Lynn Tinney

Lynn D. Tinney is the vice president of Americas Channels at Riverbed Technology. Prior to joining Riverbed in 2014, Tinney served as the director of strategy and planning at Cisco Systems. While at Cisco her team authored the multi-functional business plan and tracked performance against strategic priorities to deliver $7 billion total revenues in FY2013.  She began her career at IBM Corporation before moving to Compaq, Enterasys Networks and Siemens AG. As vice president of channel sales for both Siemens and Enterasys, Tinney has established herself as a strong partner sales leader. Her sales, marketing and channel background are foundational to structuring and executing a single Americas plan. Her leadership style is one that fits in well with Riverbed – as she strives to keep her teams ahead of market changes by developing people, identifying business requirements, leveraging resources and measuring against aggressive targets. Tinney earned her M.B.A. at Bentley University’s McCallum School of Business and was recently selected as a CRN 2014 Women of the Channel and Power 100 – Most Powerful Women in the Channel executives.  @lynntinney