Richard Piasentin

As chief marketing and chief strategy officer of Accedian, Richard Piasentin guides the company’s leadership in performance analytics and end user experience solutions to unlock full network potential. He oversees investment priorities and fosters a consistent brand communications and marketing strategy for our customers. Richard also drives our commercialization efforts in the areas of global product pricing, solution marketing, and business development. Richard began his career at Nortel Networks in 1992 as a test engineer for their public carrier switching division. From there, he segued into focusing on the wireless industry, taking on a variety of senior roles at Nortel within sales, operations, and supply chain during his 17 years at the company. After Nortel, he was vice president and general manager for BlackBerry’s North American business, and general manager of Viavi’s Visibility, Intelligence and Analytics (VIA) business unit. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, RF specialization, from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.