Ken Venner

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Broadcom


Ken Venner joined Broadcom in August 2000 as Chief Information Officer (CIO). Venner's focus is to deliver IS/IT services that are "Like Air." Supporting a business composed primarily of engineers that is doubling in size every year creates unique challenges for an IT organization in terms of design, deployment and support. Broadcom engineers expect/demand that the IT infrastructure be invisible to them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Venner's organization is challenged to design and deploy capabilities that are available with 99.9% up time (planned and unplanned).

Prior to Broadcom, Venner was VP of Product Management and CIO for Rockwell Electronic Commerce from 1997-2000. In those positions he provided a unique perspective to the product development process, focused on delivering technologies and solutions that could be rapidly implemented allowing customers to focus on increasing revenues and reducing costs by efficiently and effectively managing all customer contacts. Before joining Rockwell, Venner worked at Lucent Technologies/AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1986-1997.