Hilton Romanski

Senior Vice President
Chief Strategy Officer

In his role as Cisco's Chief Strategy Officer, Hilton Romanski is responsible for shaping Cisco’s corporate strategy and applying tools that allow Cisco to anticipate and lead market transitions. Hilton oversees Cisco’s $2 billion venture and private equity investment portfolio, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, the integration of new business models, and fostering disruptive innovations.

Hilton Romanski's Articles

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  Hilton Romanski Embracing Disruption, Redefining Cisco’s Approach

  August 30, 2018 - 3 Comments

  Hilton Romanski elaborates on Cisco’s innovation strategy and how the company embraces disruption.

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  Cisco’s 200th Acquisition— a Tradition of Advancement, Disruption and Growth

  October 19, 2017 - 4 Comments

  Cisco’s ability to successfully acquire and integrate innovative companies is an industry gold standard. Today, this acquisition engine has achieved a major milestone with the announcement of Cisco’s 200th acquisition.

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  CSO Women’s Professional Development Day: Celebrating 5 Years!

  September 25, 2017 - 4 Comments

  We recently celebrated our 5th Annual Women’s Professional Development Day on Thursday, August 31st, sponsored by Cisco’s Corporate Strategy Office (CSO). Our theme for this year’s event was Making Empowerment

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  My Takeaway at the Bloomberg BreakAway and Milken Institute Summits

  May 19, 2017 - 1 Comment

  For CEOs and CFOs pursuing growth, market understanding and actionable insights, the Bloomberg BreakAway Annual Summit has been a key event to attend. I had the pleasure of participating in

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  Celebrating the Future of Cisco and AppDynamics

  March 22, 2017 - 11 Comments

  Today, I had the sincere honor to stand with leaders of AppDynamics to ring the Nasdaq opening bell. I can now say that AppDynamics and Cisco are one team. In

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  CSO Women’s Development Day

  September 26, 2016 - 4 Comments

  Our 4th Annual CSO Women’s Professional Development Day, hosted by Cisco’s Corporate Strategy Office, was held in San Jose last week. Aimed at providing education, development and inspiration to employees

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  CSO Professional Women’s Day: The Power of “Story”

  September 10, 2015 - 2 Comments

  Growing up, my grandfather and I were very close.  As a boy and young man, I learned a lot about the world from the stories he would tell me on

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  Technicolor Acquires Cisco’s Connected Devices Division

  July 22, 2015 - 0 Comments

  Today, Technicolor announced it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Cisco to acquire our service provider video customer premises equipment (CPE) business for $600 million (or €550 million equivalent)

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  Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire OpenDNS

  June 30, 2015 - 5 Comments

  Every day, more people, processes, data and things become connected. As this trend continues to grow exponentially, so too, do opportunities for security breaches and malicious threats. With an estimated

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  Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Piston Cloud Computing

  June 3, 2015 - 23 Comments

  Cloud computing has fundamentally altered the IT landscape: dramatically boosting IT agility, while lowering costs. To realize the business advantages of cloud, organizations are shifting to a hybrid IT model—blending

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