Our Path Forward
Cisco announces a realignment of resources to support strategic investment areas and a workforce reduction.
Chuck Robbins
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Articles
Expanding Our Product Organization
Martin Lund is leaving Cisco to return to the CEO role at an AI start up. Cisco’s Common Hardware Group joins the Product Organization led by Jeetu Patel.
Steve Clayton joins Cisco as Chief Communications Officer
Today, we announced an exciting update to Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team. Steve Clayton will be joining Cisco as our new Chief Communications Officer, effective January 5, 2026. Steve comes to us from Microsoft, where he has spent over 28 years in various communications and storytelling roles. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Communications […]
Updates to Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team
With the announcement of Scott Herren's retirement, Mark Patterson will step into the role as Cisco’s Chief Financial Officer on day one of fiscal year 2026. Jeetu Patel has also been promoted to President and Chief Product Officer.
Oliver Tuszik joins Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team as EVP, Global Sales
Oliver Tuszik has been named Executive Vice President, Global Sales, and will join Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team, effective April 27.
Bringing Our Portfolio Together
We are bringing our Networking, Security, and Collaboration teams together as one organization led by Jeetu Patel as he takes on an expanded role as Cisco’s EVP and Chief Product Officer.
A New Day for Cisco’s Go-to-Market
Over the last 40 years, Cisco has built one of most sophisticated and extensive Go-to-Market (GTM) engines in the industry. Today, we are taking the next step in that mission.
Martin Lund Joining Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team
Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team (ELT) is building on its strong foundation. Eyal Dagan will step into a new role as EVP of Strategic Projects, to ensure our innovation and leadership in the technology industry remains strong, and Martin Lund will join Cisco to take over as our new EVP of the Common Hardware Group.
A New Day for Data: Cisco and Splunk
Cisco - now supercharged by Splunk - will revolutionize the way customers use data to connect and protect their organizations.