John Kelley BA

John Kelley is Chair & Executive Director of CereHealth, a leading healthcare artificial intelligence medical analytics company headquartered in Colorado. Previously, John served as the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of McDATA Corp, a leading provider of storage networking, software & network consulting solutions. McDATA was acquired by Brocade, Inc. (now Broadcom) in early 2007. Prior to joining McDATA, he served as Executive Vice President of Networks at Qwest Communications from July 2000 to January 2001 after Qwest acquired US West in 2000. At US West from 1995 to 2000, John held several executive level positions. Those leadership positions included President of Wholesale Markets, Senior Vice-President & General Manager of Large Business Customers & Engineering Designed Services, as well as President of US West Federal Systems. Before his employment at US West, John was the Area President for Mead Corporations Southwest Region from 1991 to 1994 and Vice President and General Manager of the Industrial Products Division for Mead in 1995. He has held senior leadership positions at NBI Corp., Alcatel/Friden and Xerox Corporation. John has been a member of four public company board of directors: McDATA (NASDAQ), Polycom (NASDAQ), Emulex (NYSE), Captaris (NYSE). His private company board work has included Aztek Networks, Stored IQ, Circadence, 3 Leaf Networks, and Qooco (Beijing). He has participated at the board level with several local and national non-profits. Most recently, he has been a key contributor to two organizations who develop, train and coach high potential women executives in pursuit of board of director positions. John holds a B.S. in business management from the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Served in the US Army from 1970 to 1972. He studied electrical engineering and played varsity baseball at the University of Missouri, Columbia from 1967 to 1970. He has completed various Executive Leadership Programs including Stanford Law School’s NACD program in Law, Economics, & Business. John was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at Heidelberg University in Ohio after delivering the 2010 Commencement speech to the graduates of that University.