Cisco executive team & leadership
Cisco's executive team includes 12 tracked leaders as of August 2026, led by Chuck Robbins (Chair and Chief Executive Officer). The org chart, per-leader profiles and full leadership list are below.
Cisco executive team overview
Cisco has 12 tracked executives leading key functions including company strategy and operations, financial strategy, product strategy, a key function (as of August 2026). Cisco Systems, Inc. builds the networking, security, collaboration and observability infrastructure that carries most enterprise traffic, and it has done so since Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner founded the company in San Jose in 1984. The common stock trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker CSCO, the company is incorporated in Delaware, and its corporate headquarters is an owned campus at 170 West Tasman Drive in San Jose, with regional headquarters in Amsterdam for EMEA and Singapore for Asia Pacific, Japan and China. Fiscal year 2026 ended on July 25, 2026 and closed at 63.3 billion dollars of revenue, up 12 percent, with GAAP net income of 13.3 billion dollars and a GAAP operating margin of 24.3 percent. The fourth quarter alone brought 17.3 billion dollars of revenue, up 18 percent, and total product orders up 35 percent year over year, a run the company describes as a networking supercycle. The clearest driver is artificial intelligence infrastructure: hyperscalers placed 9.3 billion dollars of orders across fiscal 2026, 4 billion of them in the fourth quarter, and management guides that business to 7.5 billion dollars of revenue in fiscal 2027. The portfolio spans campus and data center networking, Silicon One switching silicon, security including the Splunk observability platform acquired in 2024, collaboration through Webex, and services. Roughly 86,200 employees work across the United States, EMEA and Asia, under chair and chief executive officer Chuck Robbins, who has held the job since July 2015.
Cisco executive team org chart
Employees by management level
EstimatedLeadership team
| Name | Title | Location | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chuck Robbins | Chair and Chief Executive Officer | View → | |
| Mark Patterson | Chief Financial Officer | View → | |
| Jeetu Patel | President and Chief Product Officer | View → | |
| Liz Centoni | Chief Customer Experience Officer | View → | |
| Francine Katsoudas | Chief People, Policy and Purpose Officer | View → | |
| Dev Stahlkopf | Chief Legal Officer | View → | |
| Thimaya Subaiya | Executive Vice President, Operations | View → | |
| Oliver Tuszik | Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Chief Sales Officer | View → | |
| Carrie Palin | Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer | View → | |
| Ammar Maraqa | Chief Strategy Officer | View → | |
| Eyal Dagan | Executive Vice President, Strategic Projects | View → | |
| Steve Clayton | Chief Communications Officer | View → |
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Cisco executive team roles
Chuck Robbins · full profile →
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Chuck Robbins has been chief executive officer of Cisco since July 2015, a member of the board of directors since May 2015 and chair of the board since December 2017. He joined the company in December 1997 and spent his first years in its sales organisation, becoming vice president in March 2002 with responsibility for United States channel sales, adding Canada channel sales in July 2005, then senior vice president for United States Commercial in December 2007, for United States Enterprise, Commercial and Canada in August 2009, for the Americas in July 2011 and for Worldwide Field Operations in October 2012, the post he held until taking the chief executive role. His fiscal 2026 closed at 63.3 billion dollars of revenue with hyperscaler artificial intelligence orders of 9.3 billion dollars, a year he described as another record for the company. He also sits on the board of directors of BlackRock, Inc.
Mark Patterson · full profile →
Chief Financial Officer
Mark Patterson is executive vice president and chief financial officer of Cisco, a role he took on the first day of fiscal year 2026 in July 2025 when Scott Herren retired after nearly five years. He joined Cisco in September 2000 and has spent his entire twenty five year career there, serving as executive vice president and chief strategy officer from March 2024 to July 2025, as senior vice president and chief of staff to the chair and chief executive officer from October 2018 to March 2024, as senior vice president for strategy, planning and operations for worldwide sales and marketing from July 2015 to October 2018, and in a series of finance and leadership roles before that. Presenting his first full year as chief financial officer in August 2026, he pointed to fiscal 2026 as the company's highest productivity year in three decades measured by revenue, non GAAP operating margin and earnings per employee.
