Kieran Taylor

Kieran Taylor is a proven leader in high-tech product marketing with experience in online retail, social marketing, application performance management, cloud technologies, CDNs and wide area network technology.

He is presently CMO at Blucarat, an early-stage company re-imagining Social Commerce for online retailers.
In previous roles at Compuware and Adobe, Taylor's responsibilities included corporate awareness, product marketing, field enablement and partner marketing.

For over a decade, Taylor was Senior Director Global Marketing at Akamai with oversight of go to market strategy, channel marketing and demand generation for Akamai's entire solutions portfolio. While at Akamai, Taylor launched several CDN market innovations including J2EE-based EdgeComputing and the open-standard Edge Side Includes (ESI), a markup language for dynamic content assembly and delivery at the edge, in use today by many leading enterprises.

Taylor led product marketing and management roles at DataPower Technology (now IBM), Nortel Networks and Bay Networks; specializing in XML/XSLT, VPN, and remote access technologies. Kieran has also worked as a broadband consultant to major service providers while at TeleChoice Inc. and was Wide Area Networks editor for publications at McGraw Hill.

19+ years of product management and marketing experience at small startups and larger, established high tech companies.
* CMO at Blucarat
* Director Product Marketing Compuware
* Senior Director Product Marketing, Day/Adobe
* Senior Director Global Marketing, Akamai
* Director of Product Marketing and Management - Akamai
* Director of Product Marketing - DataPower Inc.
* Product Management- Nortel Networks
* Product Marketing - Bay Networks
* Senior Broadband Consultant - TeleChoice Inc.; worked with Alcatel, Sprint, MCI, others
* Senior Wide Area Networks Editor - McGraw Hill Data Communications Magazine

Specialties:Specialties
* High-tech product marketing and product management with specialty focus on WAN technologies including CDNs, distributed computing, VPNs, remote access and DSL.

* Intimate knowledge of Web Services, XML/XSLT, SOA and J2EE enterprise software.

* Product design, launch and positioning expertise.
* Go to market planning, field sales support and all aspects of outbound marketing and demand generation.