Martin Lund Becoming a member of Cisco’s Government Management Staff

Right this moment, I’m excited to share an replace about Cisco’s Government Management Staff (ELT).

Eyal Dagan, who has led our Frequent {Hardware} Group since 2020, is taking over an vital new position at Cisco. As our new Government Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, Eyal will work with me and the ELT on vital tasks that require deep technical experience to make sure our innovation and management within the expertise business stays robust.

Transitioning to a brand new position is one thing Eyal and I’ve been discussing for a while, and an vital issue was discovering the proper individual to steer our Frequent {Hardware} Group, the extremely revolutionary group that delivers the silicon, {hardware} techniques, and optics for Cisco’s switching, routing, optical, cable entry, and IoT portfolios in addition to elements and white containers on to clients.

With that in thoughts, I’m very happy to announce that Martin Lund, an business veteran with a long time of expertise driving innovation and enterprise development within the networking and semiconductor industries, is becoming a member of Cisco as our new Government Vice President, Frequent {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 Community 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.

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

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

Accelerating Innovation and Driving Development

Whereas we’re simply beginning to see the various 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 robust basis we now have, we’ll speed up the good work the groups are doing and determine new alternatives to ship differentiated expertise and options that may 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 clients.

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