Marc A. Cohen, CEO & Chairman; Alain J. Cohen, CTO & President; Mel Wesley, CFO; Erika Durrington, SVP; Yev Gurevich, SVP; Todd Kaloudis, SVP; Joseph Lenz, SVP; PJ Malloy, SVP; Dennis McCoy, SVP; Alberto Morales, SVP; Carol Nakhuda, SVP; Pradeep Singh, SVP; Edward Sykes, SVP.
The company was founded in 1986 and went public in 2000.[1] In October 2012, OPNET was acquired by Riverbed Technology, for about $1 billion US dollars.[2][3][4][5]
"OPNET" was Alain Cohen's (co-founder, CTO & President) graduate project for a networking course while he was at MIT. OPNET stood for Optimized Network Engineering Tools. Alain, along with brother Marc (co-founder, CEO & Chairman) and classmate Steven Baraniuk, decided to commercialize the software. The company's first product was OPNET Modeler, a software tool for computer network modeling and simulation.
Since becoming a public company in August 2000, OPNET executed the following acquisitions:
March 2001: NetMaker Division of Make Systems
January 2002: WDM NetDesign B.V.B.A
October 2004: Altaworks Corporation
October 2007: substantially all of the assets of Network Physics, Inc.
August 2010: DSAuditor product line from Embarcadero Technologies
May 2012: Clarus Systems, Inc.
As an independent company, OPNET grew profitably[6] throughout its history. SEC filings are available with further information about its IPO,[1] annual reports,[7] and quarterly reports.[8]
OPNET Solutions (prior to acquisition by Riverbed)
US$ 173 million (FY-12)
