Kevin Sheehan Email & Phone Number

Hanover, Maryland, Us

Hanover, Maryland, Us

After successfully creating and leading Ciena's initial Software Division Kevin returned to greater Ciena in the role of CTO of the Americas. In this customer-facing role, Kevin works with executives from existing and potential customers to understand their overall technical and business problems in order to deliver the overall "outcome" that these service providers desire. Kevin teams directly with Ciena Sales Leaders, Software Solution Architects, and Customer Executives to articulate and deliver sophisticated solutions for Software Orchestration, IP/MPLS networks, and the underlying Packet-Optical infrastructure. Solution development includes commercials for product and services solutions covering multi-vendor network management solutions including both virtual and physical elements and integration into OSS/BSS systems.

Hanover, Maryland, Us

As General Manager of Ciena's Agility Software division, Kevin led R&D, sales, and marketing. The division delivered early NFV and SDN high-value software products aimed at closing the "Agility Gap" between service providers and their key customers. Key areas of development include Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). In this position, Kevin identified Cyan Networks as an acquisition target to expand Agility's overall SDN and NFV software solution set. After the acquisition of Cyan, Ciena's Agility Division was significantly expanded and renamed Blue Planet Software Division. In this new role, Kevin is responsible for all Sales, and Solution Architecture teams for Blue Planet. This includes all customer field operations for software sales and solution design. The Blue Planet Division solutions include NFV, end-to-end service Orchestration, and SDN automation including use cases like SD-WAN, vCPE, and WAN Automation.

Hanover, Maryland, Us

Kevin joined Ciena in a critical global leadership role to further expand their solution and global customer footprint. The critical applications expanded included high-bandwidth innovative services and management for applications that included mobile backhaul and enterprise business services.* Landed several very large international accounts to create greater geographical diversity including: British Telecom, Liberty Global International, Bharti Airtel (India).* Expanded revenue and range of solutions with existing accounts such as AT&T (including winning "Domain 2.0" bid), Comcast, CenturyLink, AAPT, Mobily, and Kapsch.* Led creation and development of innovative award-winning platforms such as the PacketWAVE 8700

Norcross, Georgia, Us

After several years of record global growth and profitability, Hatteras was acquired by Overture Networks in March 2011. Following the acquisition, Kevin assumed the role of President with responsibility for Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Systems Engineering, Services and Customer Support. The combined company continued to grow in the exciting Carrier Ethernet Market and persisting as a market leader in Carrier Ethernet over Copper Switching and Aggregation and Ethernet over TDM.

Morrisville, Nc, Us

Kevin was named CEO of Hatteras Networks in October 2003. Prior to that he served at Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for Hatteras Networks. After being appointed CEO, Kevin led the creation and development of an entirely new product line leading the company from the pre-revenue stage to emergence as the world leader in the Carrier Ethernet product segment of Mid-band Ethernet. Along the way, Hatteras won numerous tier-one carrier telecommunications contracts and partnered with some of the largest and most successful telecommunications equipment providers in the world. Under his leadership, Hatteras has received more than ten, best-in-class global product awards including the prestigious "EOS Spotlight Best of the Best Award" at the 2008 SuperComm global industry event. Additionally, Kevin was awarded the 'Leading Light' award for Best CEO leadership in 2006 and the prestigious American Business "Stevie Award" in 2008 for Best Leadership in Telecommunications. Kevin is extremely proud to have led Hatteras from product idea to profitability during a tumultuous period for telecommunications. Highlights of accomplishments are:• Led the company from zero revenue to tens of millions of annual revenue with continuous annual growth, while moving from large losses to financial profitability with strong growth• Secured contracts with 2 of the Top 5 Telecommunications Carriers in the world, and successfully delivered product for multiple years to these accounts • Recruited additional world-class executives to the leadership team• Secured both short and long-term debt facilities for the optimal operation of the company• From 2009 to 2010 Hatteras' annual revenue grew at a rate greater than 50%

Kevin was recruited from Alcatel to Hatteras’ leadership team by Hatteras’ investment team. In this role he led the product definition, differentiation and creation process. This included full profit and loss responsibility and side-by-side fundraising with the initial CEO including raising $35M with an outside lead investor during the very lean venture period of 2002.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Kevin was Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and Business Development at Alcatel where he was a key leader for the company's DSL business unit in North America. During his tenure, he directly led the P & L management of the DSL business unit and the creation and development of new DSL products including the migration from the ASAM 1000 to the ASAM 7300. This led to expanding the company's market leadership position in data networking, securing over 58 percent of the worldwide market share for DSL in 2000. Kevin joined Alcatel via the acquisition of Packet Engines in 1998.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

At Packet Engines, Kevin served as Director of Product Management where he was responsible for product planning requirements definition and development leadership for the company's innovative line of award-winning gigabit routing switch products. Additionally he had responsibility for all P&L activities including pricing. Kevin was named as one of two “key men” by Alcatel in their acquisition of Packet Engines for $350 million in 1998. This exit represented a return of greater than 14x to the Packet Engines investors.

Noblesville, In, Us

Radford, Va, Us

Beme, Engineering

Ms, Technological Systems Management

Mba, Marketing