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Larry Carter is a Senior Vice President in Cisco's Office of the Chairman and CEO and a member of the Cisco Board of Directors. Carter joined Cisco as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in 1995 and developed a world-class finance organization during his eight-year tenure. Under his leadership, the Cisco Finance Organization used Internet technologies to pioneer daily financial reporting on crucial metrics for company executives and made the one-day worldwide "virtual close" a reality. The "virtual close" not only increased the accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting at Cisco, but also cut finance costs almost in half as a percentage of revenue. During his career as CFO at Cisco, his finance organization was spotlighted in major publications such as Fortune, Harvard Business Review, CFO magazine, and Financial Executive. His expertise has been recognized in awards such as the CFO Excellence Awards. Carter was appointed to the Cisco Board of Directors in 2000, bringing to this role more than 25 years of experience as well as a thorough understanding of the industry from a business and financial perspective. In 2003 he was appointed to his current position. As a member of the board and an officer, Carter continues to influence the overall strategy and direction of the company. Carter's career prior to Cisco was focused primarily in the semiconductor industry. He has held financial leadership positions at Advanced Micro Devices, VLSI Technology, SGS Thompson Microelectronics, and Motorola, Inc. Carter also serves on the Board of Trustees at Loyola Marymount University. He holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration/accounting from Arizona State University (ASU), which honored Carter in 2000 with the ASU College of Business Distinguished Achievement Award in recognition of his leadership in technology revolution.

Pierre-Paul Allard is presently Area Vice-President, Sales for Cisco Systems Inc., where he has held several management positions over the years. Currently, he is responsible for sales and field operations of Cisco’s Global Enterprise Client segment, focusing on new market opportunities, accelerated revenue growth and increased customer satisfaction. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Allard worked for IBM Canada for 12 years. Mr. Allard was appointed a member of EXFO’s Board of Directors in September 2008 and has been a board member of many other technology companies in Canada and in the US. Today, he is also an active philanthropist for l’Institut de Cardiologie de Québec. In 2002, Mr. Allard co-chaired the Canadian e-Business Initiative, a private-public partnership aiming to measure the role e-Business plays in increasing productivity levels, job creation and competitive position. In 1998, he was the laureate of the Arista-Sunlife Award, for Top Young Entrepreneur in Large Enterprise, by the Montreal Chamber of Commerce. In 2003, he received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, which highlights significant contributions to Canada. In the same year, he was also awarded the prestigious Trudeau Medal from the University of Ottawa, School of Management. Pierre-Paul Allard holds a bachelor’s and masters’ degree in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa, School of Management, in Canada.

A 30-year veteran of the IT industry, Michael Capellas became First Data’s chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) upon the close of the acquisition of First Data by an affiliate of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) in September 2007. Prior to joining First Data, Capellas was a two-time, former CEO of Compaq Computer Corporation and MCI and a recognized global thought leader in the technology space. He began his career with Schlumberger Limited and went on to hold senior management positions at Schlumberger as well as Oracle Corporation and SAP Americas. He joined Compaq in 1998 as their chief information officer and was named chairman and CEO in July 1999. After the merger with HP, Capellas served as president of HP. In 2002, he accepted the challenge of leading MCI (then WorldCom) through the largest corporate reorganization in history. For three years, he served as MCI’s president and CEO and oversaw the successful rebuilding of the company. Turnaround completed, Verizon Communications ultimately acquired MCI in 2006. Post MCI, Capellas has been serving as a senior advisor to Silver Lake Partners, an investment firm that focuses on large scale investments in technology and related industries. Capellas serves on the board of directors of Cisco Systems, Inc. and the national board of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Kent State University.

Roderick C. McGeary, age 57, has been a member of the Board since August 1999 and Chairman of the Board since November 2004. From March 2005 until December 2007, Mr. McGeary served the Company in a full-time capacity, focusing on clients, employees and business partners. From 2004 until 2005, Mr. McGeary served as our Chief Executive Officer. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. McGeary was the Chief Executive Officer of Brience, Inc., a wireless and broadband company. Mr. McGeary is a director of Cisco Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, and Dionex Corporation, a manufacturer and marketer of chromatography systems for chemical analysis. On December 31, 2007, Mr. McGeary retired as an employee of the Company. Mr. McGeary will continue serving as Chairman of the Board.

Mr. Stewart provides leadership and direction to multiple corporate security and government teams throughout Cisco, strategically aligning with business units and the IT organization to generate leading corporate security practices, policies, and processes. The Corporate Security Programs Organization focuses on global information security consulting and services, security evaluation, critical infrastructure assurance, eDiscovery, source code security, identification management, as well as special programs that promote Cisco, Internet, and national security. Additionally, he is responsible for overseeing the security for Cisco.com - the infrastructure supporting Cisco’s more than $35 billion business. Mr. Stewart's longstanding career in information security encompasses numerous roles. He was the Chief Security Officer responsible for operational and strategic direction for corporate and customer security at Digital Island. Mr. Stewart has served as a research scientist responsible for investigating emerging technologies in the Office of the CTO at Cable & Wireless America. He has professional experience in software development, systems and network administration, and is a software specialist, author, and instructor. Throughout his career, he has been an active member of the security industry community. He served on advisory boards for Akonix, Finjan, Cloudshield, Riverhead, and TripWire, Inc. Currently, Mr. Stewart sits on technical advisory boards for Ingrian Networks, RedSeal Networks, Panorama Venture Capital (formerly JPMorganPartners Venture), and Signacert, Inc. and is on the Board of Directors for KoolSpan, Inc. Mr. Stewart holds a Master of Science Degree in Computer and Information Science from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.

Carol Bartz is the chief executive officer and a director of Yahoo!. Previously, Bartz served as executive chairman of the board of Autodesk, Inc. In April, 2006, she stepped down as chairman, president and CEO of Autodesk after 14 years with the company. During her tenure, the company diversified its product line and grew revenues from $285 million to $1.523 billion in FY06. Bartz previously held positions at Sun Microsystems, most recently serving as vice president of worldwide field operations and an executive officer of the company. Before joining Sun, she held product line and sales management positions at Digital Equipment Corporation and 3M Corporation. Bartz holds an honors degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin. She was granted an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from William Woods University.

Jerry Yang, a Taiwanese native raised in San Jose, Calif., co-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995. He served as chief executive officer of the company from June 2007 to January 2009. Mr. Yang, a leading force in the Internet media industry, has been instrumental in building Yahoo! into the world's most highly trafficked Web site and one of the world's most recognized brands. Since the company's founding, Mr. Yang has been a key member of the executive management team. His focus at Yahoo! over the years has included corporate strategy, Yahoo!'s technology vision, strategic business partnerships and international joint ventures, and recruiting key talent. In addition to serving on the Yahoo! Board of Directors, Mr. Yang currently serves on the board of directors of Cisco Systems, Yahoo! Japan, and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., and is also on the Stanford University Board of Trustees. Mr. Yang holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University and is currently on a leave of absence from Stanford's electrical engineering Ph.D. program.

With ten years of experience at Cisco Systems in a variety of roles and more than twenty years of strategic marketing experience, Chief Marketing Officer, Sue Bostrom is responsible for developing and communicating Cisco’s vision and strategy through positioning, branding, advertising, and associated growth initiatives. Bostrom’s organization consists of innovative marketing professionals who are responsible for acting as a stimulus for Cisco’s growth strategy and cultivating new opportunities in both new and existing market segments. Bostrom also has responsibility for the Worldwide Government Affairs organization which develops and executes upon Cisco’s public policy agenda. The group partners with government leaders worldwide to develop policies that will enable the deployment of productivity enhancing technologies in areas such as healthcare information technology. The collaboration between Cisco’s public policy efforts and marketing is critical in helping Cisco to meet market demands in new and existing markets. Bostrom also plays a leadership role on Cisco’s Consumer Business Council, developing and managing Cisco’s business strategies for this major customer segment. Prior to her role as Chief Marketing Officer, Bostrom had responsibility for the Internet Business Solutions Group, an organization she created and built to bring vertical expertise and Internet business solutions best practices to Global Fortune 500 companies, governors, and heads of state. Customer- and partner-focused, Bostrom believes in setting a strategic direction, establishing clear business objectives and ensuring that these objectives are met. The ability to be flexible and adjust priorities quickly to accommodate changing customer demands is central to Bostrom’s management style, and the success of her organization. In addition to her primary responsibilities, Bostrom served as the executive sponsor of the Women's Initiative at Cisco from 2001 through 2004. She firmly believes that diversity in the workforce brings diversity of thought which increases a business’ competitive advantage Bostrom joined Cisco in 1997 as Vice President of Applications and Services Marketing and was appointed to Vice President of IBSG in 1998. She was promoted to Senior Vice President in February 2000 and Executive Vice President in August 2007. Previously, Bostrom served as Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Strategic Planning at FTP Software, where she was instrumental in developing the company's product technology road map and long-term strategic options. Prior to joining FTP, Bostrom worked with National Semiconductor, where she developed and assisted in implementing National's strategy in the analog mixed-signal marketplace. Bostrom also served for U p d a t e d 0 9 / 0 7 seven years at McKinsey & Company as a leader in the electronics practice, working in areas such as strategic technical marketing, channel management, and business process reengineering. Bostrom serves on the Board of Directors for Varian Medical Systems and Stanford Hospital and Clinics. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and was formerly on the Management Board of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Management. Bostrom holds an MBA degree from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a B.S. degree in marketing from the University of Illinois, where she graduated in the top one percent of her undergraduate class.

