Kevin Gavin

CMO

Lonergan Partners is pleased to announce that Kevin Gavin has been named Chief Marketing Officer of Talari Networks. The search was led by Mark Lonergan.

About Kevin

Prior to joining Talari, Kevin’s served as Chief Marketing Officer at ShoreTel (NASDAQ: SHOR), leading provider of unified communications platforms including business phone systems. Prior to ShoreTel, he was Chief Marketing Officer at GoBeam Communications, a VoIP-based hosted PBX service provider purchased by Covad Communications in 2004. He was also Chief Marketing Officer at InternetConnect, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Softnet Systems, Regional VP at Teligent, Corporate VP of Marketing and Product Development at Nextel Communications and Regional VP of Marketing at McCaw Cellular.

Kevin is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and attended the Executive Education Program at Stanford University.

About Talari Networks

Talari Networks’ WAN Virtualization solutions bring Internet economics to corporate WANs by transforming broadband and other affordable Internet links to deliver business-class reliability and performance predictability at consumer prices. Talari Networks delivers 30 to 100 times the bandwidth per dollar, reduces ongoing WAN costs from 40%–90%, and provides greater reliability than existing corporate WANS.

Kevin’s successful track record in building brand recognition and market demand for emerging and innovative technology companies will serve Talari well as we enter the next stage of exponential growth as the WAN performance market explodes.

Emerick Woods, President & CEO, Talari Networks

This is an exciting time to be involved in the WAN market, in particular the performance and reliability segment. I look forward to contributing to Talari’s continued success in helping businesses improve WAN reliability while increasing capacity and reducing costs.

Kevin Gavin, CMO, Talari Networks

Kevin is one of the world’s best technology marketing executives. He has special skills in building and supporting channel networks for companies like Talari.

Mark Lonergan, Founder & Managing Partner, Lonergan Partners