SAN FRANCISCO -- Riverbed Technology, the performance leader in application acceleration on wide area networks, announced today that it has appointed Marcus Chambers as vice president, EMEA. Chambers will drive growth across the EMEA region as Riverbed continues to expand its global operations and builds on its already strong success in the wide-area data services (WDS) market.

"Marcus will play a vital role in driving Riverbed's expansion in EMEA," said Jerry Kennelly, CEO and president of Riverbed Technology. "His many years of experience in the storage and networking area and strong relationships with enterprises, service providers and channel partners throughout EMEA will help ensure that Riverbed achieves its ambitious goals for the region."

Chambers has more than 18 years of experience in the IT industry, and comes to Riverbed with a proven track record of providing storage and networking solutions to the enterprise and service provider markets. He was previously the operations director for Cisco Systems EMEA's Storage, Optical and Wide Area File Services (WAFS) Group, where he was responsible for sales, marketing and channels to grow the SAN storage, optical and WAFS business across EMEA. Prior to joining Cisco in 2003, Chambers was European Northern regional director for Brocade. He also developed 3COM's business in Switzerland as general manager, and prior to this he held positions with Digital Equipment Corporation.

"Riverbed's WDS solutions offer customers the highest level of performance improvements for the broadest range of applications and services available today," said Marcus Chambers, vice president, Riverbed EMEA. "Riverbed's reputation and strong success in the enterprise market has been built on the strength of its products, and will help drive growth substantially in the EMEA market space."

Riverbed Technology Inc.