Martin Lund Joining Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team

Today, I’m excited to share an replace about Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team (ELT).

Eyal Dagan, who has led our Common Hardware Group since 2020, is taking over an vital new function at Cisco. As our new Executive Vice President, Strategic Projects, Eyal will work with me and the ELT on vital initiatives that require deep technical experience to make sure our innovation and management within the know-how business stays sturdy.

Transitioning to a brand new function is one thing Eyal and I’ve been discussing for a while, and an vital issue was discovering the correct individual to steer our Common Hardware Group, the extremely revolutionary crew that delivers the silicon, {hardware} methods, and optics for Cisco’s switching, routing, optical, cable entry, and IoT portfolios in addition to parts and white bins on to prospects.

With that in thoughts, I’m more than happy to announce that Martin Lund, an business veteran with many years of expertise driving innovation and enterprise progress within the networking and semiconductor industries, is becoming a member of Cisco as our new Executive Vice President, Common Hardware Group. Martin will be a part of our ELT and report back to me, efficient at present.

A Longstanding Partnership for Success

Eyal and Martin have a friendship and partnership going again 20 years. In 2009, because the SVP and GM of Broadcom’s Network Switching enterprise, Martin helped purchase Dune Networks, an organization co-founded by Eyal. With this longstanding relationship and their mixed experience, I’m extremely enthusiastic about what we are able to obtain for Cisco’s future.

Prior to becoming a member of Cisco, Martin was Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Azure for Operators, the place he was answerable for delivering Azure-based options for private and non-private 5G, packet core, voice, and AI operations. Before being acquired by Microsoft, Martin was Chief Executive Officer of Metaswitch Networks, a cloud native communications software program firm. In addition to his 12 years at Broadcom, the place he was instrumental in constructing the Network Switching model and rising the enterprise to greater than $1 billion, Martin has additionally held management positions at corporations similar to Cadence Design Systems and Intel.

Martin’s expertise defining technique, main international groups, and driving progress mixed along with his in depth background in networking and AI make him the correct chief to drive this vital a part of our enterprise ahead.

Accelerating Innovation and Driving Growth

While we’re simply beginning to see the numerous methods AI will form our world, one factor is obvious – the community is vital, and Cisco builds networks higher than anybody. With Splunk now formally on board, Cisco is uniquely positioned to energy and shield the AI revolution. A vital a part of that is our skill to ship world-class infrastructure and options that may deal with large quantities of knowledge – now required and foundational for AI.

I’m assured that with the sturdy basis we have now, we’ll speed up the good work the groups are doing and determine new alternatives to ship differentiated know-how and options that can gasoline the way forward for AI. With Eyal and Martin in these new roles, I do know we’ll proceed to construct on our momentum and ship unmatched innovation for our prospects.

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