Senior Vice President Howard Charney is a member of Cisco’s Office of the President and Executive Staff and reports directly to CEO John Chambers. He contributes to Cisco’s strategy and direction and advises customers on implementing critical Internet technologies to improve productivity and competitiveness. He is the company’s Executive Sponsor for the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau. During more than 30 years in Silicon Valley, Charney has overseen the development and proliferation of key technologies that led directly to the global build-out of the Internet. After joining Cisco with the acquisition of Grand Junction Networks, he helped grow Cisco’s new two-tier distribution business to more than US$2.4 billion and, with Cisco’s brand and market momentum, helped turn Fast Ethernet and low-cost switching into fundamental, global Internet technologies. Previously, Charney founded Grand Junction Networks in 1992. Grand Junction invented Fast Ethernet and lowcost switching, which transformed the economics of switching. In 1980 Charney cofounded 3Com, the progenitor of Ethernet and local area networking. 3Com’s breakthrough technologies enabled Internet access to the desktop. A licensed patent attorney, Charney belongs to the State Bar of California and the Federal Bar. He sits on the boards of several technology companies and on the advisory board for the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Santa Clara University. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and master’s of business administration and juris doctor degrees from Santa Clara University.

Jim Sherriff is Chairman and CEO of Cisco China and has responsibilities for developing and executing Cisco’s overall business strategy in China. He and his team are focused on aligning and coordinating all of Cisco’s business functions in China, including sales, service, research and development, manufacturing, human resources, business development, and site management. Prior to this role, Sherriff was Enterprise Segment Senior Vice President, with sales responsibility for 3200 of Cisco’s largest enterprise customers throughout the United States. Under his leadership, Sherriff’s team increased bookings by more than US$1 billion while achieving significant improvements across key customer satisfaction metrics. Sherriff has a strong record of producing business results and increasing customer intimacy by managing change with balanced risk. To improve Cisco’s overall customer experience, he implemented further segmentation of Cisco’s enterprise customer coverage models. By emphasizing the value of close government-enterprise partnerships and the unique expertise of Cisco’s service and consulting organizations, Sherriff has continuously kept Cisco relevant and beneficial for its enterprise customers. Before joining Cisco, Sherriff had a 20-year career with Hewlett-Packard in various customer-facing roles including sales, executive sales management, and professional services for the Asia Pacific region. He lived with his family in Hong Kong for five years and focused on growth in China and other countries in the region. In his last role at Hewlett-Packard, Sherriff served as Vice President and General Manager of HP Consulting with global responsibility for all of HP’s professional services. Sherriff holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine

John Chambers is Chairman and CEO of Cisco. He has helped grow the company from $70 million when he joined Cisco in January 1991, to $1.2 billion when he assumed the role of CEO, to its current run-rate of approximately $40 billion. In November 2006, Chambers was named Chairman of the Board, in addition to his CEO role. Chambers has received numerous awards for his leadership over his past 13 years at the helm of Cisco, including: Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People,” one of Barron’s’ “World’s Best CEOs,” the “Best Boss in America” by 20/20, one of BusinessWeek’s “Top 25 Executives Worldwide,” “CEO of the Year” by Chief Executive Magazine, the Business Council’s “Award for Corporate Leadership,” and “Best Investor Relations by a CEO” from Investor Relations Magazine three times. During his tenure as CEO, Cisco has been named to Fortune’s “America’s Most Admired Company” list seven times, BusinessWeek’s “Top 50 Performers” list six times, Forbes’ “Leading Companies in the World,” and is one of the top 10 places to work in the U.S., China, Germany, France, India, UK, Australia, Singapore and several other countries. In addition, Chambers has been widely recognized for his and Cisco’s philanthropic leadership, recently receiving the first-ever Clinton Global Citizen Award from former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and the U.S. State Department’s top corporate social responsibility award from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He has also been awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship, and the prestigious Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award, an award given by CEOs to their CEO peers. Chambers takes an active role in corporate social responsibility initiatives worldwide, which most recently includes forming a public-private partnership to help rebuild healthcare and education models in the Sichuan, China region impacted by the May 2008 earthquake. Chambers also co-sponsored the Jordan Education Initiative, which Cisco has worked on in partnership with His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan and the World Economic Forum. Additionally, in late 2006, Chambers co-led a delegation of U.S. business leaders, in partnership with the U.S. State Department, to form the Partnership for Lebanon, helping provide critically needed resources for ongoing reconstruction in Lebanon. Chambers has also spearheaded several other education initiatives, including the 21st Century Schools initiative, to improve education and opportunity for children in the Gulf Coast Region affected by Hurricane Katrina. He has served two American presidents; most recently as Vice Chairman of the President George W. Bush National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC), where he provided industry experience and leadership to help protect the United States’ critical infrastructure. He also served on President George W. Bush's Transition Team and Education Committee, and on President Bill Clinton's Trade Policy Committee. Chambers joined Cisco in 1991 as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Operations. He assumed the role of President and CEO in 1995. Prior to joining Cisco, he spent eight years at Wang Laboratories (1982-1990) and six years with IBM (1976-1982). He holds a law degree (1974) and a bachelor of science / bachelor of arts degree (1971) in business from West Virginia University and a masters of business administration degree in finance and management (1975) from Indiana University. He is married and has two adult children.been awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship, and the prestigious Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award, an award given by CEOs to their CEO peers. Chambers takes an active role in corporate social responsibility initiatives worldwide, which most recently includes forming a public-private partnership to help rebuild healthcare and education models in the Sichuan, China region impacted by the May 2008 earthquake. Chambers also co-sponsored the Jordan Education Initiative, which Cisco has worked on in partnership with His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan and the World Economic Forum. Additionally, in late 2006, Chambers co-led a delegation of U.S. business leaders, in partnership with the U.S. State Department, to form the Partnership for Lebanon, helping provide critically needed resources for ongoing reconstruction in Lebanon. Chambers has also spearheaded several other education initiatives, including the 21st Century Schools initiative, to improve education and opportunity for children in the Gulf Coast Region affected by Hurricane Katrina. He has served two American presidents; most recently as Vice Chairman of the President George W. Bush National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC), where he provided industry experience and leadership to help protect the United States’ critical infrastructure. He also served on President George W. Bush's Transition Team and Education Committee, and on President Bill Clinton's Trade Policy Committee. Chambers joined Cisco in 1991 as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Operations. He assumed the role of President and CEO in 1995. Prior to joining Cisco, he spent eight years at Wang Laboratories (1982-1990) and six years with IBM (1976-1982). He holds a law degree (1974) and a bachelor of science / bachelor of arts degree (1971) in business from West Virginia University and a masters of business administration degree in finance and management (1975) from Indiana University. He is married and has two adult children.

As President, European Markets, Chris Dedicoat has responsibility for tailoring Cisco solutions and services to the needs of customers in some of its most established markets, where technology-driven innovation is a key differentiator and an essential economic driver. His organization consists of 22 countries and it is the largest revenue-earning region for Cisco outside the United States. Supported by a team of almost 6,500 people, Dedicoat has overall leadership for sales, marketing, business development, and systems engineering. He is also responsible for Cisco’s investment in strategic alliances and acquisitions throughout the European region. Dedicoat joined Cisco in 1995 and has since held a number of senior positions, including Vice President and Managing Director of Cisco’s UK & Ireland operation. In that position he forged key relationships with the UK government and was a trusted advisor on its e-commerce strategy. He has also held responsibility for Cisco’s business for enterprises and small and medium-sized business in the Europe-Middle East-Africa region before assuming his current position in 2004. Dedicoat has held senior management roles at other leading companies including Motorola, where he was Sales Director of its telecommunications business and Customer Services Director. He is a frequent speaker at industry and government events and is a regular commentator in the print and broadcast media on topical IT, communications, telecom networking, and Internet issues affecting private and public sector organizations. In 2006 he was appointed to a European Commission task force that aims to strengthen Europe’s IT sector. Dedicoat holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Central England for his outstanding contribution to the field of engineering. He lives in the UK with his wife and family and his interests include flying, running and supporting his local Football Club, Aston Villa.

