Kevin J. Kennedy

Who is Kevin J. Kennedy?

Kevin J. Kennedy is an American business executive. He has been president and CEO of Avaya Inc. since January 2009.

Kennedy holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University and an MS and a PhD in engineering from Rutgers University and an EMBA from the University of Michigan. Before joining the company, he was CEO of JDS Uniphase Corporation, and prior to that he had worked at AT&T 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.