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

At present, I’m excited to share an replace about Cisco’s Government Management Workforce (ELT).

Eyal Dagan, who has led our Widespread {Hardware} Group since 2020, is taking over an essential new position at Cisco. As our new Government Vice President, Strategic Tasks, Eyal will work with me and the ELT on essential 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 essential issue was discovering the suitable particular person to guide our Widespread {Hardware} Group, the extremely revolutionary staff that delivers the silicon, {hardware} programs, and optics for Cisco’s switching, routing, optical, cable entry, and IoT portfolios in addition to elements and white bins on to clients.

With that in thoughts, I’m more than happy to announce that Martin Lund, an business veteran with a long time of expertise driving innovation and enterprise progress within the networking and semiconductor industries, is becoming a member of Cisco as our new Government Vice President, Widespread {Hardware} Group. Martin will be a part of our ELT and report back to me, efficient right this moment.

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 will 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 chargeable 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 firms reminiscent of Cadence Design Techniques and Intel.

Martin’s expertise defining technique, main international groups, and driving progress mixed along with his in depth background in networking and AI make him the suitable chief to drive this essential a part of our enterprise ahead.

Accelerating Innovation and Driving Progress

Whereas we’re simply beginning to see the numerous methods AI will form our world, one factor is obvious – the community is essential, and Cisco builds networks higher than anybody. With Splunk now formally on board, Cisco is uniquely positioned to energy and defend the AI revolution. A essential a part of that is our capability to ship world-class infrastructure and options that may deal with huge quantities of knowledge – now required and foundational for AI.

I’m assured that with the robust basis we have now, we are going to speed up the good work the groups are doing and establish new alternatives to ship differentiated expertise and options that can gasoline the way forward for AI. With Eyal and Martin in these new roles, I do know we are going to proceed to construct on our momentum and ship unmatched innovation for our clients.

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