Executive Team

Kevin Johnson joined Juniper Networks in September of 2008 as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board. Prior to joining Juniper, Mr. Johnson served for 16 years in various leadership roles at Microsoft. In 2005, he was named President of the Platforms and Services Division with responsibility for the Server & Tools, Windows, and Online Services Business Groups. Under his leadership, Microsoft's largest division achieved record-breaking results with more than $20 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2008. Prior to that role, he served as Group Vice President of Microsoft's worldwide sales, marketing and services organization where he led the company’s global field organization of more than 30,000 employees and also oversaw corporate operations and IT functions in support of Microsoft's global business. Prior to Microsoft, he worked in IBM's systems integration and consulting business after earning a bachelor's degree in business administration from New Mexico State University. Mr. Johnson served as a founding member of the board of directors of NPower, a nonprofit organization that helps other nonprofits use technology to expand the reach and impact of their work, and as a member of the Western Region Board of Advisors of Catalyst, a nonprofit organization dedicated to women's career advancement. Mr. Johnson has been appointed by the President of the United States of America to serve on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). He also serves on the Board of Directors of Starbucks Coffee Company.

Scott Kriens is Chairman of the Board for Juniper Networks. An industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Juniper Networks from 1996 until September 2008, growing it to a multibillion-dollar company. Mr. Kriens served as a member of NSTAC (National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee), which is appointed by the president of the United States of America, and has been called to testify in front of Congress on a number of occasions to provide insight into the networking and telecommunications arena. He was honored for his entrepreneurial spirit with the 2000 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, and he was named one of Business Week's top 25 Managers in 2000. Mr. Kriens has received recognition for his achievements in the world of Internet technology, being named one of Forbes' Top Tech Execs in 1996 and one of the "25 Most Powerful People in Networking" by Network World in 2006. Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Mr. Kriens cofounded StrataCom, Inc. in 1986, and served as Vice President of Sales and Operations. He also held product management and marketing roles for Tandem Computers and management positions at Burroughs Corporation. Mr. Kriens obtained his bachelor's degree in economics from California State University, Hayward. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Equinix, Inc.

Pradeep Sindhu founded Juniper Networks in February 1996 and has held several central roles in shaping the company. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer, and is responsible for the company's technical roadmap as well as day-to-day design and development of future products. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for eight months when he founded the company. During that time, he played a central role in the architecture, design, and development of the M40 router. Before founding Juniper Networks, Dr. Sindhu was a Principal Scientist and Distinguished Engineer at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he worked on design tools for VLSI and high-speed interconnects for shared-memory multiprocessors. His key roles in the architecture, design, and development of these machines led to the commercial development of Sun Microsystems' first high-performance multiprocessor system family, which included the SS1000 and SS2000. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, as well as a master's degree in the same discipline from the University of Hawaii. In addition, Dr. Sindhu holds both a master's and a doctorate degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Robyn Denholm is responsible for the company's finance, planning, real estate, information technology, business process re-engineering, field operations, investor relations and internal audit functions. She also oversees the company's operational excellence programs, partnering with the executive team to ensure a uniform, efficient and scalable infrastructure for all of Juniper Networks. Ms. Denholm joined Juniper from Sun Microsystems, where she served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategic Planning. In that role, she was responsible for Sun's corporate operating system and the global sales and service administration function. She also led Sun's business transformation initiative. Ms. Denholm joined Sun in 1996 and served in executive assignments that included: Senior Vice President of Finance; Vice President and Corporate Controller (Chief Accounting Officer); Vice President of Finance; Director of Service Division; Shared Financial Services APAC and Controller, Australia/New Zealand. Prior to joining Sun, Ms. Denholm served at Toyota Motor Corporation Australia for seven years and at Arthur Andersen and Company for five years in various finance assignments. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia. Ms. Denholm holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Sydney and a master's degree in commerce from the University of New South Wales.

Michele Goins is responsible for all of Juniper's information technology strategies, systems, and resources. Prior to joining Juniper, she served in a variety of executive roles at Hewlett-Packard. During her 25 year tenure, she was responsible for leading several global and regional functions. Most recently, as the Vice President and Chief Information Officer for HP's Imaging and Printing Group (IPG), Ms. Goins was responsible for the definition and delivery of information technology and information systems in support of IPG and HP consumer business priorities. She developed global strategies and implemented deployment plans for IT to enable business process transformation. She effectively defined and implemented IT architecture, standards, guidelines, and processes, while driving the leadership, management, and development of the IPG business IT function. Prior to joining IPG, she also held senior leadership roles in sales, marketing and quality during her tenure in the Electronic Components and Personal Systems Groups. Ms. Goins holds a Bachelor of Science from Santa Clara University and earned an MBA from Northeastern University. She has been recognized as one of the top 50 Hispanics in Business and Technology by several Hispanic Magazines, including Hispanic Business in 2008.

