Cumulus Networks has named Josh Leslie as Chief Executive Officer, taking over from the founder of the company, JR Rivers who will take on the role of CTO. Leslie who served for nearly one year as Cumulus Networks Vice President of Sales, brings a strong track record driving growth for enterprise technology companies.
Prior to joining Cumulus Networks, Leslie ran worldwide field operations at Instart Logic. He also spent six years at VMware where he held roles in sales, operations and business development as the company scaled from $100 million to $1 billion in revenue.
In January, Cumulus Networks which sells a version of Linux for data center networking hardware closed a $35 million round of funding.
JR Rivers, founder CTO, Cumulus Networks
I work with Josh every day, and through those interactions, I came to realize that he is the ideal person to lead Cumulus Networks. Having Josh at the helm will allow me to focus completely on my passion: technology and products that customers love.
Josh LEslie, CEO, Cumulus Networks
Three years ago, when Cumulus Linux was released, open networking was a compelling vision. Today, it is reality. With mega-scale production deployments and hundreds of production customers, Cumulus Linux has become the de facto standard network operating system in the data center.
