Company Profile
Leadership
Kevin Johnson, Chief Executive Officer
Scott Kriens, Chairman of the Board
Pradeep Sindhu, Vice Chairman, Chief Technical Officer and Founder
Robyn Denholm, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Michele Goins, Chief Information Officer
Lauren Flaherty, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
John Morris, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations
Mike Rose, Executive Vice President of Service, Support and Operations
Kim Perdikou, Executive Vice President, Infrastructure Products Group and General Manager, Service Provider Business Team
Mark Bauhaus, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Service Layer Technology Business Group
Hitesh Sheth, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Ethernet Platforms Business Group
David Yen, Executive Vice President, Emerging Technologies
R.K. Anand, Senior Vice President, Foundation Technologies
Steven Rice, Executive Vice President, Human Resources
Spencer Greene, Senior Vice President, Customer Advocacy
Brad Kashani, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Customer Services
Luis Avila-Marco, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development
| Kevin Johnson, Chief Executive Officer |
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Kevin Johnson joined Juniper Networks in September of 2008 as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board. Mr. Johnson has been appointed by the President of the United States of America to serve on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). Prior to joining Juniper, Mr. Johnson spent 16 years at Microsoft, most recently as President of the Platforms and Services Division, an organization of more than 14,000 employees with responsibility for product development, marketing, and strategy for the Windows and Online Services businesses. Under his leadership, the division achieved record-breaking results with more than $20 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2008. In addition, Mr. Johnson focused on building Microsoft's position as an industry leader in online advertising and evolving its "software + services" strategy. He worked globally with small to medium-sized businesses as well as large consumer, service provider and enterprise customers. Prior to that role, Mr. Johnson served as Group Vice President of Microsoft's worldwide sales, marketing and services organizations and also oversaw corporate operations and IT functions that supported the work of Microsoft employees around the world. He started his career as a software developer and worked in IBM's systems integration and consulting business. He earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from New Mexico State University. He served as a founding member of the board of directors of NPower, a nonprofit organization that helps other nonprofits use technology to expand the reach and impact of their work, and as a member of the Western Region Board of Advisors of Catalyst, a nonprofit organization dedicated to women's career advancement. |
| Scott Kriens, Chairman of the Board |
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Scott Kriens is Chairman of the Board for Juniper Networks. An industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience, Kriens served as CEO of Juniper from its inception in 1996 until September 2008, growing it to a multi-billion dollar company with the clear vision to connect everything and empower everyone by advancing the fundamentals and economics of high-performance networking. Kriens is a member of NSTAC (National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee), to which all members are appointed personally by the President of the United States of America, and has been called to testify in front of Congress on a number of occasions to provide insight into the networking and telecommunications arena. He was honored for his entrepreneurial spirit with the 2000 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award and he was named one of BusinessWeek's top 25 Managers in 2000. Kriens has received recognition for his achievements in the world of Internet technology, being named one of Forbes' Top Tech Execs in 1996 and one of the "25 Most Powerful People in Networking" by Network World in 2006. Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Kriens co-founded StrataCom, Inc. in 1986, and served as its Vice President of Sales and Operations. He also held product management and marketing roles for Tandem Computers and management positions at Burroughs Corporation. Kriens obtained his Bachelor's degree in economics from California State University, Hayward. He also serves on the Board of Directors of VeriSign, Inc., and Equinix, Inc. |
| Pradeep Sindhu, Vice Chairman, Chief Technical Officer and Founder |
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Pradeep Sindhu founded Juniper Networks in February 1996 and has held several central roles in shaping the company, currently serving as Vice Chairman of the Board and CTO, where he is responsible for the company's technical roadmap as well as day-to-day design and development of future products. He served as Chairman and CEO for eight months when he founded the company and played a central role in the architecture, design and development of the M40 router. Prior to Juniper Networks, Sindhu worked as a Principal Scientist and Distinguished Engineer at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he worked on design tools for VLSI and high-speed interconnects for shared-memory multiprocessors. His key roles in the architecture, design and development of these machines led to the commercial development of Sun Microsystems' first high-performance multiprocessor system family, which included the SS1000 and SS2000. He holds a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, as well as a Master's degree in the same discipline from the University of Hawaii. In addition, Sindhu holds both a Master's and Doctorate degree in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University. |
