George A. Riedel

Mr. Riedel most recently served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cloudmark, Inc., a leader in security, protecting traffic, data and infrastructure from network threats. He brings to Cerner 15 years of experience in various executive and entrepreneurial roles in technology related industries.

Prior to Cloudmark, Mr. Riedel held various senior management positions at Nortel Networks Corporation, including Chief Strategy Officer. He also has served as Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development of Juniper Networks, Inc. and Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company where he spent 15 years serving clients in the telecom and technology sectors in Asia and North America on a range of strategy and growth issues.

Mr. Riedel currently serves on the Board of Directors of Xperi Corporation (f/k/a Tessera Holding Corporation) (Nasdaq: XPER) and previously served as the Chairman of the Board of Accedian Networks Inc. He also previously served on the Boards of Directors of NextDocs Corporation, PeerApp Ltd. and Blade Network Technologies.

Mr. Riedel earned a B.S. with Distinction in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Mr. Riedel attended the Stanford Graduate Business School Executive Education Program for Directors. He is currently a professor at Harvard Business School.