San Francisco, CA — April 21, 2006 — Riverbed Technology, Inc., the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions, announced today that Michael R. Kourey has been appointed to the company's board of directors. Kourey joins Riverbed's founders, Jerry Kennelly and Dr. Steven McCanne, as well as Stan Meresman, Blake Modersitzki of UV Partners, Chris Schaepe of Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Jim Swartz of Accel Partners. Kourey currently serves as senior vice president, finance and administration, chief financial officer and as a director of Polycom, Inc.

"Mike brings to Riverbed a depth of experience in managing and growing technology companies that is rare in Silicon Valley," said Jerry Kennelly. "His many years of successful experience in both finance and operations should prove invaluable as we continue to grow our customer base."

"Riverbed is an exciting company with a compelling product," said Kourey. "With more than 700 customers worldwide in two years of shipping product, Riverbed addresses the broad range of applications that are important to businesses. I look forward to working with Riverbed as it continues to innovate and deliver high-quality solutions like the Steelhead appliance."

Kourey has served as senior vice president, finance and administration and as a director of Polycom since January 1999 and as chief financial officer since January 1995. He served as vice president, finance and administration of Polycom from January 1995 to January 1999 and as vice president, finance and operations from July 1991 to January 1995. Mr. Kourey holds a B.S. in managerial economics from the University of California, Davis and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University. Mr. Kourey is also a director of WatchGuard Technologies, Inc., a network security company, and serves on the advisory board of the Business School at Santa Clara University. Prior to joining Polycom, he was vice president of operations at Verilink Corporation.

Riverbed Technology, Inc. is the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local. The Wall Street Journal named Riverbed the winner of its 2005 Technology Innovation Award in the Network/ Broadband/Internet category. In addition, InfoWorld has named Riverbed's Steelhead appliance "Technology of the Year" in both 2005 and 2006, as the "Best WAN Accelerator". Riverbed's award-winning solutions are available worldwide from resellers who are members of the Riverbed Partner Network, from Riverbed OEM partners, or directly from Riverbed.

Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead and the Riverbed logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

###

For more information, visit www.riverbed.com.

Media Contact:

Kim Kapustka
(415) 344 4476
kim@riverbed.com

 

« Back to Press