Mr. Meyercord has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Extreme since April 2015. He joined our Board of Directors as an independent director in October 2009 and served as Chairman from March 2011 through August 2015.

Prior to assuming an operating role at Extreme, Mr. Meyercord was Chief Executive Officer and Director at Critical Alert Systems, LLC, a software-driven, healthcare information technology company that he co-founded in July of 2010. Previously, Mr. Meyercord served as CEO, President and Director of both Cavalier Telephone & TV, a privately held voice, video and data services company with an extensive fiber network; and Talk America, Inc., a publicly traded company that provided phone and internet services to consumers and small businesses throughout the U.S.

Mr. Meyercord was also a Vice President in the investment banking division of Salomon Brothers (now Citigroup), and previously served on the board of Tollgrade Communications, Inc.

Nabil Bukhari is a futurist and business leader working at the crossroads of technology, industry, and human impact.
 
As President of AI Platforms and Chief Technology Officer at Extreme Networks, he leads the company’s vision for transforming networks into intelligent systems that anticipate, adapt, and advance the way people and organizations connect. In his dual role, Nabil oversees Extreme’s global engineering, product, and Office of the CTO functions, shaping the strategy and innovation behind the company’s AI-driven platform.
 
A believer in technology’s potential to improve the human condition, Nabil is focused on building scalable, ethical, and accessible AI ecosystems that deliver real-world value. His leadership combines deep technical insight with a pragmatic understanding of business transformation, turning bold ideas into outcomes that make technology work for people.
 
With a career that spans entrepreneurial ventures and executive roles at global technology leaders, Nabil brings decades of experience driving innovation across cloud, networking, and software. He holds degrees in Engineering, Arts, and Business, and has studied at the London School of Economics, NYU Stern, and HEC Paris.
 
Nabil continues to define an AI-powered future that is both powerful and profoundly human.

Norman serves as Chief Commercial Officer, leading the company’s sales, services and supply chain organizations with a focus on driving revenue growth. In addition, Norman is the Executive Sponsor for the Sports and Entertainment industry and the company’s National Football League (NFL) partnership.

Rice joined Extreme in 2015 and most recently served as Chief Operating Officer. During his tenure, he architected successful go-to-market sales motions including building the company’s stadium and venue business, orchestrating large opportunities with Verizon and Kroger, and managing the company through a complex macro supply chain environment.

Prior to Extreme, Norman worked in private equity as an operating partner with Marlin Equity, as managing director for New Castle Capital group and had management roles in technology firms CA (NASDAQ: CA), Concord Communications (Acquired by CA), Aprisma Management Technologies (Acquired by Concord), HoustonStreet Exchange and MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR). Previously, Norman was a Director on the Boards of DSP Group (NASDAQ: DSPG) and NitroSecurity (Acquired by McAfee) as well as on the Advisory Board of vKernel (Acquired by Quest Software).

Norman holds a master’s degree in management and an MS in Engineering, both from Dartmouth College, where he was a Scoville Fellow and Woodhouse Scholar award winner, as well as a BS from the University of Michigan.

Kevin Rhodes, CPA, serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Extreme. He is responsible for financial planning and reporting with a focus on developing and implementing key strategies and initiatives that support Extreme’s continued growth and expansion.

Rhodes joined Extreme in May 2023. Prior, Rhodes was EVP and CFO at Duck Creek Technologies, a global vertical SaaS provider, where he played a significant role in leading the company to a successful acquisition by Vista Equity Partners for $19 a share or $2.6B, a 64% premium over the 30-day volume weighted average price (VWAP). Previously, he held CFO roles at Finvi, Markforged and Brightcove. Rhodes holds an MBA from Babson College’s FW Olin Graduate School of Business and a B.S., Accounting/Finance from Merrimack College.

Kimberley Basnight serves as Chief People Officer, driving global strategies that enhance employee experiences through training, mentorship, leadership development, recruitment, and cultural transformation. Under her leadership, Extreme has achieved continuous increases in employee engagement scores and promotion rates, and both voluntary turnover and time-to-hire have been reduced through streamlined recruitment and retention frameworks.

Basnight has over 20 years of experience in executive program management, strategic planning, organizational change management, and operations. She previously served as Chief of Staff in the Office of the CEO and Director of IT Program Management at Extreme. Before joining the company, she held leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies including IBM and Lenovo. Earlier in her career, Basnight was part of IBM’s pioneering Project Management Center of Excellence, where she helped implement project governance and training across its campus of over 10,000 employees.