| Robyn Denholm, Executive Vice President/Chief Financial Officer |
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Robyn Denholm joins Juniper Networks from Sun Microsystems where she served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategic Planning. In that role, she was responsible for Sun's corporate operating system, the global sales and service administration function and she served as the leader of Sun's business transformation initiative. Denholm joined Sun in 1996 and served in executive assignments that included Senior Vice President, Finance; Vice President and Corporate Controller (Chief Accounting Officer); Vice President, Finance; service division, Director, Shared Financial Services APAC and Controller, Australia/New Zealand. Prior to joining Sun, Denholm served at Toyota Motor Corporation Australia for seven years and at Arthur Andersen and Company for five years in various finance assignments. Denholm is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia and holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Commerce from the University of New South Wales. |
| Michele Goins, Chief Information Officer |
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Michele Goins is responsible for all of Juniper's information technology strategies, systems and resources. Prior to Juniper, she served in a variety of roles during her 25-year tenure at Hewlett-Packard. Most recently, as the Vice-President and Chief Information Officer for HP’s Imaging and Printing Group (IPG), Goins was responsible for the definition and delivery of Information Technology and Information Systems in support of IPG and HP Consumer Business priorities through the development of global strategies and implementation of deployment plans for IT to enable business process transformation. She defined and implemented IT architecture, standards, guidelines and processes, while driving the leadership, management & development of the IPG business IT function. Goins holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Santa Clara University and earned an M.B.A. from Northeastern University. |
| Lauren Flaherty, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer |
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Lauren Flaherty brings to her role at Juniper a strong combination of Enterprise and Service Provider marketing experience. Most recently, she served as CMO of Nortel Networks from 2006–2008. While at Nortel, Flaherty created a fully integrated marketing function that represented all lines of business, and created Nortel's first Global Marketing Board, which enabled the development of marketing investments that were fully aligned to sales and the company's strategic objectives. Flaherty also led many of Nortel's strategic business initiatives, including the company's first global Enterprise campaign, leadership of the company's green marketing initiatives and its bids for sponsorship of the Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 Olympic Games. Prior to Nortel, Flaherty spent 26 years at IBM in a variety of product marketing leadership positions including software and servers. She also led many company-wide initiatives, such as Solutions for a small planet, e-business, on demand business, and marketing targeting key segments for small-and-medium businesses (SMBs). Flaherty has been recognized three times by BtoB Magazine as one of the "World's Best Marketers" and was named to the Women's Executive Network Top 100 in 2007 and 2008. |
| John Morris, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations |
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John Morris joins Juniper Networks from San Francisco-based pioneer of biometric payments Pay By Touch, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer. Morris joined Pay By Touch following a 23-year career with the IBM Corporation, in which he served in a range of executive assignments, most recently as Vice President and General Manager of the Distribution Sector in the Americas region. In this position, he had responsibility for a revenue budget in excess of $4 billion USD (sales of hardware, software, consulting, outsourcing, services) and served clients across the Americas in the retail, consumer goods, airline, hotel, shipping and gaming industries. Morris's background at IBM also includes serving on IBM's Global Marketing Council, as well as extensive experience in the Asian theater, including serving as Vice President and General Manager of the distribution sector for Asia Pacific, based in Tokyo, Japan. In this role he had P & L responsibility for all of IBM's sales to the largest clients across the region in the retail and consumer goods industries. Prior to that role, he held the director of strategy position in Asia Pacific, responsible for the overall strategy, marketing, sales and support. He serves as Vice Chairman on the Board of Directors for ANMSoft, a private information technology service company headquartered in Mumbai, India and as a member of the Advisory Board for Smart Technology Services, a private information technology services company based in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Mike Rose, Executive Vice President of Service, Support and Operations |
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Mike Rose joined Juniper Networks in November 2008 as the Executive Vice President of Service, Support and Operations. Most recently, Rose was the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Royal Dutch Shell, a super-major energy enterprise. At Shell, he led a 10,000 person service and IT group. Prior to Shell, Rose had a 23-year career at Hewlett-Packard (HP) in roles across finance, IT and field operations. He became HP's Chief Information Officer in 1997 and was named an HP Vice President. In 2000, he was elected an officer by the Board of Directors of HP. Rose holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from the State University of New York at Geneseo, N.Y. |
