Lloyd Carney (born 1962) is an American businessman who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the former chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Brocade Communications Systems, leaving that position when Brocade was acquired by Broadcom Limited in 2017.
He has also held senior leadership roles at IBM and Juniper Networks.
Carney serves as Chancellor of the University of Technology, Jamaica.
He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Carney Global Ventures.
He serves on the board of Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
Carney was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He attended Wolmer's Boys' School, one of the oldest high schools in the Caribbean, before relocating to the United States to pursue higher education.
Lloyd Carney earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology from the Wentworth Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in Applied Business Management from Lesley University (formerly Lesley College).
In 2013, Carney was awarded an honorary PhD in Engineering by the Wentworth Institute of Technology, where he also delivered the August 2013 commencement keynote address.
In 2022, he received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Technology, Jamaica.
Carney has served multiple terms on the Board of Trustees of the Wentworth Institute of Technology. He has also contributed to campus development by funding resources such as the Lloyd Carney Reading Room and the Tech Sandbox, initiatives aimed at supporting student innovation and entrepreneurship.
Carney began his career in the technology and networking sector at Wellfleet Communications. The company later merged with SynOptics to form Bay Networks, which was subsequently acquired by Nortel Networks in 1998.
In 2002, Carney joined Juniper Networks as Chief Operating Officer, where he oversaw engineering, product management, and manufacturing.
Carney later became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Micromuse, a network management software company. Micromuse was acquired by IBM in 2006.
In 2008, Carney became Chief Executive Officer of Xsigo Systems, a data center virtualization company. Xsigo was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2012.
Carney served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Brocade Communications Systems from 2013 to 2017. During his tenure, the company expanded its position in data center and storage networking. Brocade was acquired by Broadcom Inc. in 2017.
He also established Carney Global Ventures, LLC, an early round investor focused on proven individuals with creative technology ideas.