Scott Kriens is an American businessman. He is chairman and former CEO of

Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The company develops and markets networking products, including routers, switches, network management software, network security products, ...

Early life and education

Kriens received his

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from

California State University, East Bay California State University, East Bay (Cal State East Bay, CSU East Bay, or CSUEB) is a public university in Hayward, California. The university is part of the 23-campus California State University system and offers 136 undergraduate and 60 pos ...

, in Hayward, California, in 1979. A collector of European sports cars, Kriens, as an undergraduate, had repaired cars to meet expenses.

Career

Kriens began his marketing career with

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, which merged with Sperry in 1986 to form

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, and then worked for

Tandem Computers Tandem Computers, Inc. was the dominant manufacturer of fault-tolerant computer systems for Automated teller machine, ATM networks, banks, stock exchanges, telephone switching centers, and other similar commercial transaction processing applicati ...

, before becoming a co-founder of telecommunications equipment company

StrataCom StrataCom, Inc. was a supplier of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Frame Relay high-speed wide area network (WAN) switching equipment. StrataCom was founded in Cupertino, California, United States, in January 1986, by 26 former employees of t ...

, Inc. in 1986. From 1986 to 1996 Kriens was vice president of sales and operations, until Stratacom was acquired for $4.5 billion by

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. 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. 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. In 2008, Kevin Johnson became CEO of Juniper, while Kriens remained as chairman. Kriens was ranked 463rd on the ''Forbes''

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in 2006, 478th in 2007 and 454th in 2008 He was the U.S. Winner of the EY Entrepreneur of The Year Award in 2000 with Juniper Networks

1440 Foundation and 1440 Multiversity

In 2010, Kriens, with his wife, Joanie, established the 1440 Foundation and the 1440 Multiversity retreat center in the

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References

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