Dan Kennedy Joins Corvil as GM, Americas and VP of Sales

DUBLIN, IRELAND--(Marketwired - Dec 18, 2014) - Corvil, the IT data analytics company for business in the Now™, today announced that Dan Kennedy has joined Corvil's executive team as GM of Americas and Vice President of Sales. Formerly at Riverbed Technology, Dan led an organization responsible for the largest global clients. Kennedy brings eighteen years successful enterprise sales experience to Corvil. Kennedy's appointment comes alongside other efforts by Corvil to accelerate growth, including the promotion of Elaine Giblin to VP of International Sales.

"With almost two decades in enterprise technology sales, Dan is a strong addition to our management team as we continue to grow our business in the Americas and around the world," said Donal Byrne, CEO of Corvil. "He joins our company at an exciting time of expansion, and his proven leadership experience with some of the world's largest and most respected organizations will accelerate Corvil's growth deeper into the Financial Markets vertical and beyond."

At Corvil, Dan is leading and building a world class team focused on helping customers leverage the full power of the rich and robust data flowing across the network to manage the health and performance of their real-time applications as well as to manage compliance, risk and overall data governance. 

"Corvil is really two steps ahead of everyone else in terms of how they are thinking about data. They know the impact this information will have on the future of business across every industry. As real-time data analytics platform with a proven history of success in the toughest Financial Markets environments, Corvil offers trusted information to see, understand, and act on business as it streams over the network," said Kennedy. "Corvil is in a great position to change data for all networked businesses and I'm primed to lead their sales efforts in the Americas."

While at Riverbed Technology, Kennedy led a sales organization focused on delivering performance solutions for the world's largest globally connected enterprises addressing strategic initiatives such as mobility, SDN, cloud computing, and big data. Prior to Riverbed, Dan was a VP at Cannon Group where he led all consulting resources as well as affiliated sales and delivery partners. He also held leadership positions at Sunesys and AT&T, as well as being named to AT&T's National Leader's Council for sales leadership, territory management, and revenue growth.

In addition to Kennedy's appointment as VP of Sales and GM, Americas, Elaine Giblin has been promoted to join the Corvil leadership team as VP of International Sales. She has been with Corvil since 2004 and is responsible for Sales in EMEA and APAC (including Japan). Dan and Elaine will work together to lead Corvil's team of sales professionals who are dedicated to ensuring Corvil's customers have the real-time operational intelligence to see, understand, and act on their business as it's happening, in the now.

About Corvil
Corvil is the IT data analytics company for business in the Now™. The Corvil streaming analytics platform transforms IT data into real-time operational intelligence to provide an order of magnitude improvement in the speed to see, understand and act on business as it's happening. Corvil provides the full picture of customers, business and IT infrastructure all interacting together in real-time. It does this by making sense of the raw IT data streaming through the network, enriching it with analytics and making it accessible, searchable and consumable. Corvil is built to handle the low-latency, high-performance and big data analytics requirements for the world's most demanding real-time businesses. It is used to monitor billions of transactions per day and is trusted to provide real-time operational analytics that powers decision and action in the Now.

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