Lauren Flaherty oversees the full breadth of the Juniper Network's global marketing activities. Prior to joining Juniper, Ms. Flaherty served as CMO of Nortel Networks from 2006-2008. While at Nortel, she created a fully integrated marketing function that represented all lines of business, and created Nortel's first Global Marketing Board, which enabled the development of marketing investments that were fully aligned to sales and the company's strategic objectives. Ms. Flaherty also led many of Nortel's strategic business initiatives, including the company's first global Enterprise campaign, leadership of the company's green marketing initiatives and its bids for sponsorship of the Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 Olympic Games. Prior to Nortel, Ms. Flaherty spent 26 years at IBM in a variety of product marketing leadership positions, including software and servers. She also led many company-wide initiatives, such as Solutions for a small planet, e-business, on demand business, and marketing targeting key segments for small-and-medium businesses (SMBs). Ms. Flaherty has been recognized three times by BtoB Magazine as one of the "World's Best Marketers" and was named to the Women's Executive Network Top 100 in 2007 and 2008.

John Morris joined Juniper Networks from San Francisco-based Pay By Touch, a pioneer of biometric payments where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Morris joined Pay By Touch following a 23-year career with the IBM Corporation, during which he served in a range of executive assignments, most recently as Vice President and General Manager of the Distribution Sector in the Americas region. In this position, he had responsibility for a revenue budget in excess of $4 billion and served clients across the Americas in the retail, consumer goods, airline, hotel, shipping, and gaming industries. Mr. Morris' background at IBM also includes serving on IBM's Global Marketing Council, as well as extensive experience in the Asian theater, including serving as Vice President and General Manager of the Distribution Sector for Asia Pacific, based in Tokyo, Japan. Prior to that role, Mr. Morris was the Director of Strategy in Asia Pacific, responsible for the overall strategy, marketing, sales, and support. He serves as Vice Chairman on the Board of Directors for ANMSoft, a private information technology service company headquartered in Mumbai, India, and as a member of the Advisory Board for Smart Technology Services, a private information technology services company based in Chicago, Illinois.

Mike Rose joined Juniper Networks in November 2008 as the Executive Vice President of Service, Support and Operations. Mr. Rose also served on the Board of Directors of Juniper Networks from July 2007 until November 2008. Most recently, Mr. Rose was the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Royal Dutch Shell, a major energy enterprise. At Shell, he led a 10,000 person service and IT group. Prior to Shell, Mr. Rose had a 23-year career at Hewlett-Packard (HP) in roles across finance, IT and field operations. He became HP's Chief Information Officer in 1997 and was named an HP vice president. In 2000, he was elected an officer by the Board of Directors of HP. Mr. Rose holds a bachelor's in economics from the State University of New York at Geneseo. Mr. Rose serves on the Advisory Board of SQLstream.

Kim Perdikou joined Juniper Networks in August 2000 and serves as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Infrastructure Products Group (IPG). She is responsible for driving IPG's strategy, innovation and product development. Prior to this role, Ms. Perdikou served as Juniper's Chief Information Officer for five years, driving the company's global information systems strategy. Before joining Juniper Networks, she was Chief Information Officer at Women.com, where she built the IT infrastructure and sales operations function. Ms. Perdikou was also Vice President of Global Networks at Reader's Digest for six years and held leadership positions at both Knight Ridder and Dun and Bradstreet. She holds a bachelor's degree in computing science and operational research from the University of Paisley in Scotland, and two master's degrees; one in education from Jordanhill College in Glasgow, Scotland, and a second in information systems from Pace University in New York.

Mark Bauhaus joined Juniper Networks in September of 2007 as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Service Layer Technology (SLT) Business Group. He is responsible for the strategy, execution, and innovation of the company's security, application acceleration, Unified Access Control, and enterprise routing product lines. Before coming to Juniper, he established Bauhaus Productions Consulting after serving for 20 years at Sun Microsystems in a range of executive level assignments, most recently in the position of Senior Vice President of Service-Oriented Architecture Software. In that role, Mr. Bauhaus led one of the fastest growing software segments at Sun, managing acquired SeeBeyond Inc. as well as Sun's identity management, infrastructure, and web services software operations. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President, Java Web Services, responsible for Sun's enterprise software business, and Vice President and Founder, Global Dot-Com, which delivered high-end software architectural consulting services. Mr. Bauhaus started his career as an environmental engineer for HP, and holds a bachelor's degree in business management and environmental systems analysis from the University of California at Davis.

