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Vice President/General Manager, Core Routing Business Unit
Cisco

Kelly Ahuja is Vice President/General Manager of the Core Routing Business Unit at Cisco. In this role, he leads the engineering and marketing organization for part of Cisco’s service provider portfolio of routers and media gateways.

Before his current role, Ahuja was Vice President of Marketing for the Carrier Core Multi Service Business Unit at Cisco, where he led the product management and technical marketing organization for Cisco’s high-end routing portfolio as well as multiservice switches and media gateways. He previously served as Vice President of Marketing at BlueLeaf Networks, a startup developing optical switching and transmission systems that use disruptive in-house technology. In this role, he led BlueLeaf’s global marketing and business development activities. Before BlueLeaf, Ahuja was director of marketing at Cisco, where he led global marketing for the company’s premier high-end routers. Previously at Cisco and StrataCom, he led the product marketing team for the Cisco IGX 8400 Series of network switches. At StrataCom he played a major technical marketing role supporting AT&T. Before StrataCom, Ahuja led the design and deployment of data and voice networks for several organizations in AT&T Canada. He also held engineering and analyst positions with Bank of Canada and Telesat Canada, designing, implementing, and supporting data and voice networks.

Ahuja holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Calgary, Canada.