Background
KENNEDY, KEVIN was born on August 13, 1955 in Long Island, New York, United States.
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KENNEDY, KEVIN was born on August 13, 1955 in Long Island, New York, United States.
Kennedy holds a Bachelor of Surgery in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University and an Mississippi and a Doctor of Philosophy in engineering from Rutgers University and an EMBA from the University of Michigan.
He has been president and Chief Executive Officer of Avaya Incorporated. since January 2009. Before joining the company, he was Chief Executive Officer of JDS Uniphase Corporation, and prior to that he had worked at American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell Laboratories, Cisco Systems where he became a Senior Vice President, and then as Chief Operating Officer of Openwave Systems. During his career he has been elected to the Board of Directors of the following companies/organizations.
Agility Communications, Canary Foundation, Freescale Semiconductor, JDS Uniphase, KLA-Tencor, Openwave, Polycom, Quantum Corporation, Rambus Synchron Networks.
In 1987, he was a congressional fellow at United States House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, and in 2010 President Barack Obama appointed him to the President"s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. From 1982 to 1984, Kennedy was an adjunct professor at Rutgers where he published papers on computational methods, data networking, and issues of technology management.
Kennedy is the author of "Devil in the Details: The Practice of Situational Leadership". Kennedy is the coauthor of Going the Distance: Why Some Companies Dominate and Others Fail.
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