Biography
Susie Kim Riley is a proven technology executive with a talent for anticipating strategic technology and market trends, and delivering solutions to propel industries forward. She has founded and or held leadership positions with several successful technology/networking companies in the communications industry spanning IP networking, fixed and mobile broadband and semiconductors.
Most recently Susie was the chief marketing officer of Tekelec, She was responsible for setting the marketing and technology direction for the company. She drove the evolution of the company’s strategy from its legacy SS7 based heritage to a new internet/broadband direction based on recently acquired technologies.
Susie came to Tekelec through the acquisition of Camiant. As the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Camiant, she established the company's leadership in policy control with deployments in the core of the mobile Internet and broadband networks of over 45 operators worldwide. Susie started the company on the premise that operators’ broadband networks and services would have to evolve from a ‘laissez faire, one size fits all’ approach into smart, intelligently managed networks that can be used for multiple convergent services. Susie is recognized as the pioneer in policy control, and drove the proliferation and standardization of the technology that is used by service providers worldwide to deploy tiered data services, VoIP and Video over IP services, and bandwidth/fair use management solutions.
Prior, Susie held technical and management leadership roles at other successful startup companies - including Broadband Access Systems (next generation cable modem termination systems - acquired by ADC), Maker Communications (pioneer in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network processors - acquired by Conexant) and Proteon (innovator of several internet technologies including OSPF, BGP and SNMP). She is frequently an invited speaker at industry events and has published many papers on data service evolution and tiering, bandwidth management, multimedia services and regulations. She holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Cornell University, and has authored 16 issued patents.