Kevin J. Kennedy

Kevin J. Kennedy (born 1955) is an American business executive. He is currently[1] a Senior Managing Director of Blue Ridge Partners[2], the management consulting firm exclusively focused on helping companies accelerate profitable revenue growth.

Kevin J. Kennedy
Kevin J. Kennedy in 2009
Born1955
NationalityAmerican
OccupationBusinessman
Known forAvaya Inc.

He was the president and CEO of Avaya Inc. from January 2009[3][4] to October 2017[5]

Kennedy holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University and an MS and a PhD in engineering from Rutgers University and an EMBA from the University of Michigan.[3] Before joining Avaya, he was CEO of JDS Uniphase Corporation, and prior to that he had worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Cisco Systems[6] where he became a Senior Vice President, and then as Chief Operating Officer of Openwave Systems.[7] During his career he has been elected to the board of directors of the following companies/organizations; Agility Communications, Canary Foundation,[8] Freescale Semiconductor, JDS Uniphase, KLA-Tencor,[9] Openwave,[10] Polycom,[11] Quantum Corporation, Rambus[12] Synchron Networks.[13]

In 1987, he was a congressional fellow at United States House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, and in 2010 President Barack Obama appointed him to the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.[14]

From 1982 to 1984, Kennedy was an adjunct professor at Rutgers where he published papers on computational methods, data networking, and issues of technology management.[15]

References
  1. "Avaya's former global chief executive Kevin Kennedy joins Blue Ridge Partners - ET Telecom".
  2. "Home Page".
  3. "Kevin Kennedy to Join Avaya Inc. as President and Chief Executive Officer". Avaya. October 30, 2008. Retrieved 20 Aug 2011.
  5. "Kevin Kennedy Stepping Down, Will New Leadership Help Guide Avaya Back into Prominence?". www.techzone360.com. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  6. Duffy, Jim. "Shakeup at Cisco". Network World Fusion. Archived from the original on 2010-03-12. Retrieved 21 Aug 2016.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  7. "Cisco redux?". Network World. September 3, 2001. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  8. "Board of Directors". Canary Foundation. Archived from the original on 2011-09-11. Retrieved 21 Aug 2011.
  9. "KLA-Tencor Elects Kevin Kennedy, John Dickson to Its Board of Directors". KLA-Tencor. Retrieved 21 Aug 2011.
  10. "Openwave Strengthens Board With New Appointments". PR Newswire. October 15, 2002. Retrieved 21 Aug 2011.
  11. "Polycom Appoints Kevin Kennedy To Board Of Directors". Polycom. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 21 Aug 2011.
  12. "Rambus Elects Kevin Kennedy to Its Board of Directors". Rambus. April 8, 2003. Archived from the original on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 21 Aug 2011.
  13. "Kevin Kennedy Has Joined Synchron Board Of Directors". Synchron Networks Inc. 25 March 2002. Retrieved 10 Feb 2012.
  14. "Obama to appoint Kevin J. Kennedy as a Member of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee". Telecom News. 17 December 2010. Archived from the original on 20 February 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
  15. http://soe.rutgers.edu/story/kevin-kennedy
Business positions
Preceded by
Charles Giancarlo		 President & CEO
Avaya
2009–2017		 Succeeded by
Jim Chirico
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