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Michael Dickman
Michael Dickman
Senior Vice President & General Manager
Campus Networking
Michael Dickman is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Campus Networking 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 leadership to this role, 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.
Articles
Campus networks are evolving as people, agents, devices, and autonomous systems interact in real time. Cisco delivers AgenticOps, machine-speed trust, and AI-ready infrastructure to help organizations operate securely and scale efficiently.
Security and resiliency are prerequisites for the agentic enterprise Every major technology wave eventually forces a rethink; in the AI era, that rethink starts with the network. This week at Cisco Live, AI has been a central theme, reshaping applications, operations, and security. But a more foundational shift is underway: the enterprise network itself is […]
Today, at Interop in New York, we are introducing to our customers and partners four new platforms that extend what we started with the award winning architecture of the Cisco ISR 4451 into a complete family of Cisco 4000 Series of Integrated Services Routers (ISRs) designed and priced for all branch offices sizes and needs. […]
[WARNING: This blog post contains specifics on actual product features. Stop reading now if you prefer PowerPoint to Excel.] “Enterprise class.” Sounds awesome. But does it have any meaning to your business? It turns out that it does, but we need to dig into a real product example to make it clear. One shining example […]
