# Keith Zubchevich

> Keith Zubchevich is the President and CEO of Conviva, the streaming intelligence and digital experience platform that monitors over 5 billion sensors and processes 3 trillion real-time events daily. A serial entrepreneur who has founded six companies and raised over $500 million across his career, Zubchevich joined Conviva in 2008, served as Chief Strategy Officer, and stepped into the CEO role in 2021. Under his leadership, Conviva has evolved from streaming quality-of-experience monitoring into a full agentic AI analytics platform. He is widely recognized as a clear-eyed voice on the limits and measurement requirements of AI agents in consumer-facing applications.

- **Role:** President & CEO at Conviva
- **Organizations:** Conviva, Riverbed Technology, Cisco, McDATA, Digital Equipment Corporation, StorageTek
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science, Economics, San Diego State University
- **Known for:** Appointed President & CEO of Conviva in 2021 after more than a decade as a key growth driver, Founded six companies in telecom, content creation/delivery, and internet technology, Raised over $500 million in private and public finance across his companies

## Career timeline

- **1980s-1990s** — Early career in sales management at Digital Equipment Corporation and StorageTek open systems divisions
- **1990s-2000s** — Founded six companies in telecommunications, content creation/delivery, and internet technology; raised over $500M and completed 10+ acquisitions
- **early 2000s** — Regional Vice President at McDATA - core team member designing and implementing company's sales and channel coverage model
- **mid-2000s** — Director of Operations at Cisco, responsible for storage-switching and optical solutions; led launch of Cisco's MDS storage networking technology, generating $244M in revenue in two years
- **2006-2008** — Vice President of Business Development at Riverbed Technology, instrumental in go-to-market strategy and key partnerships as company went public
- **2008** — Joined Conviva as a senior leader, later serving as Chief Strategy Officer
- **2021** — Appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Conviva
- **2025** — Conviva recognized as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring
- **2025-12** — Conviva launches Digital Product Insights with Pattern Analytics, Predictive Intelligence, Cohort Replay, and Nexa AI interface - reimagining analytics for the agentic era

## Achievements

- Appointed President & CEO of Conviva in 2021 after more than a decade as a key growth driver
- Founded six companies in telecom, content creation/delivery, and internet technology
- Raised over $500 million in private and public finance across his companies
- Completed 10+ acquisitions and mergers
- Led Cisco's MDS storage networking technology launch - $244 million in revenue within two years
- Guided Conviva to recognition as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring
- Scaled Conviva's sensor network to 5 billion distributed sensors globally
- Built platform processing 3 trillion real-time events daily
- Expanded Conviva from streaming QoE monitoring into enterprise agentic AI analytics
- Member of the Fast Company Executive Board

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Featured on Tech Talks Daily podcast discussing how to turn experimental AI agents into reliable production systems
- **2025-12** — Led Conviva's launch of Digital Product Insights with Pattern Analytics, Predictive Intelligence, Cohort Replay, and Nexa natural-language AI interface
- **2025-10** — Conviva named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring under his leadership
- **2024-05** — Spoke with Alex Kantrowitz on the Big Technology podcast about digital experience analytics and the 222 trillion combinations of factors affecting user quality of experience

## Links

- Website: https://conviva.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/keithzubchevich

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Last updated: 2026-05-16