Russ Kennedy

Russ Kennedy is the Chief Product Officer at Nasuni, the leading file data services company. Russ is a highly regarded storage industry executive with more than 25 years of experience developing software and hardware solutions to address exponential data growth. Before Nasuni, Russ directed product strategy at private cloud object storage pioneer Cleversafe through its $1.3 billion acquisition by IBM. While Russ was helping transition the product to what is now IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS), he began working with IBM partner Nasuni and became convinced Nasuni’s cloud-native global file system is the only data management technology that truly exploits the strengths of object storage. Earlier in his career, Russ served in a variety of product management and development roles, most notably at StorageTek (acquired by Sun Microsystems), where he brought several industry-leading products to market. He has a BS degree in Computer Science from Colorado State University and an MBA degree from the University of Colorado.