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Jeetu Patel

President

Chief Product Officer

Jeetu Patel is Cisco’s President and Chief Product Officer, leading global product vision and strategy. Under his leadership, Cisco has driven innovation across its broad portfolio of products, establishing the company as the critical infrastructure for the AI era. Patel joined Cisco in 2020 to lead the collaboration and security business. He quickly became recognized for his commitment to product design and user experience, leading the team through a period of rapid innovation to transform Webex and support customers through the global pandemic. In 2024 he was promoted to the role of Chief Product Officer, where he now leads several multibillion-dollar categories, including networking, computing, security, Splunk, silicon, optics, hardware systems, and more. A recognized expert in artificial intelligence and product strategy, Patel’s held senior leadership roles at Box, EMC, and Doculabs. Jeetu also serves on the board of JLL. He holds a B.S. in Information Decision Sciences from the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Articles

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.

Cisco Security at Cisco Live 2024: Innovating at Scale

5 min read

No matter how reliable and performant your network is, it doesn’t matter if it’s not secure. To help make the world a safer place, we need to reimagine security.

April 18, 2024

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Hypershield: Security reimagined — hyper-distributed security for the AI-scale data center

4 min read

Introducing Cisco Hypershield, a cloud-native approach to highly-distributed security for data centers that’s AI-powered and built into the fabric of the network.

February 6, 2024

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

How Cisco, together with Apple, is tackling the next frontier of hybrid work — spatial computing

2 min read

Cisco and Apple today announced Webex for Apple Vision Pro. This marks another step in our ongoing commitment to providing the best possible experiences on Apple devices, and offering the greatest flexibility in when, where and how people work.

December 5, 2023

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

How We’re Making AI Pervasive in the Cisco Security Cloud

4 min read

AI is redrawing the lines between defender and attacker and, for the first time, the scales are tipping in favor of the defenders because of a data advantage. With AI, we can correlate data on a massive scale, see more attacks, and contain attacks faster to minimize damage.

June 6, 2022

SECURITY

Security Resilience for a Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Future

3 min read

Cisco announces its open security platform that eliminates vendor lock-in. The Cisco Security Cloud is a cloud-delivered, integrated platform and next-level solution that secures and connects organizations of any shape and size on a global scale.

November 16, 2021

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

The Hybrid Work Maturity Model: Where does your organization stand?

4 min read

How far has hybrid work evolved, and what more needs to be done? Cisco's new joint research effort with IDC, the Hybrid Work Maturity Model will assist organizations in assessing where they are in their hybrid work journeys, and what they need to do to achieve their goals.