Edzard Overbeek is President and CEO of Cisco Japan and is responsible for the overall success of Cisco in the Japanese market. He directly manages the sales operations group of more than 750 employees and has fiduciary responsibility for 450 employees in support. He brings with him more than 7 years of executive experience with Cisco along with 13 years of leadership experience with other Fortune 500 companies. His vision for Japan is to drive growth and profitability, increase customer and partner satisfaction, and become the IT and communication market leader in Japan. Previously Overbeek was the lead executive responsible for Cisco’s commercial networking business in Europe, focusing primarily on small to midsized and midmarket businesses. There he addressed customer needs through distinct coverage models and focused marketing campaigns; oversaw design and delivery of targeted products, services, and solutions; and built and deployed dedicated channel programs. Overbeek also led the Strategic Planning & Operations group for the European region. He was accountable for the mid- to long-term strategic planning of enterprise, service provider, public sector, commercial, and consumer markets. He also focused on the operations organization, which covers IT systems, business process optimization, operational excellence, and sales productivity. Overbeek holds a master’s degree in business administration from NIMBAS, University of Bradford, UK.

Owen Chan is President of Asia Pacific Operations at Cisco. Chan’s responsibility is to develop and execute the company’s go-to-market strategies in the service provider, enterprise, small-to-medium business, and consumer markets to drive growth, market leadership, profitability, and customer and partner satisfaction in 13 countries and geographic areas in the region. Before being promoted to this role, Chan was Vice President, North Asia Operations from 2004 to 2005 and Vice President, Asia Operations from 2002 to 2004. During his tenure, Chan exceeded his revenue targets every year, led his regions to generate their highest sales revenue since the worldwide high-tech downturn of 2000, gained the highest-ever LAN market share for Cisco, and achieved the highest productivity growth rate in Cisco worldwide. Chan joined Cisco in 1999 as Vice President, responsible for Cisco’s Business Solutions Consulting and Support Services in Asia Pacific and Japan. Prior to joining Cisco, Chan spent over 12 years with General Electric, where his most recent position was Vice President of Information Services, Asia Pacific and Japan Operations. He successfully transformed GE’s regional presence by introducing e-commerce service to the China market, establishing GE as the market leader for a six-year period, and opening China’s market to other GE services. He also initiated and grew five major GE joint ventures (with partners including NEC and ISI-Dentsu).

Paul Mountford is president of the Emerging Markets Theatre for Cisco Systems. Paul is responsible for developing and executing the Company’s go-to-market strategies to drive growth in four regions: Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and Africa, and Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Since the inception of the Theatre, Emerging has grown at approximately 40% year on year. Paul is well known for his creative solutions to business issues. In fact, as Cisco SVP of Worldwide Channels, from 2001 through 2005, he created an innovative approach to Cisco’s go-to-market with its channels, evolving the company’s business model to drive partner profitability for mutual success. This team effort resulted in Cisco being designated the best partner program in the IT Industry as voted by channel partners. Prior to taking over WW Channels, Mr. Mountford played a pivotal role in the development and execution of a very successful sales and marketing strategy for EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa). His accomplishments include being the first to secure a $100-million-month outside the United States, the first to create complementary marketing and channel strategy for his region and the first to develop and implement an extensive Government Affairs Program. Mountford joined Cisco in 1996 as managing director of the United Kingdom and Ireland where in three years he helped propel the annual revenue run rate from $160 million to $1.4 billion, catapulting this region from Cisco's fifth largest to the largest market outside the United States. In 1998 he was promoted to vice president of the UK and Ireland and was awarded EMEA Vice President of the Year. In 1999 he was again promoted to vice president Service Provider Line of Business EMEA where he more than doubled the service provider infrastructure business. In 2000 he was promoted to Vice President of PTT1 in EMEA. The PTT1 sales team was recognized in 2000 as the top performing sales team in EMEA and in August of 2001 Mountford was awarded Vice President of the Year for the Service Provider Group. Mountford brings over 20-years of Information Technology industry experience to Cisco. Prior to joining Cisco, Mountford owned a channel development consultancy where he helped US-based companies develop successful channel strategies for successfully entering international markets. Mountford has also held several key sales positions at Azlan, Retix, Arix Systems and Norsk Data.

Frank Calderoni is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Cisco, managing the financial strategy and operations of a company with more than 64,000 employees and total revenue for fiscal year 2007 of $34.9 billion. Calderoni is committed to maximizing long-term shareholder value, ensuring a balanced portfolio of growth initiatives, and maintaining the high level of integrity and transparency that Cisco is known for. Previously as Cisco’s Senior Vice President, Customer Solutions Finance, Calderoni was able to bring about profitable growth, disciplined decision making, and transparency in Cisco’s reporting. He led the efforts to create and define the value chain for the sales and services model from which organization, staffing, compensation plans, targets, territory definition, and sales goals could be derived. He was responsible for the decision support model on investments related to sales, services, and marketing, including acquisitions. Calderoni joined Cisco in 2004 from QLogic Corporation, a storage networking company where he was the Senior Vice President and CFO. Prior to that, he was the Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration and CFO for SanDisk Corporation, a flash data storage company. Previously He spent 21 years at IBM Corporation and was promoted to Vice President prior to taking on two CFO roles. While at IBM he held CFO responsibilities for several divisions, including Global Small Business and Storage Systems, within the IBM Server Group. Calderoni holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Fordham University and a master of business administration degree in finance from Pace University.

Greg Akers is the Senior Vice President of Advanced Architecture and Development within the Advanced Research and Development Organization at Cisco. With more than two decades of executive experience, Akers brings a wide range of technical and security knowledge to his current role. A major focus of his group is to expand security awareness and launch product resiliency initiatives throughout Cisco’s development organization to deliver high-quality and secure products to customers. Akers joined Cisco in 1993. He has held a variety of technical roles at Cisco, including networking engineer and Vice President for the Worldwide Technical Assistance Center (TAC), and holds CCIE certification. In addition to his primary role, Akers is an Internet security and critical infrastructure protection advisor to Cisco customers and to the U.S. government. In this capacity he has held leadership roles, such as serving as President of the IT-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) organization in 2002 and Vice President in 2001. Akers has also advised the U.S. Department of Defense and the federal intelligence community for more than a decade. Akers is a member of the National White-Collar Crime Board and the Board of Directors of the East Carolina Infraguard. Before joining Cisco, Akers’ career included more than 15 years of designing, building, and running large networks for Fortune 100 companies. He has held senior technical and leadership roles at Fechheimer Brothers, a holding of Berkshire Hathaway, and Procter and Gamble. Akers holds a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Akron.

Ned Hooper is Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and the Consumer Group at Cisco. In his Corporate Development role, Hooper is responsible for Cisco’s global growth strategy through business development activities including acquisitions, equity investment, and the incubation of innovative technologies. As the leader of the Consumer Group, Hooper’s charter is to manage Cisco’s consumer organization and strategy, initially focused on delivering the network as the platform in the home. Hooper is a 10-year veteran of Cisco. Prior to his current role, he was Vice President of Business Development, where he led the company’s acquisition strategy focusing on growth opportunities by entering new markets and integrating innovative technologies into Cisco businesses. Through acquisitions including IronPort, Airspace, Linksys, Scientific Atlanta, and Webex, he has led Cisco’s expansion in new markets, resulting in more than $5 billion in additional annual revenue since 2002. Hooper’s strong management and direction have also created substantial strategic financial returns for Cisco. By leveraging the company’s position as a corporate venture capitalist with a $2 billion portfolio, he has helped expand Cisco’s opportunities in emerging countries and create new markets through innovation. Previously, Hooper carried out Cisco’s strategy for entering the packet telephony local services market. His product management team implemented a solution for carriers and cable operators to deliver Voice over IP services for consumers and small businesses. Hooper joined Cisco through the acquisition of Lightspeed International, where he was Director of Business Development responsible for implementing a global distribution strategy. He began his career in technology as a product manager at MCI and Concert, a joint venture between MCI and British Telecom. Hooper holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado and a master’s degree in business administration from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

