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Jeetu Patel

President

Chief Product Officer

Jeetu Patel is Cisco’s Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer. He combines a bold vision, steeped in product design and development expertise, operational rigor, and innate market understanding to create high growth businesses. He is relentlessly focused on building world class products that solve Cisco customers’ biggest problems – bringing the power of the Cisco portfolio together to connect and protect every aspect of their organization in the era of AI. Previously he was Cisco’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Collaboration where he led the strategy and development for these businesses and held P&L responsibility for the multibillion-dollar portfolio. In this role, Jeetu led with his creative vision and intense focus on innovation and swift execution. Together with his team, he transformed and positioned our Security and Collaboration portfolios for success and growth. In both areas, he reinvigorated organic innovation, championed key inorganic investments, and drove simplification across these portfolios with a fanatical focus on design and user experience. Prior to joining Cisco in 2020, Jeetu was the Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Box, a role he pioneered. He led the company’s product and platform strategy, setting the company’s long-term vision and roadmap for cloud content management in the enterprise. He transformed Box from a single product application to a multi-product platform used by 100K customers representing 69% of the Fortune 500. The discipline, quality standards, performance metrics, and stability Jeetu instilled fueled the platform’s growth – nearly quadrupling revenues to $700M+. Box’s growth scaled to reach over 60M users with over 50% of customers using multiple products. He also created the Box Platform business unit where he led product strategy, marketing and developer relations – driving products from incubation stage to mature offerings. Before joining Box, Jeetu was General Manager and Chief Executive of EMC’s newly acquired Syncplicity business unit, a cloud service for Enterprise File Sync Sharing (EFSS) and collaboration. One of the first SaaS-based solutions offered by EMC, Jeetu spearheaded the company’s acquisition. He created a world class leadership team, secured some of the market’s largest customers and led the group to become one of the fastest growing EFSS companies in a highly competitive market. Other key roles at EMC included CMO for the Information Intelligence Group and Chief Strategy Officer, where he drove the organic and inorganic strategy for the division’s cloud and mobile growth. Previously, Jeetu was President of Doculabs, a research and advisory firm co-owned by Forrester Research. The firm focused on collaboration and content management across a range of industries including financial services, insurance, energy, manufacturing, and life sciences. He currently serves on the boards of JLL, an American commercial real estate services company, and Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company™. Jeetu holds a B.S. in Information Decision Sciences from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family.

Articles

May 16, 2025

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

The Future is Coming Faster than You Think

2 min read

At Cisco, we are building the core infrastructure of the AI era. As new solutions like Codex exemplify, the future of AI will be agentic. We envision a future where billions of AI agents are working together harmoniously on our behalf.

April 28, 2025

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Reimagining Security for the AI Era

3 min read

This week at RSA in San Francisco, we're launching an array of innovations aimed at helping enterprises equip their cybersecurity teams with the AI technology they need to keep their companies safe in the AI era. 

March 18, 2025

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Embracing the AI Era: Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA

3 min read

We are working with NVIDIA to deliver a strategic leap forward in AI infrastructure. Together, we plan to transform the way companies deploy, operate and secure AI Factories—data centers meticulously designed to power AI workloads. Our co-optimized architecture will enable organizations to tailor their infrastructure precisely to their AI needs, without compromising on operational simplicity or security. 

March 2, 2025

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

AI is Reshaping Global Secure Connectivity

3 min read

The AI revolution isn’t just about bigger models and smarter applications.  It’s also about the network infrastructure that enables them. As AI evolves, service providers must rethink their architectures to deliver the future of global secure connectivity.  What was impossible just months ago will soon be the baseline expectation for customers going forward. The pace […]

February 25, 2025

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco and NVIDIA Unite to Propel AI into the Enterprise

4 min read

Today Cisco and NVIDIA announced a mutual intent to expand a partnership that brings together two of the industry’s most innovative data center networking and compute leaders. Our collaboration will help enterprises accelerate AI projects and make it easier for more customers than ever to standardize on Cisco as they modernize their data center networks.

February 11, 2025

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Meeting the Moment: Innovation for Unprecedented Times 

2 min read

In 2024 and 2025, we built innovations that are both accelerating the pace of AI innovation AND helping our customers adopt and integrate AI into their business safely, securely, and cost-effectively. Read highlights of the announcements made this year's Cisco Live EMEA showing us pushing the envelope further.

January 15, 2025

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Protecting AI so AI Can Improve the World, Safely

4 min read

You need to move fast with AI, but you absolutely cannot afford to sacrifice safety and security for speed. Announcing Cisco AI Defense—a solution designed to eliminate this tradeoff and empower you to innovate fearlessly.

November 25, 2024

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Not Ready For AI? Time To Lay The Groundwork

4 min read

In our recent Cisco AI Readiness Index, we found that only 13% of organizations consider themselves ready to capture AI’s potential, even though urgency is high. Companies are investing, but close to half of respondents say the gains aren’t meeting expectations. Here’s how organizations can get themselves better prepared.

October 23, 2024

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

How Cisco is Using Apple Vision Pro to Create the Next Evolution of Spatial Collaboration

2 min read

Cisco has always had an obsession of putting the user experience at the center of everything we do. Today marks another step in this evolution with Cisco Spatial Meetings for Apple Vision Pro. It takes a concept we call “Distance Zero” to the next level using spatial computing.

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