Mayor's Technology Summit:
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Charlie Giancarlo
Senior Vice President and General Manager
Switching, Voice and Storage
Cisco Systems, Inc.
President
Cisco-Linksys, LLC
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Charlie
Giancarlo holds several key roles within Cisco Systems, Inc., the worldwide
leader in networking for the Internet. He leads four groups in the Cisco
development organization, including the technology team responsible for
Network Switching, as well as groups focused on emerging technologies and
new markets: voice, storage and security. Giancarlo also chairs the Cisco
Enterprise Business Council and is responsible for developing and executing
Cisco's business strategies.
In addition, he is president of Cisco-Linksys, LLC, an independent division of Cisco that was acquired in early 2003, providing wired and wireless products for the high growth consumer and the SOHO networking market.
Prior to joining Cisco, Giancarlo was vice president of marketing and corporate development for Kalpana, Inc. He was also a cofounder and vice president of marketing for Adaptive Corporation, which developed the industry's first Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) product for the LAN market.
Giancarlo holds an MBA from Harvard and an MS and BS in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and Brown University, respectively.