Padmasree Warrior is Cisco Systems’ Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, she is responsible for helping drive the company’s technological innovations and strategy, and works closely with its senior executive team and board of directors to align these efforts with Cisco’s corporate goals. As an evangelist for what’s possible, she pushes the organization to stretch beyond its current capabilities – not just in technology, but also in its strategic partnerships and new business models. Warrior joined Cisco in 2007. Prior to that, she was the CTO at Motorola, where she led a team of 26,000 engineers and directed Motorola Labs, with an annual R&D budget of $3.7 billion. Over the course of her 23 years at that company, she served in a broad range of roles, including as Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Motorola’s Energy Systems Group, and as Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for its Semiconductor Products Sector. Warrior’s energetic, approachable and pragmatic leadership style integrates ideas from diverse sources, which include engineers, sociologists, technologists, marketers, policy experts and others. Throughout her career, she has earned a reputation for establishing processes that tap a rich diversity of technical, business and entrepreneurial IQ to nurture disruptive and breakthrough innovations, speed development time to market, and improve the way people work, live, play and learn. Under Warrior’s leadership, Motorola was awarded the 2004 National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States, the first time the company had received this honor. Recently, the Economic Times ranked her as the 11th Most Influential Global Indian, and the United States Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce recognized her with its prestigious Excellence Award. Warrior is also a strong and vocal advocate for women and minorities in math, science and engineering. In 2007, she was inducted into the Women in Information Technology International Hall of Fame, and received the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago Outstanding Woman of Achievement Award. She has been recognized as a role model by many organizations, including the Girl Scouts Illinois Crossroads Council, Notre Dame Girls High School, the South Asian Women Leadership Forum and as a Science Spectrum Trailblazer. In 2001 she was one of six women nationwide selected to receive the "Women Elevating Science and Technology" award from Working Woman magazine. Warrior is also a committed community leader. She has served on the boards of Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet and Museum of Science and Industry, the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), the Chicago Mayor’s Technology Council, Cornell University Engineering Council and advisory council of Indian Institute of Technology. She previously served on the Texas Governor's Council for Digital Economy, the White House Fellowships Selection Board, and the Technology Advisory Council for the FCC and on the Advisory U p d a t e d 0 3 / 0 8 Committee for the Computing and Information Science and Engineering of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Warrior holds a M.S. degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India. In 2007 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Engineering from New York's Polytechnic University. In addition, Warrior serves on numerous governmental, industry and charitable boards and panels. She is married, and the proud mother of one son.

Chief Information Officer Rebecca Jacoby has more than 14 years of experience at Cisco in a variety of operations and IT leadership roles. Her extensive understanding of business operations helps her advance Cisco’s business through the use of Cisco technology. Jacoby is responsible for making the Cisco IT group a strategic business partner and for producing significant business value for Cisco in the form of financial performance, customer satisfaction and loyalty, market share, and productivity. Her strong commitment to operational excellence, innovative approach to business problems, and aptitude for partnering cross-functionally are reshaping and elevating the role of IT at Cisco. Previously at Cisco, Jacoby was Vice President for Customer Service and Operational Systems and played a key leadership role on the Business Process Operations Council, which governs the transformation agenda at Cisco. Before that she was director of manufacturing for the Access business unit prior to establishing the central manufacturing planning function in 1997 and assuming responsibility for manufacturing IT in 1999. Jacoby joined Cisco as senior manufacturing operations manager. In 1996, she was recognized with the YWCA Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) award. Prior to joining Cisco, Jacoby held a variety of planning and operations positions at UB Networks, Inc. and Amdahl Corporation. Jacoby has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of the Pacific and a masters in business administration from Santa Clara University.

As Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Datacenter, Switching, and Security Technology Group at Cisco, Tom Edsall is the chief architect of the Cisco MDS 9000 storage networking platform, which was distinguished in 2003 with a Network World “World-Class Award.” Previously, Edsall was General Manager of the Data Center Business Unit, responsible for the MDS product line. Before that he was CTO and cofounder of Andiamo Systems, Inc., a storage networking startup acquired by Cisco. Prior to Andiamo, he was Vice President of Engineering at Cisco and one of the system architects responsible for the Cisco Catalyst 5000 and 6000 Series product lines. Prior to Cisco, he was a cofounder and a member of the senior engineering management team at Crescendo. Edsall holds 59 patents (28 issued, 31 pending) in the networking and storage networking fields. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Wim Elfrink has dual roles and organizations at Cisco. As Chief Globalization Officer (CGO), Elfrink is leading the company’s globalization strategy, and as Executive Vice President, Cisco Services, he is responsible for Cisco Services worldwide. In both functions, Elfrink reports directly to CEO John Chambers. He has been with Cisco since 1997. The Cisco globalization strategy represents a shift in business management from a focus on geography to a focus on skill sets and talents. Cisco will continue to have a centralized strategy, but its implementation of this strategy, which is critical to remaining successful in a competitive, global marketplace, will be decentralized. This approach touches nearly every facet of the company’s operations and creates a new way to deliver information, products, and services. As Chief Globalization Officer, Elfrink leads Cisco efforts to use innovative business models to globalize many business functions. In this process Cisco will begin to remove the geographic barriers between people and businesses through the use of enabling technologies such as Cisco TelePresence, which allows Cisco to transcend physical presence and reach more customers when and where those customers want. Elfrink is also Executive Vice President of Cisco Services, an award-winning and growing part of the business with annual revenues greater than US$5 billion. It is expected to be the first function to become fully globalized. The Services group consists of three units: Technical Support Services, Remote Operations Services, and Advanced Services. At the heart of Elfrink’s services strategy, the customer is still the focus as their needs evolve toward requiring additional, targeted support services that are delivered through specialized experts, leading practices, and tools.

As Executive Vice President of Operations, Processes, and Systems at Cisco, Randy Pond oversees the functions of Corporate Affairs, Corporate Quality, Customer Service & Support Operations, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal Services, Worldwide Manufacturing, and the Commerce Business Transformation Office. He also chairs the Business Process Operations Council and Business Oversight Board, two strategic executive councils within Cisco. To help fuel growth, drive innovation, and increase Cisco’s productivity, Pond is currently leading a comprehensive business transformation across Cisco by re-engineering business processes, re-architecting IT systems, and redefining the role of Cisco leadership. After joining Cisco in September 1993 as Director of Manufacturing Operations through the acquisition of Crescendo Communications, Pond held various positions within the Worldwide Manufacturing group. In 1995, he was promoted to Vice President of Manufacturing with responsibility for all aspects of manufacturing operations, including new product introduction, planning, procurement, productions operations, and distribution and logistics. By 2000, Pond had become Senior Vice President of West Coast and Asia operations, and over the next three years assumed responsibility for all of Worldwide Manufacturing Operations, including product fulfillment and logistics. Pond’s key accomplishments at Cisco include the establishment of consistent business processes and operational metrics across the company, double-digit productivity growth, redefinition of the manufacturing model, operationalization of Cisco’s new business models, and redesign of the employee value proposition. Prior to joining Cisco, Pond was Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer, and Vice President of Operations at Crescendo Communications. He has also held various finance and operations positions at Versatec, David Systems, Xerox Corporation, Schlumberger, and Arthur Andersen. Pond presides over the board of the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose as president, and serves as a board member for the Islamic Networks Group and the American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting and economics from Ball State University in Indiana.

Richard Justice is Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations and Business Development for Cisco. He is also a member of the Cisco Operating Committee, which develops and directs the company’s overall business strategy, and has responsibility for reporting the company’s operational results to Cisco’s Board of Directors. Justice oversees the company’s worldwide Sales organization, a team of more than 15,000 sales, systems engineering, and operations employees. In addition, he is responsible for the Business Development group, which includes the company’s acquisitions strategy and investment portfolio, and Cisco’s Strategic Alliances program. The Internet Business Solutions Group, a strategic consulting arm of Cisco, also falls under his purview. As an executive officer, Justice has played an important role in a wide variety of Cisco’s strategic and operating initiatives. He helped navigate the company through the dramatic boom, bust, and build-out cycles of the hightech industry. With an emphasis on operational excellence, he was instrumental in helping Cisco rapidly restore its healthy profitability after the high-tech bust. Then, with the build-out, his team reignited product sales to a compound annual growth rate in excess of 15 percent for the ensuing five years. He has also been a key proponent of Cisco’s strategy to capture opportunities in the emerging markets of India, China, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. By investing heavily in these regions, he helped Cisco double its business in emerging markets over a three-year period. Justice joined Cisco in 1996 as leader of Cisco Americas Field Operations. He was soon named the worldwide leader of Field Operations, and then progressively took on increasing responsibilities. He was named Executive Vice President in 2007. Before joining Cisco, Justice spent 22 years with Hewlett-Packard. His HP career included sales and marketing leadership roles, including a three-year assignment in Hong Kong leading HP’s Asia Pacific operations and his last role as worldwide leader of enterprise sales. Justice has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Santa Clara University and a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University. He is a member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council and the Santa Clara University Board of Regents.

