Venugopal Pai, who joined Riverbed in 2006, will take over the role where he will oversee the execution of the alliances program including jointly developing, marketing and delivering solutions to enterprise customers.

Pai has more than 20 years of experience with companies such as Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade and he oversaw the launch of the Riverbed Technology Alliance program, which is comprised of member companies whose solutions benefit from Riverbed WAN optimisation solutions.