Jeetu Patel · full profile →
President and Chief Product Officer
Jeetu Patel is president and chief product officer of Cisco, promoted to the combined role in May 2025 after nine months as executive vice president and chief product officer. He joined Cisco in July 2020 as senior vice president and general manager for Security and Collaboration, became executive vice president and general manager of that business in June 2021, and took the company wide product remit in August 2024. Before Cisco he was chief product officer and chief strategy officer at Box, Inc. from September 2017 to July 2020 and senior vice president of platform and chief strategy officer there from August 2015, and earlier ran the Syncplicity business unit of EMC Corporation as general manager and chief executive. He owns the unified product strategy behind the AgenticOps platform work, the Silicon One roadmap and the security portfolio, and he sits on the board of directors of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated.
Liz Centoni · full profile →
Chief Customer Experience Officer
Liz Centoni is executive vice president and chief customer experience officer of Cisco, where she runs a 15 billion dollar services business and an organisation of roughly 20,000 people covering professional services, customer success, technical support and the renewals engine for software and services. She previously served as executive vice president and chief strategy officer, a period in which she led the 28 billion dollar acquisition of Splunk in 2024, and before that as general manager of Applications for the software as a service portfolio, as senior vice president and general manager of the Cloud, Compute and IoT business, and as vice president and general manager of the Service Provider Access Group, having started in engineering leadership. She holds a bachelor of science in chemistry from the University of Mumbai and an MBA from the University of San Francisco, and she sits on the supervisory board of Mercedes-Benz AG and the board of Workday.
Francine Katsoudas · full profile →
Chief People, Policy and Purpose Officer
Francine Katsoudas is executive vice president and chief people, policy and purpose officer of Cisco, an unusually broad remit that puts People and Communities, Social Impact and Sustainability, Government Affairs, the 3P Technology Office, Workplace Resources, Cisco Learning and the Digital Impact Office under one executive. She has spent about thirty years at the company and has led several of its large organisational transformations. She runs Country Digital Acceleration, the programme behind more than 1,600 digital transformation projects in over 50 countries, and she serves as executive country sponsor for Mexico, Poland, South Africa and India. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, she was named a CNBC Changemaker in 2026 and appears on the Forbes 50 Over 50 list. She sits on the board of ADP and chairs Global Citizen.
Dev Stahlkopf · full profile →
Chief Legal Officer
Dev Stahlkopf, who files with the Securities and Exchange Commission as Deborah L. Stahlkopf, is executive vice president and chief legal officer of Cisco, a role she has held since joining the company in August 2021. She spent fourteen years at Microsoft beforehand, most recently as corporate vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for Corporate, External and Legal Affairs from April 2018 to July 2021, and earlier as vice president and deputy general counsel from December 2015 and associate general counsel from December 2010. Before Microsoft she practised law at Perkins Coie LLP and at Cooley Godward LLP. Her remit covers a company incorporated in Delaware, listed on Nasdaq and operating in more than fifty countries, and it has carried the legal work on an active acquisition programme that closed Galileo Technologies and Astrix Securities in fiscal 2026. She has served on the board of directors of NextEra Energy, Inc. since 2023.
Thimaya Subaiya · full profile →
Executive Vice President, Operations
Thimaya Subaiya is executive vice president of operations at Cisco, in post since March 2024. He joined the company in July 2018 and served as senior vice president and chief transformation officer from March 2023 to March 2024, as senior vice president and general manager of Customer Experience from November 2021 to March 2023, and as senior vice president for Customer Experience operations and renewals from July 2018. Before Cisco he spent eight years at Salesforce, Inc., latterly as chief operating officer of Customer Success, and earlier held business development and global planning and strategy roles at Oracle Corporation. His remit spans the operating rhythm of a company that shipped 63.3 billion dollars of revenue in fiscal 2026 while absorbing a supply chain rebuild around artificial intelligence infrastructure demand. He has served on the board of directors of Genpact Limited since 2025.
