Hansang Bae
Chief Technology Officer

Hansang Bae is Chief Technology Officer at Riverbed Technology, responsible for guiding Company’s technology vision and strategy in the application performance industry, as well as SteelScript (open APIs) and Wireshark open source development. In his tenure with the company, Bae has held several executive positions including Chief Scientist leading the Strategic Technology Group of the CTO office and the Global Consulting Engineering team. Prior to joining Riverbed, Bae was a member of the Citi (Citigroup) Architecture and Technology Engineering leadership team. As one of the six global engineering leads, he was responsible for performance engineering, network management (NMS) tools, and capacity planning groups for all of Citi.

Mike Sargent
SVP, General Manager
SteelCentral

Mike Sargent is Senior Vice President and General Manager at Riverbed Technology. Sargent is an experienced global technology executive with a history of transforming and optimizing business innovation, performance and growth. In his current role, Sargent leads the Riverbed SteelCentral business unit which offers solutions that bring together end-user monitoring, network performance management, and application performance management to provide end-to-end application performance visibility for today’s hybrid IT architectures. Sargent has held leadership positions with CA Technologies, Oliver Wyman and Bain & Company.

Paul O’Farrell
SVP, General Manager
SteelHead and SteelFusion

Paul O’Farrell is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the SteelHead and SteelFusion business unit at Riverbed Technology. O’Farrell is responsible for aspects of product strategy and development of the company’s market-leading WAN optimization (SteelHead) and hyper-converged infrastructure (SteelFusion) solutions. Previously, he served as vice president of corporate development and strategy at Riverbed. In this role, O’Farrell was responsible for developing and driving Riverbed's corporate growth strategy, investments and new ventures. Prior to joining Riverbed, O’Farrell served as general manager at Network Appliance (NetApp), where he ran the technical applications business unit. His team was responsible for NetApp's NFS file services business and tasked with accelerating growth in NetApp's core NAS market. He also worked in the corporate development groups at NetApp and Cisco and as a strategy consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. O’Farrell earned a Bachelor in Engineering Degree from Trinity College Dublin and an MBA from London Business School.

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.

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.