Shruti Jain

Shruti Jain is the lead for thought leadership and data driven insights within Cisco’s x-architectural marketing team in Enterprise Networking and Cloud organization. Her latest project is Cisco’s Hybrid Work Index , that identifies work trends based on data and insights from various Cisco platforms across people and culture, collaboration, security, and networking. In her previous role as a senior analyst on Cisco’s SP thought leadership team she has been a key contributor and spokesperson for Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI)—forecasting and analyzing the growth and use of the Internet and IP networks worldwide. She was also the lead analyst for Cisco Global Cloud Index (GCI)—forecasting the growth of global data center and cloud-based IP traffic as well as analysis of trends associated with data center virtualization, public vs. private cloud computing. She has deep knowledge about the Internet and service adoption, evolution of smart/ multi-media devices and machine-to-machine connections, applications by vertical, mobile adoption of various generations of technologies including 2G to 5G and IoT specific LPWA, cord-cutting, SD, HD and UHD adoption of video, metro vs. edge analysis. Shruti is a Cisco veteran and has been with the company for over 20 years. She started her career with the company as a financial analyst and then moved on to marketing, where she has had a variety of marketing analyst roles (supporting service provider segment, corporate marketing, and now enterprise marketing). Shruti has had prior experience with Unisys as a financial analyst and worked as a marketing intern with Maruti Suzuki, an Indian car manufacturing company. She has earned an M.B.A. degree from Santa Clara University, California and has M.A. in Economics from University of Rajasthan, India. Her personal hobbies and interests include traveling, reading, hiking, and learning new languages and cultures.