Jerry M. Kennelly
Chairman and CEO

Jerry M. Kennelly co-founded Riverbed Technology in May 2002 and serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. In just 10 years, Kennelly helped guide Riverbed from start-up to the market leader in application performance infrastructure, surpassing $1 billion in annual revenue. Prior to founding Riverbed, Kennelly spent six years at Inktomi Corporation, an infrastructure software company, where he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary. Prior to joining Inktomi, Kennelly held several executive positions in finance, operations, sales and marketing for companies including Sybase, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard.

Paul Mountford
Chief Sales Officer

Paul Mountford is Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer at Riverbed Technology, overseeing the Worldwide Sales, Channel, Sales Operations and SE teams. Mountford brings to Riverbed 30 years of leadership experience in the technology sector, including data center and virtualization, network and application infrastructure, collaboration and mobile devices. Mountford spent 16 years at Cisco, with roles that included running Cisco’s $34 billion Enterprise business, initiating the company’s Emerging Markets business, and rebuilding and running Cisco’s channel partner program. He was most recently CEO of Sentillian, a New York-based web intelligence startup focused on monitoring publicly shared content. Prior to joining Cisco, Mountford owned a channel development consultancy where he helped US-based companies develop successful channel strategies for successfully entering international markets.