Scott Kriens

Scott Kriens is an American businessman. He is chairman and former CEO of Juniper Networks.[1]

Scott Kriens
Alma materCalifornia State University, East Bay
TitleChairman, Juniper Networks

Early life and education

Kriens received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from California State University, East Bay, in Hayward, California, in 1979.[2] A collector of European sports cars, Kriens, as an undergraduate, had repaired cars to meet expenses.[3]

Career

Kriens began his marketing career with Burroughs Corporation, which merged with Sperry in 1986 to form Unisys, and then worked for Tandem Computers, before becoming a co-founder of telecommunications equipment company StrataCom, Inc. in 1986. From 1986 to 1996 Kriens was vice president of sales and operations, until Stratacom was acquired for $4.5 billion by Cisco.[2]

Crosspoint Venture Partners subsequently recruited Kriens to lead Juniper Networks, naming him CEO in October 1996, where he remained until September 2008. Juniper's market success is largely credited to Kriens.[2][4][5] Juniper's stock rose from $57 per share, at the start of 2000, to an all-time high of $243 per share, in mid-October 2000.[2] In 2008, Kevin Johnson became CEO of Juniper, while Kriens remained as chairman.[6]

Kriens was ranked 463rd on the Forbes Executive Pay in 2006,[7] 478th in 2007[8] and 454th in 2008[9]

He was the U.S. Winner of the EY Entrepreneur of The Year Award in 2000 with Juniper Networks [10]

1440 Foundation and 1440 Multiversity

In 2010, Kriens, with his wife, Joanie, established the 1440 Foundation and the 1440 Multiversity retreat center in the redwoods of Scotts Valley, California.[11]

References
  1. "Scott G. Kriens". Forbes.com. Archived from the original on October 8, 2008. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  2. "Top Tech Execs: Scott Kriens". Forbes.com. December 8, 2000. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  3. "THE TOP 25 MANAGERS -- MANAGERS TO WATCH : Scott Kriens, Juniper Networks". Business Week. January 8, 2001. Archived from the original on April 7, 2001. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  4. "JUNIPER NETWORKS On the record: Scott Kriens and Pradeep Sindhu". SFgate.com. March 14, 2004. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  5. "Scott Kriens". Eweek.com. 2001-02-05. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  6. "Juniper Networks reports 40% profit rise Analysts upgrade networking firm's stock following sharp sell-off". Market Watch. July 25, 2008. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  7. "CEO Pay :Scott Kriens". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  8. "#478 Scott Kriens". Forbes.com. May 3, 2007. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  9. "#454 Scott G Kriens". Forbes.com. 2008-04-30. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  10. "Technology Guru Scott Kriens of Juniper Networks Named 2000 National Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. - Free Online Library". Archived from the original on 2015-04-12. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
  11. "Vision". 1440.org. 1440 Foundation. Retrieved 21 March 2019.


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