| Kim Perdikou, Executive Vice President, Infrastructure Products Group and General Manager, Service Provider Business Team |
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Kim Perdikou joined Juniper Networks in August 2000 and serves as Executive Vice President of the Infrastructure Products Group (IPG). She is responsible for driving IPG's strategy, innovation and product development and also serves as General Manager of the Service Provider Business Team, a cross-functional unit comprised of product development, marketing, sales, support and business operations. This unit is tasked with the development of the business strategy and integrated plans to drive all elements of success for the service provider market segment. Prior to this role, Perdikou served as Juniper's CIO for five years, driving the company's global information systems strategy. Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Perdikou was CIO at Women.com, where she built the IT infrastructure and sales operations function. Perdikou was also Vice President of Global Networks at Reader's Digest for six years and held leadership positions at both Knight Ridder and Dun & Bradstreet. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Computing Science and Operational Research from the University of Paisley in Scotland, and two Master's degrees: one in education from Jordanhill College in Glasgow, Scotland, and a second in information systems from Pace University in New York. |
| Mark Bauhaus, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Service Layer Technology Business Group |
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Mark Bauhaus joined Juniper Networks in September of 2007 as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the service layer technology (SLT) business group. He is responsible for the strategy, execution and innovation of the company's security, application acceleration, unified access control and enterprise routing product lines. Before coming to Juniper he established Bauhaus Productions Consulting after serving for 20 years at Sun Microsystems in a range of executive level assignments, most recently in the position of Senior Vice President, service oriented architecture software. In that role, he led one of the fastest growing software segments at Sun, managing acquired SeeBeyond Inc. as well as Sun's identity management, infrastructure and web services software operations. Prior, Bauhaus was Senior Vice President, Java web services, responsible for Sun's enterprise software business, and was the Vice President and Founder of the Global Dot-Com consulting business that delivered global, high-end software architectural consulting services. Bauhaus started his career as an environmental engineer for HP and holds a Bachelor’s degree in business management and environmental systems analysis from the University of California at Davis. |
| Hitesh Sheth, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Ethernet Platforms Business Group |
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Hitesh Sheth joined Juniper Networks in May 2005 and brings almost 20 years of industry experience to the company. As Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Ethernet Platforms Business Group (EPBG), he has overall responsibility for driving the Ethernet switching business for Juniper. He previously led the Service Layer Technologies (SLT) Business Group at Juniper. He joined Juniper Networks from Cisco Systems where he led the initiative to establish Cisco in the Metro Ethernet market. Under his leadership, revenue for the Metro Ethernet business more than tripled in a four-year period and Cisco secured the number one market share position. During his seven-year tenure at Cisco, he held a number of senior management positions in general management, marketing and business development. Prior to Cisco, Sheth held executive and engineering management positions at Liberate Technologies, Oracle Corporation and The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO). Sheth holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin. |
| David Yen, Executive Vice President, Emerging Technologies |
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David Yen, Ph.D., serves as the Executive Vice President, Emerging Technologies, for Juniper Networks, leading the company's emerging technology initiatives at the intersection of computing and high-performance networking.
Dr. Yen came to Juniper from Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he served in a broad range of executive assignments during his nearly 20-year tenure. His team developed Sun's first and second generation multi-CPU SMP servers in the early '90s, which enabled Sun to transform from a workstation company to a leading enterprise server company. After Dr. Yen took over Sun's Microelectronics group in 2001, he turned around Sun's declining SPARC business by focusing on execution and innovation. Sun championed the processor industry by advocating Throughput Computing in 2003 and introduced the industry's first open-sourced, 8-core, 32-thread, eco-friendly general purpose processor Niagara - UltraSPARC T1 in November 2005. Niagara-based servers have grown to a multi-billion dollar business for Sun. Dr. Yen also managed Sun's storage business for one year.
Prior to joining Sun Microsystems in 1988, Dr. Yen was Co-Founder and Director of hardware development of Cydrome, Inc., a mini-supercomputer start-up, and served in engineering roles at IBM Research for manufacturing automation and TRW, Inc. for advanced processor development.
