Management Team

Kelly Herrell - VP & GM, Software Networking Business Unit
Kelly provides the strategic leadership for Vyatta, leveraging more than 20 years of experience as a change agent in large markets for systems and software.  Initially an executive leading strategic product & marketing initiatives for Teradata and Oracle, Kelly has played key leadership roles in producing a series of successful disruptive IT companies including Blue Coat, Cobalt Networks and MontaVista Software. Kelly holds a Bachelor's Degree with Honors in Marketing from Washington State University, and an MBA from Cornell University.

 

Robert Bays - Sr. Director, Software Engineering/CTO
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.

 

Lisa Pavey - Sr. Director, Software Engineering
Lisa brings over 20 years of engineering leadership to drive Vyatta's product strategy and delivery. Prior to joining Vyatta, Lisa held engineering leadership positions at NetApp, Tesla Motors, Sun Microsystems, Vodafone, Sequent and DEC, where she started her career as a kernel engineer. She has a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Computer Science from the University of Reading, UK.

 

Sheen Khoury - Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Field Operations
Sheen brings more than 20 years experience building and managing world-class field sales and field operations teams. Before joining Vyatta, Sheen was co-founder and CEO of cloud management start-up Virtiv. Prior to that, Sheen led the global sales teams at Netscaler (Acquired by Citrix), where he was SVP of Worldwide Sales, and Exodus Communications, where he was SVP of Strategic Sales. He formulated, implemented, and managed the worldwide sales and global account teams at Aerohive Networks as EVP of Sales and Operations , and at Good Technology as the first VP of Sales. Previously, Sheen has held sales executive positions with Primary Knowledge, Genuity Inc. and Oracle Corporation.

 

Marion Smith - Vice President Global Operations and Corporate Development
Marion has more than 20 years experience building and managing emerging companies. He is a veteran of start-up ventures and board level decision-making, as well as a successful corporate manager and team builder. Prior to Vyatta, Marion built four companies from start-up to commercial operations, including building Inktomi Corporation from a 6-person start up to a 500 employee publicly traded company with a peak market-cap of $25 Billion in 2000. In addition to Inktomi, Marion has served in executive roles at a number of companies, including: Renewvia Energy Corporation, Micron Misting and e-lingo. Marion holds a B.S. in Economics from Georgia State University.