Joseph S. Kennedy

Who is Joseph S. Kennedy?

Joe Kennedy was appointed President and CEO for Omneon Video

Networks in June, 2003. He is a seasoned chief executive experienced in

management, operations, sales/marketing, and engineering, with a

special interest in high-technology emerging markets. Over the past

several years, Kennedy has served as founder and CEO of a number of

successful technology companies. In the role of President and CEO for

Omneon, Kennedy is chiefly responsible for setting company direction as

well as managing all day-to-day company operations.

Prior

to Omneon, Kennedy held CEO appointments at Pluris Networks, a developer of scalable Internet routers, from June 1999 to March 2002.

Prior to that Mr. Kennedy was the founder and Chief Executive Officer

of Rapid City Communications, developer of routing switch technologies,

from February 1996 until that company was acquired by Bay Networks,

Inc., a provider of networking products, in June 1997, after which time

he served as President and General Manager of Bay Networks’ switching

products division until June 1998. He also held CEO appointments at Hughes LAN Systems (acquired

by Whittaker Corporation) and Phoenix Technology (acquired by Bridge

Communications). Before founding Rapid City,he had founded Phoenix Technology,

a LAN security company, which was sold to Bridge Communications, and was a member

of the founding team at Ungermann-Bass. At each of these companies, he has excelled at

providing market vision and operational leadership directly impacting

revenue growth and profitability. Prior to his CEO positions, Kennedy

was vice president of engineering at Ungermann-Bass and director of

engineering at Zilog.In addition to Omneon, Mr. Kennedy currently serves on the boards of

directors of Adaptec, Inc., a provider of storage solutions, and

several privately-held companies.

Kennedy holds a Masters (cum

laude) degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, both from the University of

California, Berkeley. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and Phi Beta Kappa.