Riverbed appoints Paul Crighton as Vice President Sales for APJ Region

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Riverbed appoints Paul Crighton as Vice President Sales for APJ Region

SYDNEY – May 28, 2025 – Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, announced the appointment of Paul Crighton as its new Vice President Sales for the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region. Crighton will be responsible for driving Riverbed’s sales strategy and day-to-day operations in the APJ region, to deliver continued success across the company’s AI-powered Riverbed Platform, which includes industry-leading AIOps, enterprise observability, and acceleration solutions. He will report to Kris Luhrsen, Chief Revenue Officer, at Riverbed.

With more than 25 years of experience in sales leadership experience across the technology industry, Crighton has led teams to deliver outstanding revenue growth, business expansion, and customer success. Crighton joins Riverbed from Barracuda where he served as Managing Director. Prior to this, he held many senior sales leadership positions across NetApp; Blackberry; PGi; Symantec; and Intel Security/ McAfee. Crighton’s in-depth knowledge of the APJ market will enable Riverbed to expand its presence in the region, accelerate growth and deliver long-term success.

“I’m delighted to welcome Paul to Riverbed as Vice President Sales for the APJ region,” said Kris Luhrsen, Chief Revenue Officer at Riverbed. “As an inspirational, people-centric leader, Paul has a proven track record in leading sales organizations, navigating complex markets, and forging strong customer and partners relationship across APJ. As Riverbed continues to invest in its AI-powered Platform and solutions, Paul will be instrumental in leading the APJ team to help our customers further leverage the Platform and Riverbed AI capabilities at scale, delivering significant business outcomes and ROI.”

“I’m thrilled to be joining Riverbed at this really exciting time in the company’s journey, delivering next-generation AIOps and observability solutions for our customers, as they look to streamline and improve their IT operations, and deliver exceptional digital experiences,” said Paul Crighton, VP of Sales, APJ, at Riverbed. “The innovation agenda demonstrates the value customers are seeing in the Riverbed Platform. I look forward to working with our experienced team to execute on Riverbed’s vision, drive value for our customers, and further extend the company’s growth and market share in the region.”

In April, Riverbed announced a major expansion of the Riverbed Platform, with a set of AI-powered observability solutions that bring together Riverbed Generative, Predictive and Agentic AI, along with innovative data observability modules for unified communications applications, network packets and Intel® Thunderbolt™ and Wi-Fi connected devices. The latest launch follows several innovative and industry-first products delivered the previous year including: NPM+ (visibility into cloud, remote work and zero trust architectures), Aternity Mobile (industry first DEX for enterprise-owned mobile devices), Riverbed IQ Ops, Riverbed Unified Agent, and Aternity Intelligent Service Desk, among others.

Earlier this month, Riverbed introduced new and enhanced Acceleration solutions, vastly improving enterprise network performance, security and IT agility, and advancing our customers’ ability to succeed in the era of AI and massive data growth. Key innovations include RiOS 10, Riverbed’s acceleration software that now delivers new levels of performance for cloud, data centers and the edge; a new Riverbed SteelHead 90 series, offering improved levels of resilient networking performance; as well as the option to consume these solutions with Riverbed Flex, a new subscription offering.

About Riverbed

Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, helps organizations optimize their users’ experiences by leveraging AI automation for the prevention, identification, and resolution of IT issues. With over 20 years of experience in data collection and AI and machine learning, Riverbed’s open and AI-powered observability platform and solutions optimize digital experiences and greatly improve IT efficiency. Riverbed also offers industry-leading Acceleration solutions that provide fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere. Together with our thousands of market-leading customers globally – including 95% of the FORTUNE 100 – we are empowering next-generation digital experiences. Learn more at riverbed.com

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