ConSentry Names CEO

MILPITAS, Calif. -- ConSentry Networks announced today that Joe Golden has joined the company as chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors. Golden brings to ConSentry more than 28 years of experience in the telecommunications and networking industry.

Prior to joining ConSentry, Golden was a general partner and co-founder of Accel Partners London and served on the boards of 16 companies, including P-Cube, Kagoor, Icera, Gigle, and Ubidyne. Prior to Accel, he was a vice president at Cisco Systems and held various senior management positions including managing director of business development and strategic alliances (EMEA). Before joining Cisco, Golden was the chief operating officer and vice president of marketing for multi-service access solution vendor Ardent Communications, a Wu Fu Chen start-up acquired by Cisco in 1997.

“I was attracted to ConSentry because the vision of adding real intelligence to the network fabric has been talked about for years in the industry and ConSentry is the first to deliver on this vision with its innovative intelligent switching architecture,” said Golden. “I plan to lead the company to further expansion and growth in the enterprise switching market.”

ConSentry Networks Inc.