Michael Dickman is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Enterprise Switching business – the foundation of how people and things everywhere connect securely and at scale. He brings a thoughtful, customer-focused approach to building the networks organizations rely on, pairing innovation with operational clarity to deliver simple, secure, and scalable network infrastructure for the AI era. Michael brings deep experience in enterprise networking and security, including five years earlier in his career leading product management for Cisco Enterprise Routing. Prior to his current role at Cisco, Michael was the Chief Product & Development Officer at Gigamon, where he led all product and engineering functions for the company. During his tenure, Gigamon grew its Cloud business high double-digits each year and expanded into Observability & Security with award-winning products. Before that, Michael was Senior Vice President of Product Management and Technical Marketing at Aruba Networks, where he accelerated cloud innovation and launched the company’s Mobile-First strategy for switching. Michael began his career at the Boston Consulting Group, gaining broad experience across technology and other industries through a wide range of strategy consulting engagements. Michael holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and A.B. degrees in Applied Math-Economics and History from Brown University.