Over her career, Basnight has led, implemented, and supported IT project management offices, establishing project governance, change management programs, and training for emerging project managers. She was honored as an Inspirational Woman in Tech by WeAreTechWomen in 2024 and regularly speaks at top HR and leadership conferences around the globe.

Basnight holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from North Carolina Wesleyan University.

Monica Kumar is the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Extreme Networks, leading the company’s go-to-market strategy and global marketing organization focused on initiatives that elevate the company’s brand and unique value proposition to drive customer and revenue growth.

With more than 20 years of experience in enterprise technology, Monica has an extensive history of accelerating growth through compelling product differentiation as well as championing business transformation, sustainability, and equity initiatives. She is a passionate advocate for inclusion and belonging and supports those initiatives as an active board member for UPWARD Women and City Year San Jose/Silicon Valley, and as a founding member of Neythri Futures Fund.

Prior to joining Extreme, Monica served as CMO at Hitachi Vantara, where she launched Hitachi’s new brand strategy and narrative, and led a product simplification strategy that brought the company’s portfolio of data storage products together into one easy-to-consume, scalable, and resilient platform. Previously, she served as SVP of Marketing and Cloud go-to-market at Nutanix and spent more than 20 years at Oracle in a variety of marketing roles, most notably as the CMO of the Oracle Data Management and Database Cloud business.

Monica has a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology India and an MBA from San Jose State University.

Katy Motiey serves as the Chief Legal, Administrative and Sustainability Officer at Extreme. She has over 25 years of global legal and employment law experience encompassing corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, debt restructuring, commercial contract negotiation and licensing, patent and trademark portfolio management, IP litigation, IPO process management, corporate sustainability, as well as real estate, facilities and employment matters.

Motiey has developed a deep understanding of HR matters as a result of her previous in-house positions. She has been a driving force in building Extreme’s Women’s Leadership Council, started in 2018. She is also the corporate sponsor for Extreme’s partnership with the American India Foundation, a non-profit organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in India. Additionally, Motiey spearheaded our deployment of Bloom Energy, which has created significant cost savings and reduced our carbon emissions in California and was at the forefront of adding Social Responsibility to our Corporate Governance charter in fiscal 2020.

Prior to Extreme, Motiey was Corporate Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary at Spansion. Prior to that, she was General Counsel & Secretary as well as VP of HR at InvenSense, and General Counsel & Secretary Magellan Navigation & Ashtech, and Maple Optical Systems, as well as being Senior Corporate Counsel at Alta Vista. She began her career as a law clerk to the late Judge Manuel Real, who was then the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, followed by time as an associate at Skadden, Arps, a New York-based law firm.

Motiey holds a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from Georgetown University.

Stan Kovler is Senior Vice President Corporate Development and Investor Relations. In his role he advises senior leadership on various strategic initiatives working directly under the CEO and in concert with the executive team. He was a key advisor to the Extreme senior leadership team on the acquisition of Aerohive Networks. As head of Investor Relations, Stan is also responsible for communicating Extreme’s strategy and value proposition to investors, analysts, and the greater Wall Street community.

Prior to joining Extreme, Stan was the Small / Midcap IT Hardware and Networking analyst at Citi Research covering stocks across Communications Equipment, Storage, and Consumer Technology sectors. In that role he was recognized as an Institutional Investor Magazine 2017 “Rising Star” in both the IT Hardware and Networking sectors. Prior to Citi Research, Stan worked on teams covering networking and telecom equipment at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Susquehanna. He started his career at Clearbridge Advisors, formerly Smith Barney Asset Management, on the buy-side. Stan has an MBA from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree, with honors, from CUNY Baruch College.

Anisha Vaswani spearheads the development and implementation of Extreme’s overall IT strategy, ensuring that technology investments support the company’s business objectives and growth. Vaswani drives internal innovation and customer success for the company by acting as “Extreme’s Customer ONE,” testing and validating Extreme’s products and solutions before rolling them out to customers.

Vaswani engages with customers to complete successful technology migrations and deliver significant value add, prioritizing long-term customer relationships, loyalty, and retention.

Before joining Extreme, she served in several CIO roles at prominent companies such as IDG, Box, Toast, Inc., and Shockwave Medical. At Shockwave Medical, she helped the company scale operations and grow annual revenue to $1B. As CIO of Toast, she guided the company through the IPO process and played a role in growing the company from $1B in revenue to over $3B in annual revenue. She holds a B.S. in Management Information Systems from San Jose State University.