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Silver Peak CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, David Hughes is the Silver Peak's CEO. Silver Peak has 352 employees, of which 14 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Silver Peak executive team is 14% female and 86% male.
  • 66% of the management team is White.
  • 8% of Silver Peak management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 10% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Name & TitleBio
David Hughes

CEO / President

David Hughes's LinkedIn

David Hughes founded Silver Peak Systems in 2004 after a year as Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. Through 2013 Hughes drove innovation as CTO, and then more recently, as CEO he has led Silver Peak beyond WAN optimization into the emerging SD-WAN market. Prior to Silver Peak, Hughes was a vice president and general manager at BlueLeaf Networks (2000-2002), where his team developed a unique network switching and transmission system. From 1996 to 2000, Hughes held several positions at Cisco Systems, including director of system architecture for the BPX and MGX product lines, and senior director of product management for the Multi-Service Switching Business Unit. Earlier, Hughes was a key engineering contributor at StrataCom, an early pioneer in frame relay and ATM, which was acquired by Cisco in 1996. Before StrataCom, David worked as an engineer for BNR Japan/Northern Telecom Japan Inc.

Hughes has been awarded more than 50 patents in areas including data acceleration, routing and packet switching, control and scheduling algorithms. Hughes earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Wollongong University, Australia, and holds a BE in Electrical Engineering from Auckland University, New Zealand.

Eric Yeaman

CFO

Eric Yeaman's LinkedIn

Eric Yeaman has served as Chief Financial Officer since joining Silver Peak in 2005. Previously, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Turnstone Systems. Eric has held various senior financial positions at Atheros Communications, Atmosphere Networks (acquired by Ditech Communications), Whitetree Networks (acquired by Ascend Communications), and KPMG. Mr. Yeaman became a CPA in 1995.

Chris Helfer

Senior Vice President

Damon Ennis

SVP Products

Pat Gilbreath

VP

Adam Fuoss

Vice President of Technical Sales

John Min

Vice President

Steve Giusti

VP

Robert Finocchio

Board Member

Roger Evans

Board Member

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Name & TitleBio
David Hughes

CEO / President

David Hughes's LinkedIn

David Hughes founded Silver Peak Systems in 2004 after a year as Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. Through 2013 Hughes drove innovation as CTO, and then more recently, as CEO he has led Silver Peak beyond WAN optimization into the emerging SD-WAN market. Prior to Silver Peak, Hughes was a vice president and general manager at BlueLeaf Networks (2000-2002), where his team developed a unique network switching and transmission system. From 1996 to 2000, Hughes held several positions at Cisco Systems, including director of system architecture for the BPX and MGX product lines, and senior director of product management for the Multi-Service Switching Business Unit. Earlier, Hughes was a key engineering contributor at StrataCom, an early pioneer in frame relay and ATM, which was acquired by Cisco in 1996. Before StrataCom, David worked as an engineer for BNR Japan/Northern Telecom Japan Inc.

Hughes has been awarded more than 50 patents in areas including data acceleration, routing and packet switching, control and scheduling algorithms. Hughes earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Wollongong University, Australia, and holds a BE in Electrical Engineering from Auckland University, New Zealand.

Eric Yeaman

CFO

Eric Yeaman's LinkedIn

Eric Yeaman has served as Chief Financial Officer since joining Silver Peak in 2005. Previously, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Turnstone Systems. Eric has held various senior financial positions at Atheros Communications, Atmosphere Networks (acquired by Ditech Communications), Whitetree Networks (acquired by Ascend Communications), and KPMG. Mr. Yeaman became a CPA in 1995.

Chris Helfer

Senior Vice President

Damon Ennis

SVP Products

Pat Gilbreath

VP

Silver Peak board members

Name & TitleBio
David Hughes

CEO / President

David Hughes's LinkedIn

David Hughes founded Silver Peak Systems in 2004 after a year as Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. Through 2013 Hughes drove innovation as CTO, and then more recently, as CEO he has led Silver Peak beyond WAN optimization into the emerging SD-WAN market. Prior to Silver Peak, Hughes was a vice president and general manager at BlueLeaf Networks (2000-2002), where his team developed a unique network switching and transmission system. From 1996 to 2000, Hughes held several positions at Cisco Systems, including director of system architecture for the BPX and MGX product lines, and senior director of product management for the Multi-Service Switching Business Unit. Earlier, Hughes was a key engineering contributor at StrataCom, an early pioneer in frame relay and ATM, which was acquired by Cisco in 1996. Before StrataCom, David worked as an engineer for BNR Japan/Northern Telecom Japan Inc.

Hughes has been awarded more than 50 patents in areas including data acceleration, routing and packet switching, control and scheduling algorithms. Hughes earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Wollongong University, Australia, and holds a BE in Electrical Engineering from Auckland University, New Zealand.

Robert Finocchio

Board Member

Roger Evans

Board Member

Andy Rachleff

Board Member

John Cadeddu

Board Member

Tim McAdam

Board Member

Silver Peak leadership demographics

Silver Peak gender distribution in management team

  • The Silver Peak executive team is 14% female and 86% male.
  • Silver Peak is 39% female and 61% male company-wide.
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Male
86%
Company-wide: 61%
Female
Female
14%
Company-wide: 39%

Silver Peak executives by race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among Silver Peak executive officers is White.
  • 66% of the management team is White.
  • 13% of Silver Peak's management is Asian.
  • 10% of the management team is Black or African American.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 57% of employees are White.
  • 16% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • 13% of employees are Asian.
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What employees say about the executives at Silver Peak

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Cons of working at Silver Peak

Lots of college hires. Very weak management. Virtually no real integration with HPE in the software area.

Silver Peak benefits

Free coffee

Pros of working at Silver Peak

Good benefits

What do you like best about Silver Peak's CEO and the leadership team?

The Aruba ceo is experienced and well liked

How would you improve Silver Peak's culture?

The offices suck with bull pen tables and loud ambient noise.

How did you prepare for the Silver Peak interview?

S one Norma l programming questions. They are mostly new college hire centric so docile new graduates is what they look for.

What brings you the most joy at Silver Peak?

Learning new things work with good folks

What's the diversity at Silver Peak like?

Was too much emphasis on DEI

How does your compensation at Silver Peak compare to the industry average?

Average

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