Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Kevin A. DeNuccio is Violin’s President and Chief Executive Officer and has served as a Member of the Board of Directors since February 2014.

Previously, Kevin served as Chief Executive Officer of Metaswitch Networks Ltd., a telecommunications hardware and software company, from February 2010 until June 2012. Kevin remained a Member of the Board of Directors at Metaswitch Networks until joining Violin Memory, Inc.

Kevin served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Redback Networks Inc., a provider of edge routers, from August 2001 until its acquisition by Ericsson in January 2007 after emerging from bankruptcy in 2004.

From 1995 to 2001, Kevin held a number of executive positions at Cisco Systems, including Senior Vice President of Worldwide Service Provider Operations.

Prior to joining Cisco, Kevin was President and Chief Executive Officer of Bell Atlantic Network Integration, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bell Atlantic (now Verizon Communications).

Kevin has also held senior management positions at both Unisys Corporation and Wang Laboratories network integration and worldwide channel partner business.

Kevin previously served on numerous public and private boards of directors including Redback Networks, JDS Uniphase Corporation, KPMG consulting (BearingPoint), Netpliance (TippingPoint), Salesnet and SanDisk.

Kevin currently serves on the board of directors of Calix, GrndCntrl, SevOne and Northeastern University.

Kevin earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Northeastern University.