Brad Boston runs the Global Government Solutions Group (GGSG) at Cisco Systems to advise government customers on business practices and technology solutions to achieve and enhance their mission goals. Dedicated teams address the challenges faced by global defense, space and security agencies, working with system integrator and technology partners. Another government-focused team, the Government Systems Unit, enhances existing Cisco products and develops new technologies, where required, to meet the unique requirements of governments. Boston’s organization includes the Cisco Corporate Security Programs Office, a team focused on ensuring the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of critical information and computing assets, while minimizing the impact of security procedures and policies upon Cisco’s business. It also oversees security in development practices in Cisco’s engineering organization, research in critical infrastructure protection, electronic discovery in Cisco’s legal organization, and internet security research. Previously, Boston served as the Chief Information Officer at Cisco, responsible for the company’s worldwide use of information technology. With a focus on improving the company's productivity, speed and agility, he drove Cisco’s IT foundation strategy to enable end-to-end business processes and IT efficiencies throughout the organization. Boston is a recognized team builder and leader and is known for his business acumen. His career is marked by a consistent record of technological innovation and a proven ability to adapt to diverse corporate cultures. He has successfully managed organizations in a wide range of companies that are well known for harnessing technology for enhanced services, productivity gains and competitive advantage. Before joining Cisco in 2001, Boston was the Executive Vice President of Operations at Corio, an enterprise-focused Internet ASP. At Corio he was instrumental in redefining its product offering and business model. Prior to Corio, Boston was the Executive Vice President of product development and delivery at the Sabre Group in Dallas, Texas. There he strengthened the executive team in preparation for its spin-out from American Airlines, the historic transaction that created a leading IT firm valued at more than their former parent company. In addition, he managed the early development, operations and support of Travelocity.com, led the largest system conversion in the airline industry when USAirways converted to Sabre, and architected the development and implementation of the first phases of a technology plan to modernize the Sabre system infrastructure and applications. Boston has served in executive positions at American Express, Visa, United Airlines/Covia and at American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, where he began his career. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, College of Engineering. Boston is a member of the Active Power Board of Directors, NetNumber, Inc. Board of Directors, and the E-business Advisory Board for Texas Christian University M.J. Neeley School of Business.

As Senior Vice President of Advanced Services, Gary Moore has responsibility for more than 3200 Cisco employees in 55 countries. He leads a team of experienced subject matter experts and consultants who define and implement network and network-related customer solutions to enable business success. Moore serves on the Enterprise Business Council, which leads the development and execution of Cisco’s business strategies for the enterprise market. He also serves on Cisco’s Operating Committee, responsible for the company’s long-range planning including the company vision, strategy, and execution plans. He has previously served on Cisco’s Service Provider Business Council. Moore joined Cisco in 2001 from Netigy, a network consulting company, where as CEO he led the company through 22 months of significant revenue growth while expanding its business globally. Before Netigy, he had a 26-year career at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), where he held a number of executive positions. In his last role as Senior Vice President of e.Solutions, he reported directly to EDS’ chairman and CEO. He created and grew the global business unit, the company’s fastest-growing organization with more than 20,000 employees. He also was one of six EDS group executives, who held profit-and-loss responsibility for multiple strategic business units with worldwide responsibility for all manufacturing, retail, and distribution customers. During this time he served on the EDS Global Operations Council, served on the boards of A.T. Kearny and Hitachi Data Systems, and was Vice Chairman of Unigraphic Solutions’ Board of Directors. Earlier at EDS, Moore lived in Japan and was responsible for all of EDS’s business delivered to Japanese-headquartered companies worldwide. He was also directly responsible for EDS’s wholly-owned subsidiary (EDS Japan) and for Japan Systems, a publicly traded software and services company in which EDS owned a controlling interest. While at EDS, he also was instrumental in the Hitachi/EDS purchase of National Advanced Systems, which led to the creation of Hitachi Data Systems. Subsequently he served as President and CEO of Hitachi Data Systems from 1989 through 1992. Moore serves on the boards of various privately held companies. He is an elected member of the Smithsonian National Board, an advisory group to the Institution's Secretary, founded in 1970 to advance the interests and promote the welfare of the Smithsonian, and to facilitate outreach to the community.

Inder Sidhu is Senior Vice President of Strategy & Planning, Worldwide Operations at Cisco. He also coleads Cisco’s Enterprise Business Council which is responsible for Cisco’s enterprise business, representing about half of Cisco revenues, and Cisco’s Emerging Countries Council which is responsible for driving business success in many of Cisco’s fastest growing market regions around the world including Brazil, Russia, India and China. Additionally, he is a member of Cisco’s Commercial Business Council and participates in Cisco’s Operating Committee. With Cisco since 1995, Sidhu has served in various executive management positions including Vice President of Worldwide Sales Strategy, Vice President and General Manager of Worldwide Professional Services, Vice President and General Manager of Advanced Engineering Services, and Vice President of Strategy & Business Development, Customer Advocacy. Prior to Cisco, Sidhu was with McKinsey & Company, an international management consulting firm. He has also held senior management and engineering positions at Intel, 3Com, and Novell. Sidhu is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School, and holds a master’s in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. Sidhu serves on the Board of Directors of Goodwill of Silicon Valley. He has a passion for education, teaching at Cisco’s Leadership Development programs and guest lecturing at Harvard Business School, Stanford University, and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Richard Palmer is the Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Security Technology Group at Cisco. He is responsible for Cisco’s enterprise VPN and security solutions, which include the Cisco PIX Firewall, Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator, the intrusion detection family, and Cisco 7100 Series VPN Router family. Joining Cisco in 1994, Palmer was responsible for marketing Cisco's high-end routing product line, overseeing introductions of the Cisco 7500, 7200, and 12000 Series of routers. He was also instrumental in Cisco’s NetFlow, tag switching, and IP QoS solution initiatives. Palmer has over 20 years of experience in the networking industry and has held senior marketing positions with Kalpana Inc., and Adaptive Corporation (an N.E.T. Company). Palmer holds a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard College and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

With 16 years tenure at Cisco Systems, Jeff Spagnola leads Cisco’s Worldwide Service Provider Marketing organization as Vice President since October 2004, where he is responsible for the marketing of Cisco’s solutions and technologies to service providers worldwide. As a leader of Cisco’s Service Provider Business Council, Jeff participates in the development and execution of Cisco’s Service Provider strategy. In addition to his marketing role, Jeff is responsibility for the acceleration of advanced technologies through the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and other key standards bodies. Jeff is a frequent speaker at both industry conferences and standards forums and is a spokesperson for Cisco’s service provider strategy. Jeff recently took on the position of board chair for the Center for Telecom Management (CTM), an industry-sponsored center at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, devoted to research and education to help the networked digital industry and its customers grow and prosper. Jeff also sits on the board of NXTcomm, the largest tradeshow in the United States for service providers. Jeff has cultivated his extensive networking experience through a number of leadership roles in Cisco’s service provider and enterprise field organizations. Prior to his role as vice president, Jeff was a leader of Cisco’s mobile operator customer segment and responsible for sales, strategy and operations for mobile operators within the United States. Jeff spent an additional two years leading the service provider challenger segment and independent operating companies (IOC) throughout the United States. Previous to these sales roles, Jeff was in service provider marketing managing the implementation of the Cisco Powered Network program and service provider alliance programs outside of the United States. In addition to many years working with service provider customers, Jeff had held various field leadership roles in Cisco’s enterprise sales organization focused on large customers based in Northern California. Prior to joining Cisco in 1991, Jeff spent eight years in working for NCR Corporation, Case Communications Ltd., and Develcon Electronics. Jeff holds a Bachelors of Science degree from the University of Dayton located in Dayton, Ohio. Jeff and his wife live in Los Gatos, California with their two children Jeffrey (15) and Carly (13).