Oliver Tuszik · full profile →
Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Chief Sales Officer
Oliver Tuszik is executive vice president of global sales and chief sales officer at Cisco, a role he took in April 2025. He joined the company in July 2013 as vice president and country leader for Germany, became senior vice president of the Worldwide Partner Organization in July 2018, then senior vice president for global partner and routes to market sales in December 2020, and senior vice president for EMEA sales from August 2023 until his promotion. Before Cisco he spent more than ten years at Computacenter AG and Co. oHG, most recently as chief executive officer for Germany. He owns the field organisation behind fourth quarter fiscal 2026 product orders up 35 percent year over year, and up 25 percent excluding hyperscalers, with double digit growth in every geography and customer market.
Carrie Palin · full profile →
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
Carrie Palin is senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Cisco, responsible for regional field marketing, digital, partner marketing, corporate brand, sponsorships and global events. Under her tenure Interbrand ranked Cisco the number one pure business to business brand globally, and she led the redesign of cisco.com. She arrived from Splunk, where she was chief marketing officer and drove the 2019 brand repositioning, and before that she was chief marketing officer of SendGrid through its acquisition by Twilio, the first chief marketing officer of Box, vice president of marketing for the Cloud Data Services and Analytics division at IBM, and spent more than sixteen years at Dell in global go to market strategy and data center portfolio marketing. She holds a bachelor of science from Texas Christian University, sits on the boards of NetApp and DemandScience, and was named to the Forbes list of the world's most influential chief marketing officers in 2023 and 2024.
Ammar Maraqa · full profile →
Chief Strategy Officer
Ammar Maraqa is senior vice president and chief strategy officer of Cisco, owning corporate strategy, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, venture investments, the incubation of emerging technologies, market access, corporate planning and business cadence. He came to Cisco through the 28 billion dollar acquisition of Splunk, where he had spent ten years as senior vice president and chief strategy officer and helped grow annual recurring revenue from 300 million to 5 billion dollars while the company moved to cloud delivered software. This is his second tenure at Cisco: he previously spent ten years there as vice president of corporate development and strategy, running the corporate strategy team and acquisition integration. He started his career as a senior associate at Bain and Company and spent five years at Dell in product, marketing and operational leadership. He holds dual bachelor's degrees in computer engineering and finance from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
Eyal Dagan · full profile →
Executive Vice President, Strategic Projects
Eyal Dagan is executive vice president of strategic projects at Cisco, a role he has held since March 2024, focused on keeping the company ahead of fast moving shifts in silicon and systems technology. He came to Cisco in March 2016 through the acquisition of Leaba Semiconductor, which he co-founded and ran as chief executive officer. Before Leaba he was vice president and general manager at Broadcom, where he owned the DNX switching and routing line. He brings more than twenty five years of senior management and engineering experience in the semiconductor industry, the discipline behind the Silicon One programme that Cisco now positions at the centre of its artificial intelligence infrastructure business, a business that took 9.3 billion dollars of hyperscaler orders in fiscal 2026.
Steve Clayton · full profile →
Chief Communications Officer
Steve Clayton is senior vice president and chief communications officer of Cisco, having joined on January 5, 2026. He arrived from Microsoft, where he spent more than twenty eight years, most recently as vice president of communications strategy and chief storyteller, working with senior leadership on communications and on the culture change programme the company ran over that period. He also led Microsoft's global public affairs team and owned its storytelling properties, including the application of artificial intelligence inside the communications function itself. He took the Cisco role in the year the company posted record fiscal results and repositioned itself around artificial intelligence infrastructure, which puts the narrative for that shift, and for a 40 year old brand, inside his remit.