David Yen, Ph.D., serves as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Fabric and Switching Technologies Business Group, for Juniper Networks. Dr. Yen came to Juniper from Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he served in a broad range of executive assignments during his nearly 20-year tenure. In the '90s, his team developed Sun's first- and second-generation multi-CPU SMP servers, which transformed Sun from a workstation company to a leading enterprise server company. After Dr. Yen took over Sun's Microelectronics group in 2001, he turned around Sun's declining SPARC business by focusing on execution and innovation. His group introduced the industry's first 8-core, 32-thread general-purpose processor in 2005 and developed it into a multi-billion dollar business. He also managed Sun's storage business for one year. Prior to joining Sun Microsystems in 1988, Dr. Yen was a cofounder of Cydrome, Inc., a mini-supercomputer start-up. He also served in engineering roles at IBM Research and TRW, Inc. Dr. Yen earned a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1973, and received an MS and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980. He also completed a General Management Program at Stanford Business School in 1993. Dr. Yen holds three U.S. patents.

R.K. Anand is Juniper's Executive Vice President of Foundation Technologies. In this role, he leads the strategy and development of critical technology leveraged by all the business units. These include the company-wide silicon efforts, unified network management, and JUNOS® Software, the operating system driving Juniper's competitive differentiation. Mr. Anand was one of Juniper's first employees, joining the company in 1996 as an ASIC designer and then taking on subsequent management roles, including Vice President of Hardware Engineering for the Infrastructure Products Group (IPG). Between 2004 and 2006, he took time away from Juniper to found Xsigo Systems, a Kleiner Perkins and Greylock Ventures funded start-up, where he served as Vice President of Engineering. Prior to joining Juniper, Mr. Anand held engineering and management responsibilities in the microprocessor division at Sun Microsystems. He holds a master of science in computer engineering from Syracuse University.

Luis Avila-Marco is Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development and is responsible for leading corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, as well as the development of key strategic relationships for the company. Mr. Avila-Marco is a seasoned corporate strategist. He joined Juniper from Scientific-Atlanta, a Cisco Systems, Inc. company, where he served in a series of roles in engineering, product management, business development, sales and marketing and strategy over the course of his 14-year tenure. As Vice President of Corporate Strategic Planning, he was responsible for leading all activities related to defining, communicating, and implementing corporate strategy. Prior to joining Scientific-Atlanta, Mr. Avila-Marco served for several years in a series of diverse roles in the cable industry in Spain. Mr. Avila-Marco earned a bachelor's degree in telecommunications engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) and an MBA from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Gerri Elliott is the Executive Vice President of Strategic Alliances. She joins Juniper Networks from Microsoft, where she was corporate vice president, Worldwide Public Sector organization, leading a team of more than 2000 sales and marketing professionals serving government, education and healthcare customers in more than 100 countries. At Microsoft, Ms. Elliott was also co-head of the company's North American subsidiary where she developed and implemented a global strategy to establish Microsoft's first industry vertical sectors including telecommunication, financial services, public sector, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, professional services, and media and entertainment. Prior to Microsoft, Ms. Elliott spent 22 years at IBM, where she held several senior executive positions in the U.S. and internationally.

Steven Rice joined Juniper in 2006 and leads the human resources organization that supports the company's operations worldwide. With more than two decades of senior HR leadership experience, Mr. Rice leads Juniper's people strategy, creating an inspired community of people able, committed, and empowered to achieve amazing success. Previously, he built a 25-year career spanning a range of HR leadership positions with Hewlett-Packard. His most recent position at HP was Vice President of Human Resources, Global Operations, with responsibility for more than 900 HR professionals around the world. At Juniper, Mr. Rice directly oversees all HR functions and programs: leadership and employee development, workforce planning, and total rewards. He also chairs the Juniper Foundation, the company's primary philanthropic vehicle, which supports children, education, and lifelong learning in the communities where Juniper has a significant employee and customer presence.

Mitchell Gaynor has served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Juniper Networks since February 2004. Mr. Gaynor is responsible for Juniper's legal matters worldwide, as well as all of Juniper's public policy, trade compliance, stock administration, environmental, safety and security functions. Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Mr. Gaynor was Vice President and General Counsel of Sybase, Inc., an enterprise and mobility software provider, and was Vice President and General Counsel of Portal Software, Inc., a leader in internet billing and customer management systems. In private practice, he was a lawyer with the firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in San Francisco and Palo Alto, California. Mr. Gaynor is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California's Hastings College of the Law.