Brocade Appoints Kolon as Asia Pacific CTO

Brocade has announced the ap- pointment of Matt Kolon to the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Asia Pacific (APAC). In this new role, Kolon will be responsible for leading the company’s technology strategy and product roadmap within APAC. He will also help align technology initiatives and execution closely with customer needs across the region, particularly in the areas of network functions virtualization (NFV) and software- defined networking (SDN). Kolon will be based in Beijing, China, and report directly to Brocade Vice-President for APAC, Adam Judd. With more than 15 years of specialized industry experience in developing long-term technical strategies with customers and partners, Kolon was most recently the APAC Managing Director for Evolved Programmable Network business and CTO for Service Providers at Cisco. Prior to Cisco, he spent 12 years at Juniper Networks, holding various executive roles in customer service, sales and marketing, and systems engineering.