Kevin J. Kennedy
Kevin J. Kennedy is an American business executive. He is currently a Senior Managing Director of Blue Ridge Partners, the management consulting firm exclusively focused on helping companies accelerate profitable revenue growth.
He was the president and CEO of Avaya Inc. from January 2009 to October 2017
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 Avaya, 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.
