Peter Melerud

A 30-year IT industry innovator and entrepreneur, Peter Melerud has served a broad range of customer segments with a focus on delivering exceptional value through disruptive technology. Throughout his career, Peter has blended a deep understanding of data center infrastructure and application delivery technologies with innovative go-to-market strategies that has resulted in rapid customer adoption and revenue growth.

As co-founder of Kemp in 2003, Peter was instrumental in leading the Kemp business from incubation to one of the most disruptive players in application experience (AX), through to the companies eventual sale to Progress Software for $258M which closed in November 2021. He has navigated product management, business development, sales, marketing, and customer success programs that have translated into continuous year-over-year growth, profitability, and pioneering the new horizon of how enterprises and cloud providers deliver and secure their applications. Serving as chief strategy officer for Kemp, Peter develops, executes and sustains corporate strategic initiatives with a particular focus on go-to-market, product strategy, corporate development, as well as establishing key technology alliances.