[3] Kriens began his marketing career with Burroughs Corporation, which merged with Sperry in 1986 to form Unisys, and then worked for Tandem Computers, before becoming a co-founder of telecommunications equipment company StrataCom, Inc. in 1986.
From 1986 to 1996 Kriens was vice president of sales and operations, until Stratacom was acquired for $4.5 billion by Cisco.
[2] Crosspoint Venture Partners subsequently recruited Kriens to lead Juniper Networks, naming him CEO in October 1996, where he remained until September 2008.
Winner of the EY Entrepreneur of The Year Award in 2000 with Juniper Networks [10] In 2010, Kriens, with his wife, Joanie, established the 1440 Foundation and the 1440 Multiversity retreat center in the redwoods of Scotts Valley, California.
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