Karl Meulema is Vice President, Global Strategy and Operations for Cisco Services. In his role, Meulema is responsible for managing the strategy and planning, operations, marketing and channels strategy that accelerate time to profitability and differentiation for Cisco Services, its partners, and end-customers. Meulema joined Cisco in June 2000, as Director of Services Marketing for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), where he played a pivotal role in the development and execution of a partner-focused services strategy that included the launch of the first partner-enabled advanced services offering for the region. Meulema relocated to the United States in July 2001, to lead Worldwide Enterprise/Commercial Marketing for Cisco Services. In May 2002, he assumed increased responsibility for Worldwide Services Channel Sales and Marketing. Meulema and his team reshaped the partner program landscape for technical support services, reaching new heights in the balance between partner and Cisco branded services, while increasing profitability and customer satisfaction for both the partner and Cisco. The team created the Partner Business Consulting process, using targeted business consulting with partners to enhance partner performance in customer satisfaction, revenue and profit. In March 2004, Meulema’s role within CA was expanded to VP Services Marketing and Channels, thus aligning all CA marketing functions under his leadership. He assumed responsibility for CA’s Commercial Business Council in July 2005 and spearheaded the development of the innovative Smart Care offer targeted specifically to Mid-Market customers. In response to changing market dynamics, the team launched the Collaborative Services business model which pairs the best of what Cisco has to offer with a partner’s value add in unique service offerings. Meulema was named VP of the newly formed Global Strategy and Operations organization which comprises Strategy and Planning, Operations, Marketing and Channels in August 2007. Prior to joining Cisco, Meulema spent 13 years performing a variety of corporate strategy, professional services and field sales positions for Hewlett-Packard. Meulema holds a Master’s degree in business administration from Nijenrode University in the Netherlands and a Bachelor’s degree in process control systems from The Hague University as well as a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Rotterdam University. He resides in California with his wife and one of his three children.

Mark Chandler is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Cisco, where he manages a team of 160 professionals; he has served in that role since 2001. Prior to that, he was Managing Attorney for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, based in Paris. Chandler joined Cisco in 1996 upon the acquisition of StrataCom, Inc., where he had been general counsel. He served as vice president for corporate development and general counsel of Maxtor Corporation, a Fortune 500 manufacturer of computer data storage devices, from 1988 to 1994. Chandler is also member of the Board of Directors of Lytton Gardens Senior Communities in Palo Alto, California, the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School, the Board of Trustees of Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Massachusetts, and the Advisory Council of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. He previously served as member and chairman of the City of Palo Alto Planning Commission. Chandler received a bachelor’s degree in 1978 from Harvard College and a doctor of jurisprudence from Stanford Law School in 1981.Chandler received a bachelor’s degree in 1978 from Harvard College and a doctor of jurisprudence from Stanford Law School in 1981.

Peter Alexander is Vice President of Worldwide Commercial Marketing, where he has been responsible for the marketing of Cisco's product and technology solutions to commercial market segments worldwide. Cisco's fastest growing large customer segment, the commercial segment is made up of small and medium-sized enterprises as well as mid-market companies with less than 1500 employees. Since he began his role in the fall of 2002, commercial segment revenues have grown from $3.5 billion to five billion dollars in 2005. One of his key focus areas is helping small and medium enterprises leverage Cisco communication technologies to become "smart businesses" – efficient, productive and profitable. During the communication industry's transition of 2000 and 2001, Alexander was VP of product marketing for Cisco's Catalyst 6000 LAN switching and Cisco 7000 routing families, returning them to growth and increasing profitability. In July 1998, Alexander was named Vice President of Worldwide Enterprise Marketing, where he oversaw marketing solutions, public relations, operations, and technical marketing support for Cisco's Enterprise Line of Business globally. During his tenure, Cisco's market share for the enterprise segment grew approximately 30%. In this role, he helped to drive Cisco's data, voice, and video integration strategy through a five-phase introduction leading to the AVVID Architecture announcement. Previously at Cisco, Alexander held Director of Marketing positions at both the business unit and customer segment levels. Prior to Cisco, Alexander was Executive Director of Enterprise Marketing for StrataCom, Inc. until acquired by Cisco in July 1996. He was also Director of Sales and Operations for the Asia/Pacific region for Republic Telcom Systems and held a variety of engineering and management positions at Entropic Speech, Inc. and ROLM Corporation. Alexander has an open, interactive style of management that focuses on customer relationships with an emphasis on teamwork across many organizations. He has also gained a reputation as an industry spokesperson on future of communications technology in business. Alexander is an associate member of the British Institute of Electrical Engineers. He holds a M.B.A. degree from U.C. Berkeley and a B.Eng. (Honors) Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bradford in England. Peter has three children and is a licensed private pilot.

Sameer Padhye, Vice President, Worldwide Service Provider Line of Business, is responsible for driving services and support business and strategy across worldwide Service Provider market for Cisco Systems Inc. In his previous role, Sameer worked as Vice President of Service Provider Marketing, and was responsible for marketing Cisco Systems® products, services, and solutions to a worldwide base of service provider customers. In addition, he was the company’s primary spokesperson for the service provider market when addressing Cisco’s customers, members of the press, industry analysts, and investors. Sameer joined Cisco in 1993 and has developed a broad base of cross-functional, cross-geography experience during his tenure. He has held many key positions as customer engineer, critical account manager, business development manager for Japan, director of field operations for the greater Asia region, Director of Solutions Engineering for Asia Pac region, Vice President of Service Provider Line of Business and Optical Sales in the Cisco Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. As a recipient of the expert-level Cisco CCIE® certification, he brings in-depth knowledge of networking technology to his role. Sameer completed higher studies in chemical engineering from the University Of Bombay, India, and moved to Japan for further studies. He worked in the automobile and telecommunications industries in Japan before moving to the United States to begin his career in networking. Sameer is fluent in Hindi, English, and Japanese, and holds a Commercial pilot’s license with certification to fly commercial High Performance Jet and Turbine engine aircraft. He is currently in Bangalore on an international assignment.

Sangeeta Anand is Vice President, Product Management in the Application Delivery Business Unit (ADBU) at Cisco Systems. The business unit develops application optimization solutions for the Data Center and Remote office/user that enable reliable, accelerated and secure application delivery. Her responsibilities include driving the Data Center portion of the business, product portfolio strategy, competitive strategy, product roadmaps and introduction of new products. In collaboration with other teams, she drives the technology and business partnerships, sales and field enablement, marketing programs and solutions and systems development for the Data Center Application Networking Services. Earlier, Sangeeta was Vice President, Product Management for Cisco Systems IOS™ Software - the IP software product line for over $15 Billion of router and switch business. She was responsible for product and business strategy for a wide array of IP technologies in Cisco’s IOS™ Software, including VPN, MPLS, Quality of Service, Infrastructure Security, and Routing. Her responsibilities extended to include the appropriate Market Development, OEM Technology acquisition, Competitive Analysis, Sales Support, and Field Promotion for the IOS Software technologies. Prior to Cisco Sangeeta was Director of Product Marketing at Alcatel Networks (Xylan Division) and Director of Marketing at NewBridge Networks (UB Networks Division). Her formal education includes Master of Business Administration degrees from the Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia and the University of Pune, India. She also holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc Honors) from the University of Delhi, India.

Doug Dennerline is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Collaboration Software Group at Cisco. In this position, he is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the company’s next-generation collaboration software solutions. This group is responsible for developing the company’s Software as a Service (SaaS) strategy and products, including all WebEx conferencing and collaboration offerings. In addition, Dennerline is cochair of Cisco’s Commercial Business Council, which leads the development and execution of Cisco’s business strategies for the medium-sized business market. Dennerline has close to ten years of leadership experience at Cisco and was previously Senior Vice President, U.S. Commercial, where he was responsible for all field sales, systems engineering, marketing programs, and operations necessary to achieve Cisco’s projected growth in this market segment. Under his leadership, the Commercial team consistently achieved double digit year-over-year growth. Previously, Dennerline was Senior Vice President of the U.S. Enterprise, Commercial and Federal Sales group, responsible for nearly half of Cisco’s revenue. The aggressive segmentation strategy he adopted, realigning Cisco’s U.S. sales force into customer-oriented market segments, remains in place today due to its proven and continued success. Dennerline joined Cisco in 1998 as Area Vice President for Sales in the Western U.S. Area. Before joining Cisco, Dennerline spent 10 years at 3Com Corporation where he held numerous leadership positions. Specifically, Dennerline led the Northern American Systems Channels. Prior to that role, he was Managing Director of 3Com Asia while living in Hong Kong. He also played a key role in the opening of 3Com KK, a joint venture in Japan. In 1993, Dennerline took a break from 3Com to join a startup venture called Global Village Communications as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. During his time at Global Village, the company went through its IPO, and Dennerline added marketing to his existing sales responsibilities. Dennerline began his technology career as a sales representative for Hewlett Packard. Outside of his daily responsibilities at Cisco, Dennerline actively participates as a member of the Arizona State University Information Systems Professional Advisory Board. Dennerline holds a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University.

