Brocade Appoints Brian Levy as Senior Director of Technology, EMEA

Industry veteran to lead regional growth and operational excellence, further strengthening the Brocade leadership team

Mobilk - Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced the appointment of Brian Levy as senior director of technology, EMEA. This newly created position is the latest in a series of high-profile new hires for Brocade as it further strengthens its leadership team, enabling the company to more effectively serve key customer segments such as tier 1 service providers and technology areas such as the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) markets.

Levy joins Brocade from Juniper Networks and bring with him decades of specialized industry experience from the data center networking industry. 

Working alongside Curt Beckmann, Brocade Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in EMEA, Levy is responsible for bringing Brocade’s vision for cloud strategy and virtualized infrastructure to the market. Levy will also be charged with providing insight and communicating product vision and direction internally and externally, to both customers and analysts.

Before joining Brocade, Levy served as Juniper Networks CTO Service Provider Sector EMEA, a role in which he supported the service provider sales organization and worked in collaboration with the development teams in order to bring new products to market. As the global lead within Juniper for SDN and NFV initiatives, he worked closely with customers, partners and development teams to introduce and advocate SDN in the industry. Levy has held many senior positions in the industry working for both suppliers and service providers. At HP he was the global CTO for their Media and Communications Business and he was the Group Technology Officer at British Telecom. 

“With 92 percent of senior IT decision makers admitting that their current infrastructure is not scalable enough to support next-generation applications , it is clear that we are, by necessity, on the verge of a major change in how we design, deploy, and manage network infrastructure,” commented Levy. “Brocade is a pioneering force in software-defined networking, with an impressive commitment to high-quality performance, innovation, and open networking standards. It is a great time to be joining the company. I am very much looking forward to working with the rest of the EMEA team and our customers to help turn the huge potential of new technologies such as SDN and NFV into a reality.”