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Viptela Names Russ Harris Senior Vice President of Operations
[December 15, 2016]

Viptela Names Russ Harris Senior Vice President of Operations


Viptela, the Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) company, today announced the appointment of Russ Harris as Senior Vice President of Operations. Harris will be responsible for building out and managing the company's global operations to support its rapid expansion in key markets around the world.

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Russ Harris, new Senior Vice President of Operations for Viptela will build out and manage the compa ...

Russ Harris, new Senior Vice President of Operations for Viptela will build out and manage the company's global operations to support its rapid expansion in key markets.

"Our faster than anticipated growth and projected market share gains over the next 48 months has created the need for a proven leader like Russ Harris to help us expand our global base of operations," said Amir Khan, CEO of Viptela. "Russ has extensive experience managing fast growing technology portfolios, establishing worldwide supply chains, implementing quality control standards and streamlining distribution. He will play a key role in scaling our business in 2017 and beyond."



Russ Harris has more than 17 years of executive experience heading up business operations, manufacturing and worldwide distribution. He joins Viptela from Breathometer, a global provider of breath analysis technology, where he was President & COO. As Senior Vice President, Operations at networking vendor Echelon (NASDAQ: ELON), Harris was responsible for manufacturing, materials sourcing, inventory management, logistics, quality, technical support, training and cost reduction for over 300 products and components. Before Echelon, Harris was Vice President of Operations for NetDynamics and Director of Operations for SGI. Harris holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

"I'm pleased to join Viptela and help the company become one of the industry's leading networking technology vendors," said Russ Harris. "To support high demand for our products my focus is to build high performance supply chains and distribution channels for both our enterprise and service provider customers, and scale operations in North America and worldwide."


About Viptela
Viptela provides Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology that virtualizes WAN infrastructure. The platform allows global companies to build carrier agnostic, policy-controlled and cost-effective WANs. Viptela has been deployed at thousands of sites by more than 25 Fortune 500 enterprises; and major carriers including Verizon (News - Alert) and Singtel are using Viptela to deliver managed SD-WAN services. The company has been named a Next Billion Dollar Startup by Forbes, 2016 Red Herring (News - Alert) Top 100 Company and CRN Tech Innovator. Viptela is backed by Redline Capital, Northgate Capital and Sequoia Capital. For more information, visit: viptela.com or follow us on Twitter (News - Alert) @viptela.


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