Charles H. Giancarlo topic

Charles H. Giancarlo has served as one of the Company's directors since March 2007.

Mr. Giancarlo has had a variety of roles at Cisco since 1994. He is currently Cisco's Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer, a position he has held since July 2005. From July 2004 to July 2005, he was Chief Technology Officer. Previously, Mr. Giancarlo was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Product Development, from July 2001 to July 2004. He also served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Commercial Business Segment from May 1999 to July 2001, incubating Cisco's fastest growing business segment. In May 1997, he was appointed to establish Cisco's Global Alliances and ran the division as Senior Vice-President until May 1999. In his first Cisco role after joining the company through the acquisition of Kalpana, Inc., Mr. Giancarlo held the title of Vice President of Business Development, from December 1994 to May 1997.

In addition to his current role as Cisco's Chief Development Officer, Mr. Giancarlo is President of Cisco-Linksys, LLC, a position he has held since June 2004.

Mr. Giancarlo holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Brown University and the University of California at Berkeley, respectively, and an MBA from Harvard University.