Philip O'Reilly

CTO, Americas & U.S. Federal, Brocade

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Philip O'Reilly is Brocade's Vice President and CTO for US Federal. He is responsible for developing and articulating Brocade’s technology strategies and architectures in the rapidly evolving data center market. These architectures span the entire Brocade portfolio of platforms, technologies and services including Data Center Core, Storage and Network Fabrics, NFV, SDN, Orchestration and Network Edge all built to help customers smoothly and safely transition to the Virtualized Data Center in their future.

A seasoned sales leader in his sixth year at Brocade, Mr. O'Reilly joined from Juniper Networks, where he served as the Senior Vice President for Sales for the Americas, which included the Federal practice. Prior to the role at Juniper, Mr. O'Reilly was the CEO of Solunet, Inc., a top-ten value added infrastructure solutions provider which had broad public sector presence in the US, LATAM and Canada. He has over thirty years of experience in executive leadership roles in Fortune 1000 technology and manufacturing companies.

Mr. O'Reilly holds a B.A. from St. Joseph's College, a J.D. from Western New England College School of Law and an MBA from Penn State University. Mr. O'Reilly is also an experienced military aviator and continues to fly as a commercial pilot and flight instructor in both airplanes and gliders. He hails from Charleston, South Carolina.