Mark Day, PhD. came to Riverbed from Cisco Systems, where he was technical lead for content networking product management. Dr. Day was previously Senior Scientist at SightPath, which was acquired by Cisco in 2000. Earlier, he was a Research Scientist and assistant to the CTO at Lotus/IBM, where his work contributed to the creation of Lotus Sametime (now called Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing). Dr. Day has chaired Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups on Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (IMPP) and Content Internetworking (CDI). He has three issued patents and multiple pending patents relating to presence, streaming media, content networking, mobile communications, and telephony. His other notable work includes contributions to the programming languages Argus and Theta, and to the distributed object database Thor. Dr. Day has held an adjunct appointment at Harvard University teaching graduate computer science, and received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1995. |