. coasts, beginning with Sun Microsystems Inc. in its formative years and then as Digidesign’s COO in the years bracket...