Ruckus Wireless Appoints HP Veteran as VP of Asia Pacific

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus Wireless™, the Smart Mobile internetworking company, today announced the appointment of long-time HP Veteran, Louis Au Kwok-Leung, as its Vice President for Asia Pacific.

Au will be responsible for expanding the Ruckus business within the rapidly growing region and increasing its capacity to respond more effectively and rapidly to the tremendous growth opportunities in Asia Pacific, the fastest growing market for the company.

Since 2006, Ruckus Wireless has realized a 40-fold growth in revenue and 30-fold growth in unit shipments within the Asia Pacific region. Between 2006 and 2009, Ruckus achieved 242 percent compound annual growth in revenue within APAC.

"We are very excited to have Louis overseeing our business in APAC," said Selina Lo, president & CEO of Ruckus Wireless. "He has an impressive track record of taking a major foothold in key markets at a high growth rate. With the growth of the mobile Internet, Wi-Fi has become a strategic tool for service providers and enterprises, and Louis has the essential experience and capability to help service providers, enterprises and our partners benefit from it."

The appointment of Au follows the recent announcements of key managers in Southeast Asia, India and Australia/New Zealand. The expansion of the Ruckus management team reflects the dramatic growth of Wi-Fi within the APAC market driven by the migration to higher speed 802.11n technology and the upsurge in demand for smarter Wi-Fi to meet new enterprise and carrier demands for highly reliable and multimedia-ready wireless solutions.

Au has over 20 years of professional experience in the networking and telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Ruckus, he was vice president and general manager for HP's ProCurve networking in Asia Pacific and Japan. Prior to that, he spent over 16 years at Nortel Networks, where he held a number of executive and senior management positions in the areas of enterprise voice and data, e-business and operations. He worked with leading operators and enterprises to establish their wireless infrastructure in the region.

"Over the last two years, the Asia Pacific market has contributed solid growth performances for Ruckus Wireless," said Seamus Hennessy, chief financial officer at Ruckus Wireless. "The region continues to present the brightest growth opportunities for our mobile Internet systems. We are seeing demand increasing exponentially across nearly every vertical market as companies migrate to 802.11n as well as with carriers and mobile operators looking to Smart Wi-Fi to augment their 3G/4G strategies."

"Ruckus breathes new life into Wi-Fi," said Au. "Ruckus understands the fear of service providers and enterprises in using unlicensed spectrum to support powerful new wireless-only mobile devices where RF interference is often out of their control. Ruckus is the only supplier that has tackled these RF interference issues since shipping its first Wi-Fi system."

Au graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Surrey. He is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese, and is based in Singapore.

About Ruckus Wireless, Inc.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Ruckus Wireless is supplier of advanced wireless systems for the mobile Internetworking market. The company markets and manufactures a wide range of indoor and outdoor "Smart Wi-Fi" products for mobile operators, broadband service providers and corporate enterprises around the world. Ranked as the top telecom company in the 2009 Inc. Magazine 500 list and named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Ruckus Wireless has realized dramatic growth. Since 2006, revenue and shipments have grown by over 1000 percent. Ruckus invented, and has patented, innovative state-of-the-art wireless technology that steers signals around obstacles and interference. This unique capability extends signal range and ensures consistent reliable distribution of delay-sensitive multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi. The company has shipped over 2 million Smart Wi-Fi systems around the world and has raised $51 million in funding from premier investors such as Sequoia Capital, Focus Ventures, Sutter Hill, Motorola, T-Ventures, Telus Ventures and Firelake Capital. The company is led by Ms. Selina Lo, president and chief executive officer. For more information, visit Ruckus Wireless at http://www.ruckuswireless.com.

SOURCE Ruckus Wireless