Dr. Yen earned a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1973, received an M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980 and completed a General Management Program at Stanford Business School in 1993. Dr. Yen holds three U.S. Patents. |
| R.K. Anand, Senior Vice President, Foundation Technologies |
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R.K. Anand is Senior Vice President of Foundation Technologies at Juniper Networks Inc., responsible for leading the strategy and development of critical technology that is leveraged by all the business units. These include the company-wide silicon efforts, unified network management and Juniper's operating system -- JUNOS® -- which drives Juniper's competitive differentiation and leadership position in high-performance networking. Anand was one of Juniper's first employees, joining the company in 1996 as an ASIC designer and then taking on subsequent management roles, including VP of hardware engineering for the Infrastructure Products Group (IPG). Between 2004 and 2006 he took time away from Juniper to found Xsigo Systems, a Kleiner Perkins and Greylock Ventures funded startup, for which he took on the role of VP of engineering. Prior to Juniper, Anand held engineering and management responsibilities in the microprocessor division at Sun Microsystems. Anand holds a MS in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. |
| Steven Rice, Executive Vice President, Human Resources |
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Steven Rice joined Juniper in 2006 and leads a Human Resources organization that supports the company's operations worldwide. With more than two decades of senior HR leadership experience, Rice leads the People Strategy for Juniper with the aspiration of creating an inspired community of people able, committed and empowered to achieve amazing success. Previously, he built a 25-year career spanning a range of HR leadership positions with Hewlett-Packard. His most recent position at HP was VP, HR, Global Operations, with responsibility for more than 900 HR professionals around the world. At Juniper, Rice directly oversees all HR functions and programs: leadership and employee development, workforce planning and total rewards. He also chairs the Juniper Foundation, the company's primary philanthropic vehicle which supports children, education and lifelong learning in the communities where Juniper has a significant employee and customer presence. |
| Spencer Greene, Senior Vice President, Customer Advocacy |
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Spencer Greene joined Juniper Networks in 1999 through the acquisition of Layer Five Inc., an intellectual property development and licensing company he co-founded, and serves as Senior Vice President of Customer Advocacy. Prior to this, Greene has held several management positions, including Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Vice President of Product Management for Juniper Networks IP core and edge router product lines. During his seven years with the company, Greene has led a number of engineering development teams. Prior to Layer Five, Greene was in the semiconductor and personal computer industries, holding marketing and engineering positions. Greene also worked in Yokogawa Electric's research laboratories in Tokyo, Japan. Greene holds Bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and French from Rice University, as well as a Master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He also holds numerous patents in the networking and graphics acceleration fields. |
| Brad Kashani, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Customer Services |
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Brad Kashani joined Juniper Networks in May 2005 as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Customer Services. With more than 23 years of experience in service, sales and product development, he is currently responsible for Juniper Networks' worldwide customer service organization including all service portfolios, education services, customer excellence/quality, technical support professionals, logistics and contracts. Prior to Juniper Networks, Kashani served as Vice President of Sales and Customer Service at Procket Networks. Subsequently, he spent nine years at Cisco Systems where he founded the Advanced Engineering Services organization, served as its Vice President of Advanced Engineering Services and later advanced to take the position as Vice President of Global Technical Services, where he managed more than 1000 technical professionals and delivered more than $1B of services to customers. Kashani also spent five years at AT&T and five years at Bell Laboratories. Kashani holds a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado and an MBA from UCLA. |
| Luis Avila-Marco, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development |
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Luis Avila-Marco is Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and is responsible for leading corporate strategic planning, as well as the development of key strategic relationships for the company. Avila-Marco is a seasoned corporate strategist, joining Juniper from Scientific-Atlanta, a Cisco Systems, Inc. company, where he served in a series of increasingly strategic assignments over the course of his 14-year tenure. Most recently, Avila-Marco served as the Vice President of corporate strategic planning, with responsibility for leading all activities related to defining, communicating and implementing corporate strategy. Prior to joining Scientific-Atlanta, Mr. Avila-Marco served for several years in a series of diverse roles in the cable industry in Spain. Mr. Avila-Marco earned a Bachelor's degree in telecommunications engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) and an M.B.A. from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. |