Pankaj Patel, senior vice president and chief development officer, Cisco has decided to relinquish his role in the second half of this calendar year.
Cisco His departure comes just four months after the release of Chief Technology and Strategy Padmasree Guerrero.
Cisco Patel out the long list of executives multiple outputs after Chuck Robbins was appointed the new CEO of Cisco by the outgoing CEO, John Chambers in May adds. President and COO Gary Moore and President of Sales Development and Rob Lloyd, who considered the best candidates for the role of CEO after Chambers announced his decision to leave most of the management reorganization, both with the launch Cisco, on July 25, 2015, the last day of the exercise of the primary network connection.
Other top-level outputs, first vice president of Cisco Services Edzard Overbeek, director of globalization Wim Elfrink, vice president, Cloud and Managed Services Edison Peres, and Vice President, World Organization membership, Bruce Klein, who left in quick succession last year, except for Overbeek will remain as a strategic advisor to June
rising star
Ironically, Patel, a veteran of Cisco of 19 years and a "rising star" was selected by Robbins to join his new 10-member senior management team in June, before officially taking over as CEO 26 July 2016.
As part of the management team of the application of "next generation" Robbin, Patel was responsible for driving innovation in the network management center and data Cisco architectures, technologies first portfolio of $ 36, 3 billion of the company in an international team of over 26,000 employees.
While Patel's successor has not been named, he will continue working with Robbins on how to accelerate its vision for the next chapter in the Cisco engineering leadership. According to experts from Cisco, Patel replacement will be announced before the summit partners Cisco 2016 begins in San Diego on Feb. 29.
Patel joined Cisco through its acquisition of StrataCom in 1996. He received a Bachelor of Engineering from BITS Pilani and holds a Masters in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He was previously senior vice president and general manager of Cisco services company..
