Kentik Invests in Service Providers, Appoints Jezzibell Gilmore as GM of Service Providers

Adam LaGreca
Founder of 10KMedia
adam@10kmedia.co

Kentik, the network observability company, today announced hiring Jezzibell Gilmore to further develop and expand the company’s growing global service provider business. Service providers across every industry continue to realize the benefits of enhanced network observability powered by AI and serve as key enablers of the digital ecosystem for consumers and enterprises globally.

“Jezzibell brings immense expertise and skills to enable Kentik to support our growing set of service provider customers and partners,” said Avi Freedman, CEO and Co-Founder of Kentik. “Her experiences as a co-founder, a business leader, and as a product leader are a unique blend that perfectly suits our ambition to strengthen the impact of the Kentik network observability platform across the technology ecosystem.”

Gilmore joins Kentik from Connectbase, where she was their Chief Commercial Officer. She was also the co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of PacketFabric, which delivers on-demand, private, and secure connectivity services with software automation between hundreds of premier colocation facilities and cloud providers across the globe. PacketFabric was recognized as the “2020 Fierce Telecom Innovation Award for Cloud Services,” named one of the “10 Hottest Networking Startups of 2020” by CRN, and a “2020 Cool Vendor in Enhanced Internet Services and Cloud Connectivity” by Gartner.

Drawing on her extensive experience in the service provider vertical, Jezzibell brings a wealth of expertise in go-to-market, strategic alliances and partnerships, and product management to the forefront of her new role.

“??At Kentik, my mission is to enhance the service provider business by shining a light on the values of our network observability platform, built to handle the challenges of a rapidly changing market,” said Jezzibell Gilmore, GM, Service Provider at Kentik. “Leveraging my keen ability to listen, and experience in network operations and strategic business insight, I am committed to deliver exceptional value and success for our service provider customers and partners.”

Kentik is re-imagining Network Observability, extending the broadest platform for hybrid infrastructure analytics by leveraging generative and traditional AI embedded to democratize access to critical knowledge about complex systems. Through a natural language interface, guided troubleshooting workflows, and deep insights into cost, performance, and security, Kentik enables service providers to control, sell, and grow their network efficiently.

About Kentik

Kentik is a leading observability company across the network, infrastructure, and cloud. Our platform is a must-have for the network front line, whether digital business, corporate IT or service provider. Network professionals turn to Kentik to plan, run and fix any network, relying on our infinite granularity, AI-driven insights and fast search. Kentik makes sense of network, infrastructure, cloud, host and container flow, internet routing, performance tests and network metrics. We show IT what they need to know about their network performance, health and security to make their business-critical services shine. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik for network observability. Visit us at kentik.com and follow us at @kentikinc.