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Leslie McKnew
SVP, Deputy General Counsel, Regulatory Affairs
Regulatory Affairs
Leslie McKnew is Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, leading Cisco’s Regulatory Affairs organization with Cisco’s Legal department. She leads a team focused on a broad range of regulatory topics, including, among others, data and privacy, global trade, cybersecurity, ESG, environmental affairs, and telecommunications.
Leslie has held several other leadership roles at Cisco. She led Cisco’s global litigation and employment law teams, as well as the legal team focused on Cisco’s data and collaboration businesses. Leslie also spent a year in a business role focused on developing and launching software buying programs. She joined Cisco as its first in-house trademark counsel and built the trademark function and team.
Prior to Cisco, she was an associate at the Morgan Lewis law firm focused on IP and commercial litigation. She has a BA degree in Political Science from the University of California, Davis, and graduated from the University of San Francisco School of Law.
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