Liz Centoni

Senior Vice President and General Manager
Cisco Computing Systems Product Group

Liz Centoni is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Computing Systems Product Group. She sets the business and engineering direction, strategy, solutions and priorities for the company’s Data Center Compute business, which includes the flagship Unified Computing Services (UCS) and HyperFlex product families.

Prior to her current role, Liz was Vice President of Engineering Strategy and Portfolio Planning. As a key member of the engineering leadership team, she was responsible for shaping, guiding and managing Cisco’s engineering strategy and execution across the company’s routing, switching, security, mobility, video, collaboration, data center and cloud offerings.

She has also served as Vice President/General Manager of the Service Provider Access Group where she led strategy, marketing direction and engineering efforts to grow Cisco’s portfolio of Carrier Ethernet Access solutions.

Since joining Cisco in 2000, Liz has a strong track record in various engineering roles where she was instrumental in bringing to market industry-leading products and managing global teams.

Mentorship, talent development and leadership are an important priority for Liz and she is an active mentor and sponsor of underrepresented groups. She launched the Women in Engineering Leadership Forum at Cisco and is the Cisco Global Executive Sponsor for the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program. Liz is a proud recipient of the YWCA 2015 TWIN award, Cloud NOW 2015 Top 10 Women in Cloud award, and Million Women Mentors 2015 Mentor of the Year award.

Liz Centoni's Articles

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  Executive Platform

  60,000 Cisco UCS Customers and Counting

  Liz Centoni - June 13, 2017 - 9 Comments

  They said we were crazy. Back in 2009, when we unveiled the Cisco Unified Computing System, industry pundits – namely our competitors in the server market – said we’d overreached

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  Executive Platform

  Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack

  Liz Centoni - February 9, 2017 - 3 Comments

  Enterprises need a scalable, flexible hybrid cloud solution that 1) responds with agility and ease, 2) is simple-to-manage, and 3) scales on demand, while retaining on-premise benefits. Where you are

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  Executive Platform

  Active Data Demands Agile Infrastructure

  Liz Centoni - November 1, 2016 - 2 Comments

  By now, we’ve all heard the estimate that by 2020, 50 billion devices will be connected. Some estimates are higher, some lower, but we can all agree…it’s a lot. What

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  Life At Cisco

  3 Things to Look For When Choosing a Company

  Liz Centoni - January 6, 2016 - 42 Comments

  Recently I had the opportunity to talk to a group of students who had a decision to make. They had multiple job offers, a good problem to have, but could

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  Inclusion and Diversity

  Cisco Women Engineers Make Their Mark at the IEEE Women In Engineering International Leadership Conference

  Liz Centoni - June 16, 2015 - 2 Comments

  In April this year, Cisco sponsored the IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference held at the San Jose Marriott. This was part of a concerted effort to advance and

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  Inclusion and Diversity

  Join The Internet of Women@Cisco and Invent Together!

  Liz Centoni - April 3, 2015 - 5 Comments

  Inspire and connect women, celebrate achievements, encourage more women into technical and leadership roles, recruit men to be advocates for women, make a measurable difference. We can’t wait for the

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