Speakers
Charles H. Giancarlo, Senior Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Systems, Inc. and President, Cisco-Linksys, LLC
As Chief Technology
Officer, Charles Giancarlo plays a key role in contributing to and communicating
Cisco's technology strategy and vision. In addition, he holds the senior
leadership role for two groups, Voice Technology and Global Government
Solutions. 
In another key role, Giancarlo is President of Cisco-Linksys, LLC, an independent division of Cisco providing wired and wireless products for the high growth consumer and SOHO networking market. Cisco-Linksys is the home networking leader, with a market share of more than 40% and revenues of over $500 million. Linksys is expanding its business internationally and among Service Providers, as well as continuing to build market share among the company's core users.
Giancarlo also co-chairs the Cisco Enterprise Business Council and is responsible for developing and executing Cisco's business strategies for this important customer segment. Previously, he ran the Cisco Service Provider Business Council, directing a cross-functional executive team focused on helping Service Providers make the transition to new packet-based services and infrastructures.
Earlier at Cisco, Giancarlo ran the Commercial Line of Business, developing leading-edge high volume networking products and driving Cisco brand awareness among companies of all sizes. During his tenure, Cisco's stackable switching and access routing brand shares grew significantly and Cisco led the industry with award-winning wireless LAN and stackable Layer 3 Ethernet switch introductions.
Giancarlo joined Cisco in December 1994 and shortly thereafter became Vice President of Business Development, successfully developing Cisco's merger and acquisition strategy and practice. In this position he played an instrumental role in Cisco's first 18 acquisitions and 20 investments. He then moved on to become Senior Vice President of Global Alliances, building the organization responsible for developing an ecosystem of strategic alliances with companies such as IBM, Accenture, Microsoft and Sprint to enable the Internet industry worldwide.
Giancarlo came to Cisco through the acquisition of Kalpana, Inc., the pioneer in Ethernet switching, where he was Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development. 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. While with Adaptive, Giancarlo founded the ATM Forum, a successful alliance of over 600 companies focused on the development of ATM technology. He also holds multiple patents in the areas of ATM and voice technologies.
Giancarlo holds an M.B.A. from Harvard and M.S. and B.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and Brown University, respectively.