Marthin De Beer is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Emerging Technologies Group at Cisco. De Beer formed this group over 2 years ago and is responsible for cultivating a steady stream of new businesses that can create $1 billion worth of revenue and take Cisco into new adjacent markets. Within this team and under his leadership, he has led the development of Cisco TelePresence, Digital Media Systems, Linksys One, IP Video Surveillance, and Cisco IPICs. Previously, De Beer was responsible for Cisco’s Global Enterprise IP Communications solutions and led the introduction of Cisco’s Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data solution (now Cisco Unified Communications). He played a key role in taking Cisco’s IP communications business from inception to a large profitable business. De Beer has more than 20 years of experience in the communications and software industry. He has been at Cisco for 13 years directing key platforms such as the Cisco Catalyst switching platforms and Cisco IP telephony and VoIP systems. De Beer was also a founder of two start-up companies and previously held senior marketing and engineering positions at Hughes LAN Systems, Persetel Computer Systems, and Atlas Aircraft. De Beer holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Pankaj Patel is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Service Provider Group (SPG). Patel is a member of Chairman and CEO John Chamber’s senior staff and therefore contributes to the strategic direction of Cisco as a whole. In addition, Patel is the co-chair of the Service Provider Business Council and a key member of the Cisco Development Council. Patel leads one of Cisco’s largest revenue-generating organizations. The SPG is comprised of the following: Core Routing Business Unit (BU); Edge Routing BU; Mid-range Routing BU; Service Provider Video Technology Group; Cable & Video Initiatives Group; Optical Transport BU/Cable Modem Transmission Systems BU; Services and Mobility; Central Engineering; Architecture & Systems Development; Service Provider Routing Software Group; SPG India and CDO Green Engineering. Patel joined Cisco through the company’s acquisition of Stratacom in 1996. At Stratacom, his team delivered the IGX switch in less than a year. As Senior Director of Engineering at Cisco, Patel was responsible for the Cisco IGX product line and software development for all Stratacom switches. In 1997, Patel established Cisco’s first multi-service access business unit, and developed the strategy for access routers and voice-over-packet technology and delivery. From 1999 through 2003, Patel was senior vice president of engineering at Redback Networks and responsible for the development and delivery of all Redback products. Patel held various senior management positions at Apollo Computer/HP and Digital Equipment Corporation. Earlier in his career, Patel was an entrepreneur who founded a consulting company focused on applicationspecific integrated circuit (ASIC) design, software, and computer-aided design (CAD) tools. Customers included world-class firms such as EMC, HP and other major corporations who looked to Patel’s firm to design ASIC technologies for their computing, storage, and networking products. In 2003 Patel was awarded a patent in the area of multi-service architecture. Patel holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India.

Tony Bates is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Service Provider Group (SPG). He is responsible for the overall strategy and engineering direction of SPG, a group of more than 7500 employees that generates over $10 billion in annual revenues. The Service Provider Group includes five divisions: the Service Provider Video Technology Group, Service Provider Routing Technology Group, Access and Transport Technology Group, Operations & Systems Development, and SPG India. A member of Chairman and CEO John Chambers’ senior staff, Bates is the co-chair of the Service Provider Business Council, the Cisco Development Council, the Video Council, and the Consumer Business Council. Before his current role, Bates was the Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s high-end router business. During his tenure, he was responsible for the strategy and development of Cisco’s flagship CRS-1 router, GSR, and Multi-Service WAN (MGX) product lines. Prior to Cisco, Bates spearheaded the backbone-engineering strategy for Internet MCI (MCI’s national IP backbone). Bates has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and Internet industries. He has published 12 IETF RFCs in the areas of Internet Routing and Operations, and holds 8 patents in the area of layer 2 and layer 3 innovations. Bates is a former Member of the Board of YouTube, Inc. and currently serves on the boards of Tokbox, Inc. and Bubblemotion, Inc.

Yasuki Kurosawa is Senior Advisor of Cisco Japan. His primary responsibility is to provide advice to the President of Cisco Japan based on his years of previous experience with Cisco Japan. Kurosawa joined Cisco as President of Cisco Japan in 1998 and led business expansion in the Japanese market for the next nine years. Before joining Cisco, Kurosawa held various management positions in Asia, the United States, and Japan in his 25-year career with Hewlett Packard. In 1997, he was named to the Board of Directors of Hewlett Packard Japan. He serves as a member or officer in various consortiums, including: ?? Global Management Committee in Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development ?? Association for Promotion of Public Local Information and Communication ?? Industrial Structure Council and Congress for Information Technology and Business Strategy, sponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry ?? Academy for Advanced Information Technology professionals ?? Internet Association Japan ?? Advanced Testbed Network for R&D Kurosawa completed the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Jonna Hitchcock is the director of Cisco Systems' Global Executive Talent Acquisition team responsible for meeting all of Cisco's hiring needs at the director level and above. She has worked in the high tech industry for over 20 years. At Digital Equipment, she held positions in technical sales support, professional service sales and delivery management for complex customer IT engagements. She joined Cisco Systems in 1997 as part of the Sales Operations team to help create and launch Cisco's Global Accounts organization, spending a year in Paris to lead the start-up of the European-headquartered global account teams. Upon her return, she moved to Cisco's Services division leading several areas including business operations, field and partner enablement and acquisition integration. In 2001, she stepped out of line management to tackle a key strategic issue for the business - development of its next generation leaders. This role ignited her passion for coaching and leading organizational change and quickly expanded to include all employee and leadership development as well as internal communications globally for Cisco Services. Her continued work in talent management led to the executive talent acquisition role where she is helping to create a truly differentiated model for delivering business value through strategic talent sourcing and acquisition.

Mike Allen is the Director of Channels, Distribution and Partner Alliances for Cisco in Asia Pacific. Mike reports to Keith Goodwin, Cisco's Senior Vice President, Worldwide Channels, and has responsibility over Cisco's Asia Pacific network of sales channel partners, including distributors, global strategic alliance partners, systems integrators and resellers. He is responsible for driving the strategy and development of the more than 6,000 Cisco channel partners is the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Allen was previously head of Cisco's Advanced Technology and Field Operations teams for the United States South Enterprise Area. He joined Cisco seven years ago when Cisco acquired Fibex Systems where he was Vice President of Sales. Mr. Allen has had two previous roles in the Asia Pacific theater including two years in Tokyo Japan. Mr. Allen is based in Singapore. Mr. Allen has over sixteen years experience in direct and indirect sales, operations, marketing and business and market development. He has held leadership roles in the Service Provider, Enterprise and Commercial market spaces. He has focused throughout his career on delivering business relevance based on network solutions.

Daniel Scheinman, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Cisco Media Solutions Group, is responsible for developing and marketing infrastructure products that help digital media content owners improve the content experience for consumers. In this role, he reports directly to Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers. Scheinman has been with Cisco since 1992 and previously was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, overseeing the merger and acquisition, venture investment, strategic alliance, and technology incubation functions within Cisco. Under his leadership, Corporate Development helped define how the network can serve as an innovation platform in emerging markets such as India and China. The group also completed more than 40 acquisitions, including Linksys and Scientific Atlanta. These acquisitions, in addition to Cisco’s partnering and internal engineering efforts, have positioned the Cisco Media Solutions Group as a valuable partner to companies navigating the digital disruption of the media and entertainment industry. Previously, Scheinman was the general counsel at Cisco. Scheinman has been a long-time champion for developing new, network-based distribution models for digital content. One example of his sponsorship is News@Cisco, an online portal launched in 2000 with multimedia information on Cisco’s opinion, strategy, and news. To better serve the 3 million annual visitors to News@Cisco, Scheinman oversaw the development of technology that became the basis for Cisco’s Digital Media Management business unit, launched in 2006 as part of Cisco’s Emerging Technologies Group. Scheinman holds a doctor of jurisprudence degree from Duke University Law School and a political science degree from Brandeis University.

Jonathan Chadwick is the Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller, and Principal Accounting Officer at Cisco. In this capacity he is responsible for a team of over 1000, managing external reporting, compliance, procurement, shared services, and global process, systems and controls. For the five years prior to 2006, Chadwick ran the Corporate Finance and Planning group at Cisco. In this companywide role, he designed and implemented the company’s strategic planning process and was heavily involved in Cisco’s mergers and acquisitions. In addition, he managed the company’s performance to both longterm and short-term financial goals, and he led teams responsible for Cisco’s data management and business intelligence services. Prior to 2001, Chadwick was Senior Director, Corporate Finance and Accounting, responsible for Cisco’s worldwide close process and all domestic accounting functions. He also spent much of his time supporting the business development group in merger, acquisition, and investment activities (including structuring and due diligence). Chadwick joined Cisco in September 1997 from Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers), where he had risen to audit partner. Chadwick is a Chartered Accountant in England, has passed the CPA exam in California, and holds an honors degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Bath, England.

