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Kevin Kennedy to Join Avaya Inc. as President and Chief Executive Officer
Charles Giancarlo to Become Avaya's Chairman of the Board
| Source: Avaya Inc.
BASKING RIDGE, NJ--(Marketwire - October 30, 2008) - Avaya Inc. announces that Kevin Kennedy
will join the company as president and CEO effective January 2009.
Kennedy is currently CEO of JDS Uniphase Corporation, and a member of its
board of directors. He will remain with JDSU until joining Avaya.
Avaya also said Charles Giancarlo will become Chairman of the Board when
Kennedy assumes the CEO position.
"Kevin Kennedy brings to Avaya a deep understanding of the enterprise
communications industry and extensive senior management experience," said
Charles Giancarlo, president and CEO, Avaya. "He will join Avaya at a time
when we are strongly positioned in our industry. Kevin will lead Avaya to
even greater success and further our strategy and execution to be the
premier enterprise communications partner for our customers."
Before joining JDSU, Kennedy served as Chief Operating Officer of Openwave
Systems, Inc. He also spent eight years at Cisco Systems, Inc., most
recently as Senior Vice President of the Service Provider Line of Business
and Software Technologies Division. Kennedy spent 17 years with AT&T Bell
Laboratories. In 1987, he was a congressional fellow to the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Kennedy is a member of the board of directors of Polycom, Inc. and
KLA-Tencor Corporation and a member of the Board of Regents of Loyola
Marymount University.
He holds a B.S. in engineering from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, as
well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Rutgers University.
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