Mark Lewis Board’s Director of Riverbed

Riverbed Technology announced that Mark S. Lewis has been appointed to the board of directors. Lewis currently serves as president of the Content Management and Archiving Division at EMC Corporation. As a Director on the Riverbed board, Lewis will provide guidance on the company’s corporate vision and technology innovations.

 At EMC, Lewis, 47, is responsible for accelerating the growth and expanding the market presence of EMC’s Content Management and Archiving Division. He also oversees the division’s product operations, new business development, global sales and marketing. Lewis joined EMC as Chief Technology Officer in July 2002 from Hewlett-Packard/Compaq, where he was vice president and general manager of Compaq’s Enterprise Storage Group, the second largest storage organization in the world after EMC. From 1998 to 1999, he led Compaq’s Enterprise Storage Software Business after serving for two years as director of engineering for Multi Vendor Online Storage. Prior to joining Compaq, Lewis spent 13 years in storage-related engineering and product development at Digital Equipment Corporation. He also holds eight U.S. patents in storage technology.

“Given Riverbed’s maturity and momentum, the time was right to enhance our board with additional industry expertise,” said Jerry M. Kennelly, chairman and CEO at Riverbed. “Mark is well-known in the industry for his aptitude and contributions to technology innovation. We value his opinion as we aim to maintain market and technology leadership with our core competencies and expand our business into adjacent markets, including public cloud computing and cloud storage. His expertise will add to the strength and vision that our other board members have provided our organization.”

The addition of Lewis, together with the appointment of Michael Boustridge, expands Riverbed’s Board of Directors to nine. Lewis and Boustridge join Riverbed founders, Jerry M. Kennelly and Dr. Steven McCanne, as well as Stan Meresman, Chris Schaepe of Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jim Swartz of Accel Partners, Michael R. Kourey of Polycom, and Mark A. Floyd of SafeNet, Inc.

“Riverbed is quickly reaching a critical stage as a focus on application, storage and networking goes mainstream inside governments and enterprises,” said Lewis. “All indications are that this company will continue its current growth trajectory and I look forward to bringing a new perspective at the board-level to help manage and leverage every opportunity for continued growth.”