Posted by San Francisco, USA: Riverbed has elevated COO Dan Smoot to the President and CEO position to drive the company’s next phase of growth. With this appointment, Smoot will replace and take from Riverbed CEO Rich McBee.
Smoot has over three decades of experience working in the tech industry. During this long span, he worked in senior roles at top tech companies including Salesforce, Cisco and VMware before he joined Riverbed in 2018.
Since then, Smoot has held several executive leadership roles in Riverbed. Most recently, he was the COO and led the company’s Worldwide Sales, Channels and Alliances, Sales Operations and Customer Experience, teams.
“Dan has been a stand-out leader at Riverbed and brings tremendous industry experience having held senior leadership roles at some of the world’s leading technology companies,” said Robert ‘Tre’ Sayle, Riverbed Board Member and Thoma Bravo Partner (Riverbed is a portfolio company of Thoma Bravo).
According to Sayle, Dan Smoot has an unwavering commitment to Riverbed’s customers and partners, an exceptional track record driving operational excellence and business results, and is a strong leader of people and culture.
“Dan is the right leader to take Riverbed to the next level and drive profitable growth for our business, and continued innovation to support customers and partners. I also want to thank our previous CEO, Rich McBee, who helped lead Riverbed during a critical time, including setting a strong foundation for the future and navigating the Company through a global pandemic,” added Sayle.
“I’m greatly honoured and excited to be Riverbed’s new CEO and serve thousands of amazing customers worldwide. Riverbed is focused on fueling our next phase of growth by delivering innovative and relevant technologies that help propel our customers’ businesses and enable them to fully capitalize on their digital and IT investments,” said Dan Smoot, President and CEO – Riverbed.
“With leading end-to-end visibility and performance solutions, Riverbed is in a unique position to help business and government organisations as they modernize and secure their networks, accelerate cloud and SaaS migrations and advance hybrid work environments as employees increasingly work-from-anywhere,” added Smoot.
Smoot holds a B.A. in Environmental Science from the University of California, Irvine.
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