Chandrodaya Prasad

Chandrodaya Prasad is a Senior Director of Product Management in Cisco’s Security Business Group (SBG). In this role he oversees product management and technical marketing for Cisco’s industry leading Cloud Workload, Web and Network security portfolio. Previously, he served as the Vice President of Product Management driving Viptela’s SD WAN strategy and adoption as well as integration into Cisco post acquisition. Prior to that, Prasad was a Senior Director of Products, at Cisco’s Enterprise Networking (EN) group where he had P&L responsibility for Cisco’s $4B Integrated Services Router (ISR) portfolio and drove the strategy and vision for Cisco’s NG Branch encompassing Software Defined WAN (SD WAN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Security and IoT. Throughout his product management career, he has honed the art of capturing trends early to drive innovation and holds multiple patents in the areas of WAN, IoT, Collaboration & Cloud architectures. Prasad’s early career in software engineering and technical marketing roles provided the foundation upon which he developed deep expertise across global Enterprises, Service & Cloud Providers. Prasad has a Master’s degree in Computer Science (graduated with honors) from Western Michigan University and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication from Bangalore University.