What Happened?
Yaphank, NY-based KEMP Technologies hired Simon Roach as CTO.
About the Company
With over 30,000 worldwide deployments and offices in America, Europe, Asia and South America, KEMP Technologies is the industry leader in advanced Layer 2 – 7 Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) and application-centric load balancing. Since 2000, KEMP has been a consistent leader in innovation with a number of industry firsts, including high performance ADC appliance virtualization, application-centric SDN and NFV integration, innovative pricing and licensing models and true platform ubiquity that can scale to support enterprises of every size and workload requirement.
About the Person
Roach held R&D positions at Siemens AG, Siemens-Nixdorf and AT&T with a focus on operating system kernels and Internet protocols. As co-founder, joint-CEO and CTO of GMRS Software GmbH, he was responsible for the creation of a revolutionary new generation of flexible call processing technology and the successful growth of the business, leading to its acquisition by Brain Force AG in 2000. During a five-year tenure as Managing Director and Design Authority of Brain Force's Communication Networks Division, he was responsible for the creation of a portfolio of software products (including what is now the KEMP LoadMaster).
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