Scott Kriens is an American businessman. He is chairman and former CEO of Juniper Networks.^[1]

Kriens received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from California State University, East Bay, in Hayward, California, in 1979.^[2] A collector of European sports cars, Kriens, as an undergraduate, had repaired cars to meet expenses.^[3]

Kriens began his marketing career with Burroughs Corporation, which merged with Sperry in 1986 to form Unisys, and then worked for Tandem Computers, before becoming a co-founder of telecommunications equipment company StrataCom, Inc. in 1986. From 1986 to 1996 Kriens was vice president of sales and operations, until Stratacom was acquired for $4.5 billion by Cisco.^[2]

Crosspoint Venture Partners subsequently recruited Kriens to lead Juniper Networks, naming him CEO in October 1996, where he remained until September 2008. Juniper's market success is largely credited to Kriens.^[2][4][5] Juniper's stock rose from $57 per share, at the start of 2000, to an all-time high of $243 per share, in mid-October 2000.^[2] In 2008, Kevin Johnson became CEO of Juniper, while Kriens remained as chairman.^[6]

Kriens was ranked 463rd on the Forbes Executive Pay in 2006,^[7] 478th in 2007^[8] and 454th in 2008^[9]

He was the U.S. Winner of the EY Entrepreneur of The Year Award in 2000 with Juniper Networks ^[10]

In 2010, Kriens, with his wife, Joanie, established the 1440 Foundation and the 1440 Multiversity retreat center in the redwoods of Scotts Valley, California.^[11]