Avaya is announcing that Kevin Kennedy - currently CEO of JDS Uniphase Corporation - will join the company as president and CEO in January 2009.
Avaya also said that Charles Giancarlo will become Chairman of the Board when Kennedy assumes the CEO position.
He holds a B.S. in engineering from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Rutgers University.
Kennedy is a member of the board of directors of Polycom, Inc. and KLA-Tencor Corporation and a member of the Board of Regents of Loyola Marymount University.
