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In May 2015, Cisco announced that CEO and chairman John Chambers would step down as CEO in July 2015 while remaining as chairman. Robbins, then a senior vice president, was named as his successor. [5] Mentored by Chambers, Robbins was unanimously voted in as the company's new chief executive, becoming CEO of Cisco Systems in July 2015. [6] [5] [7]
In 1995 Chambers became CEO of Cisco, a position he held until 2015. He had also been promoted to board chairman in 2006. [13] During his tenure as CEO, the company's annual sales grew from $1.9 billion [14] to $49.2 billion. [15] On July 27, 2015, Chuck Robbins replaced Chambers as CEO of Cisco Systems. [16]
Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware , software , telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products. [ 4 ]
Chairman, CEO and co-founder [21] 1985 Co-founded the firm with Peter George Peterson: 2017-11-15 BHP: Mike Henry: CEO [22] 2020 On 1 January 2020, Henry took over as CEO of BHP from Andrew Mackenzie: 2024-08-16 BMW: Oliver Zipse: Chairman of the board of management [23] 2020 Succeeded Harald Krüger: 2017-11-15 Boeing: Kelly Ortberg: President ...
He joined Cisco in 1988, then a four-year-old company with 34 employees, as its second chief executive officer and chairman of the board. [5] He was replaced by John Chambers as CEO in 1995 and as chairman in 2006. [8] [9] At his retirement in 2006, Cisco had 50,000 employees in 77 countries. [10]
In 1990, Cisco's management fired Cisco co-founder Sandy Lerner and Bosack resigned. [2] As of 2010, Bosack was the CEO of XKL LLC, a privately funded engineering company which explores and develops optical networks for data communications. [3]
He joined Cisco in 1994 when it acquired Kalpana, an Ethernet switching company, where he was vice president. Giancarlo became Cisco's first vice president of business development, where he developed Cisco's merger and acquisition strategy and practice. In 1999, he took responsibility for the commercial line of business at Cisco.
In 2002, he left Cisco and joined Symbol Technologies as President and COO. [10] He became CEO in 2003 and returned the company to profitability for the first time in five years, increasing revenue growth by 24% from 2002-2004. [7]