Rich Day, Vice President of Product Strategy for CDNetworks, is responsible for future product direction. Rich was previously Vice President of Strategy at Panther Express, which merged with CDNetworks in early 2009, where he worked on product positioning and direction. Rich leverages a rich technical and business background in the CDN industry including the role of Chief Architect and Vice President of Operations at Speedera, where he was instrumental in conceptualizing, establishing, and sustaining its technology leadership. Rich continued in a technical consultant role at with Akamai Technologies after its merger with Speedera in 2005. Rich obtained nine U.S. patents for new systems, processes, and methodologies while with Speedera. Prior to Speedera, Rich was a Professional Services Consultant at Resonate, Inc. a provider of enterprise load balancing solutions. Rich holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Product Design, Digital Design focus from Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.