Angel L. Mendez is Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain Management at Cisco. He leads a global organization of approximately 2000 employees who are responsible for helping enable Cisco’s growth and innovation in supply chain management practices. This includes supplier management, manufacturing and product operations, advanced sourcing, reverse logistics, manufacturing technology and quality, and demand management and planning. Mendez brings more than 24 years of management experience to Cisco, along with proven expertise in developing and implementing comprehensive strategies to improve operations and supply chain performance. Prior to Cisco, Mendez served as Senior Vice President of Global Operations for PalmOne Inc., where his operational excellence and transformation program fueled the company’s turnaround and return to profitability. A graduate of General Electric’s Manufacturing Management Program, he served 11 years with GE in increasingly responsible manufacturing and supply-chain management assignments. At Allied Signal he led the aerospace sector’s international sourcing operation and later led supply-chain efforts at Aerospace Equipment Systems, then Allied Signal’s largest business unit. While at Citigroup, he served as a division executive for global procurement, leading the consolidation of supply-chain management activities during the merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group. At Gateway Inc. he was responsible for global supply-chain management, facilitating operational improvements by upgrading the supply-chain organization, improving supplier quality, and implementing Six Sigma. Mendez’s business background includes extensive international business experience in Canada, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. He was named by Business 2.0 Magazine to the “Business 2.0 Dream Team—All Star Executives any Company Would Kill For.” In 2005, Hispanic Business Magazine placed him on its list of the “20 Most Influential Hispanic Executives in Corporate America.” He was also recently named on MACSA’s list of the “100 Most Influential Latinos in Silicon Valley.” Mendez serves on the board of directors of the Supply Chain Management Institute at the University of San Diego and the Lafayette College Board of Trustees. He is also a member of the board of directors at Springboard Forward, a Silicon Valley-based nonprofit organization dedicated to deploying innovative coaching and career development programs for low wage earners. A native of Cuba, Mendez holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College and a master’s degree in business administration from the Crummer School at Rollins College.

As senior vice president of Cisco’s Voice Technology Group (VTG), Barry O’Sullivan leads a team of voice industry executives who are responsible for Cisco’s Voice and Unified Communications Business Units. VTG is responsible for developing the company’s IP telephony systems, IP phones, customer contact solutions, and unified communications applications including messaging, video and audio conferencing, and enterprise collaboration. From 2004 to 2007 he was vice president and general manager for the IP Communications Business Unit. During this time the VTG team tripled Cisco’s Enterprise Voice business, and helped the company grow from number six to the number one market share position worldwide. Before joining Cisco, Barry spent 18 years at Nortel Networks as vice president and general manager of the contact center business and, prior to that, as vice president of Enterprise Voice for Nortel Networks Europe. Mr. O’Sullivan holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the National University of Ireland as well as a Masters degree in Business Administration from Santa Clara University, California.

Bill LePage is the Senior Vice President of Global Sales Operations (GSO) and oversees functions whose charter is to support Cisco’s sales teams to increase selling effectiveness. GSO includes sales support organizations focused on supporting field productivity and efficiencies through sales tools and process improvements, training, global account management, inside sales collaboration, sales IT, and global incentives such as Chairman’s Club. A 16-year veteran at Cisco, LePage also is a member of the Software, Commercial Business, and Business Process Operation Councils as well as the Learning Optimization Board. As part of the Connected Operations Council, LePage is co-leading the Business Effectiveness/Project Pareto initiative to help Cisco optimize operational resources and identify significant savings. He also leads the Operations Transformation Execution Board through the Connected Operations Council. Prior to his current role, LePage was Vice President of Inside Sales. He transformed this worldwide organization by creating a single, global business model. He led his team to grow bookings more than 300 percent in four years, while more than doubling productivity. LePage also served as the Vice President of both the U.S. Field Marketing and Sales Operations groups. He created new models for these organizations that significantly enhanced their capabilities to provide valued services in support of sales efforts. He began his Cisco career in 1994 as Controller for the Americas. Previously, LePage held finance and sales administration positions with Wang Laboratories and Polaroid Corporation. LePage is a member of the Boston College Technology Advisory Board and participates as a member of the San Jose Civic Council, an employee-managed group that directs philanthropic activities. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Boston College.

Blair Christie is Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications for Cisco and is responsible for leading Cisco’s global investor relations, public and media relations, industry analysts relations, employee and executive communications, as well as Cisco’s global studio and Web 2.0/Intranet Strategy teams. Christie is also an executive sponsor for Cisco’s Communication and Collaboration Board of Directors, the cross-functional team responsible for guiding the deployment and use of Web 2.0 technologies throughout Cisco. Under Christie’s leadership, in 2006, Cisco’s Corporate Communications function was founded by consolidating and leveraging synergies between communications functions spread across Cisco. She has since grown the organization into an industry leader and in 2007 Cisco received the ”Award of Excellence for Online Communities/Virtual Worlds” from the Society for New Communications Research and the “Magellan Award for Employee Communications” from the League of American Communications Professionals. Previously at Cisco, Christie led the global investor relations team and, in 2005, Treasury Risk and Management recognized Christie as “The Top 40 Under 40” US financial executives to watch. Additionally, under Christie’s leadership, Institutional Investor has recognized Cisco as having the #1 IR team in the communications equipment industry for five years in a row, while Investor Relations magazine and Barron’s awarded Cisco’s IR team with 2004’s “Best Overall Investor Relations Program” and 2007’s “Best Investor Relations by a CEO” and “Best Senior Management Communications.” Prior to joining Cisco Systems, Christie was responsible for investor relations at InterDigital Communications Corporation, where she developed and managed investor relations, as well as contributed to the company’s business development efforts. Before InterDigital, Christie managed investor relations for Aqua America, where her responsibilities also included government/public affairs and corporate giving efforts. Christie sits on Cisco’s Women’s Advisory Group and Corporate Citizenship Council. She is a Board member of the National Investor Relations Institute and Drexel University’s Communications Advisory Board. Christie is a graduate of Drexel University, in Philadelphia, PA, where she received both an MBA, concentrating in Investment Management, and a BS in business administration. Christie is married, with two daughters. Her family resides in Monte Sereno, CA.

Bob Singleton is Senior Vice President, Cisco Services for the Asia Pacific, Japan, and Emerging Markets regions. He leads a global organization responsible for technical and advanced services sales, channel sales, marketing, and customer support in all three regions, which today generate more than 20 percent of Cisco Services worldwide revenues. An experienced sales leader, Singleton has championed a number of efforts within the broader sales organization. He was instrumental in implementing a new channel model, establishing the Cisco Services brand, and building a global, high-touch sales organization. He actively collaborates across Cisco and currently sits on the Emerging Countries Council, the Customer Advocacy Sales and Channels Council, and the Customer Advocacy Delivery Council. Singleton has been with Cisco for more than 18 years. He has been in the Customer Advocacy group since 2000, first serving as Vice President for the Americas International region, encompassing Canada, the Caribbean, and all of Latin America. Over the next eight years he added Asia Pacific, Japan, and the Emerging Markets to his Cisco Services sales responsibility. Previously, he was involved with the start up of Cisco Canada and spent his first 10 years at Cisco in the Systems Engineering and Product Sales groups, where his roles included System Engineer Director, Country Manager, and Theatre Vice President. Singleton has more than 28 years experience in the networking arena and has published and spoken widely on internetworking issues.

M. Michele Burns is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mercer, a global leader for HR and related financial advice and services, and a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC). Prior to being named Chairman and CEO of Mercer in September 2006, Michele held the position of Chief Financial Officer for MMC. From 2004-2006, Michele served as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Restructuring Officer, and Executive Vice President of Mirant Corp., where she was responsible for directing the company's corporate and operational financial functions, and investor relations. As Chief Restructuring Officer, she spearheaded the development of a new capital structure and plan of reorganization two vital components in Mirant's emergence from Chapter 11. Previously, she was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Delta Air Lines, Inc. from August 2000 to April 2004. She held various other positions in the finance and tax departments of Delta beginning in January 1999. Michele's roots are within the consulting industry. She began her career with Arthur Andersen, and over the course of a successful 18-year tenure rose to Senior Partner, leading Andersen's Southern Region Federal Tax Practice, headed its U.S. Healthcare Practice and its Southeastern Region Financial Services Practice, and served on its Global Advisory Council. Michele currently serves on the board of directors of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and Cisco Systems Inc. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Elton John AIDS Foundation, where she holds the title of Treasurer.