As CEO and member of the Board of Directors, Kelly provides the strategic leadership and vision for Vyatta and drives it through to rapid execution. Kelly has a proven track record for growing companies based on open source in the systems, embedded and telephony industries. Before joining Vyatta, Kelly was the SVP of Strategic Operations at MontaVista Software, the world's pre-eminent embedded Linux supplier, where he led the strategic focus into telecommunications equipment and mobile phones. Today operators around the world such as NTT DoCoMo have network infrastructure and tens of millions of mobile phones in use that are based on MontaVista Linux. Prior to joining MontaVista, Kelly was Vice President of Marketing for Cobalt Networks, the dominant provider of open source-based server appliances for web hosting. After helping drive the company growth through an explosive IPO and beyond, he played a key role in driving its successful $2.3B merger with Sun Microsystems. Previous to Cobalt, Kelly was VP of Marketing for CacheFlow (Nasdaq: BCSI), directed worldwide marketing for Oracle's database products, and served in various product- and market-focused roles at NCR, Teradata and AT&T. Kelly holds a Bachelor's Degree with Honors in Marketing from Washington State University, and an MBA from Cornell University.

Robert Bays, Chief Technology Officer

Robert has been working in the networking industry since 1994. Prior to joining Vyatta he was the CTO at InfiniRoute Networks providing optimized long haul VoIP transit to international long distance providers. InfiniRoute was the genesis of a merger with his previous company, Proficient Networks, where he was a co-founder and held the role of Chief Scientist designing Internet route optimization technology. Before joining Proficient Robert held Senior Network Engineering roles at Telegis and Digital Island.

Anatoly Kaplan, Vice President of Engineering Operations

Anatoly Kaplan brings more than twenty years of software development and project/program management experience. Prior to joining Vyatta, Anatoly was Vice President of Application Development for IntelliRisk Corp where he was responsible for building next generation BPO Service system. At Proficient Networks, Anatoly was Vice President of Engineering, responsible for delivering network appliances for IP network optimization. Before that, Anatoly was Vice President of Software Engineering & Integration for Terawave Communications, an industry leader in multi-service optical access platform. Previously, Anatoly was Director of Software Development for Premisys Communications responsible for Network Management Systems and integration projects. Anatoly also led design and implementation of various software based products and services for MCI Communications, British Telecom and other major carriers. Anatoly holds a PhD from St Petersberg University, Russia.