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Anuj Kapur
www.linkedin.com/in/a2kapur Chief Strategy Officer at Cisco
(LinkedIn) San Francisco Bay Area

Top Skills Summary

Product Management
Anuj Kapur is the Chief Strategy Officer at Cisco. He leads a group
Product Marketing
that partners with the Executive Leadership team and General
Business Strategy
Managers to drive the company’s overall strategic direction. He also
has responsibility for Cisco’s Strategic Alliances, focusing on select
partners with whom the company drives co-development around key
markets. Anuj also sits on the review board for Cisco Investments,
helping guide the company’s efforts with startups and the global
venture community.

Anuj was previously in the Networking & Security Business group

where he led the Strategy function for the $32bn business, Product
Management for Enterprise Agreements and worked extensively
on Cisco’s transition towards a subscription business model. Anuj
joined Cisco in 2005 in the M&A/Investments team, with a focus on
Networking, eventually transitioning into Product Management roles
in Mobility and Security. He was previously at AMD and Deloitte.

Anuj has an MBA from Wharton and an Electrical Engineering

degree from the University of Waterloo. He grew up in India, Kenya,
and Canada, and spends his free time supporting the Bay Area
coffee scene.

Experience
CNBC
Technology Executive Council
2019 - Present 
San Francisco Bay Area

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/meet-the-cnbc-technology-executive-
council.html

Cisco
Chief Strategy Officer
September 2018 - Present 
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San Francisco Bay Area

Cisco
13 years

Senior Vice President, Networking & Security

2015 - April 2018 (3 years)
Led Strategy function for the $32bn Networking & Security Business Group,
as well as Business Development/Partnerships for the Enterprise Networking
(Switching, Routing, Wireless, IoT) Business.

Lead team with Product Management responsibility for Enterprise Agreements

as well as pricing and forecasting across Cisco’s Security Business.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/software/security-enterprise-license-
agreement/index.html

Vice President, Corporate Strategy

2011 - 2015 (4 years)
Product/Go-to-Market and Growth Strategy (12+ month) and Strategic
Partnerships

Product Group focus:

Security segment (Network, Content and Cloud Security) www.cisco.com/go/
security
Service Provider segment (Mobility, Routing and Video) www.cisco.com/go/sp

Director, Product Management (SP Wi-Fi)

2011 - 2011 (less than a year)
Product Management at solution level for #1 Market Share Carrier Wi-Fi suite

Director, Corporate Development

2005 - 2010 (5 years)
Most recently, led team with global responsibility for non-organic growth
strategies (M&A/Venture Investing) for Cisco's SP Mobility/Video groups

• Acquisitions – Starent Networks (Nasdaq:STAR), CoreOptics, Inc.,

ExtendMedia Corp., Inlet Tech., Tivella, Inc.
• Investments – BNI Video (acq. CSCO), Lightwire (acq. CSCO), Move
Networks (acq. Echostar), Entropic Comm. (IPO), Compass-EOS

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ATI Technologies (now AMD, Inc.)

Corporate Development Intern
May 2004 - August 2004 (4 months)
• Acquisitions – India-based CuTe Technologies (Audio/Video DSPs)
• Strategy – Smartphone silicon roadmap. Focus on app. co-processors,
GPUs, and image sensors

Education
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Major in Finance

University of Waterloo
BASc, Electrical Engineering

Delhi Public School

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