Immediately I shared with our crew that after two years main our Frequent {Hardware} Group, Martin Lund has determined to go away Cisco and return to the CEO function at an early-stage AI begin up. With this, the Frequent {Hardware} Group will be a part of the Product Group led by Jeetu Patel. This transformation will assist drive additional alignment throughout our portfolio and speed up supply of the differentiated options our prospects have to be profitable within the AI period.
Our skill to drive full-stack innovation and buyer outcomes from silicon all the way in which to the appliance stays a key differentiator for Cisco – it’s foundational to each our future and our buyer’s success. Jeetu’s ardour for know-how, inventive imaginative and prescient, and dedication to hurry and execution make him the precise particular person to guide this essential work and the expanded Product crew ahead.
Martin joined Cisco two years in the past, and he and his crew have made an unimaginable impression for the corporate, establishing our management in AI and throughout silicon, techniques, and optics. In simply two years, he and the crew launched new Silicon One chips, whereas additionally driving triple-digit AI progress, ramping our enterprise in shopper optics and with new {hardware} techniques, and cementing our place in AI networking. We’re grateful for Martin’s management and for all the things he has executed for Cisco and our prospects.
I’m optimistic about what’s forward, and I look ahead to seeing how Jeetu and the Product crew will work collectively to amplify the facility of our portfolio, ship extra worth for our prospects, and gas our future progress throughout this once-in-a-lifetime know-how revolution.
