Amazing People
Read stories about our employees and leaders making amazing things happen in business, technology and communities around the world.
Cultivating a Passion for Winning
Frank Palumbo has been winning, innovating and building sizeable businesses in a job he loves for 25 years. »
Lights, Camera, Action
Simon Gascoigne explains how he uses his filmmaking skills to help tell our stories and why he loves where he works. »
Protecting Cisco's Brand Is a Full-Time Job for Jiri Kocab
If you slept well last night, it might be because of the Brand Protection team he is part of. »
Get to Know Rowan Trollope
Rowan is a father, tech geek, artist, visionary, and mountaineer all rolled into one. »
Rich West Walks the Fine Line Between Securing Cisco and Its Employees and Protecting Their Privacy
Veteran information architect Rich West has the task of stopping the bad guys so quietly you don’t even notice. »
A Year of Momentous Change
Wendy Bahr discusses her growing family, key takeaways from Partner Summit, and offers advice for developing leadership skills. »
Need a Bubble of Protection? There’s a Cisco Team for That
Our Global Protective Services Team is a vital resource for top leaders and regular employees alike, helping the business succeed in some of the toughest environments. »
Bridging Around the World: How Do You Do Good?
Your colleagues in India and UKI have already started their campaigns, uniting family, friends and fun to make an impact in their communities. »
Meet Nic Selk—Our First Innovation Program Manager
He helps solve customer problems so they can get to their own success stories. »
Making Meaningful Connections
One courageous girl uses technology to stay connected to her class during her fight with cancer. »
Get to Know Chris Dedicoat
Meet Chris Dedicoat, our global Sales leader—with a passion for engineering, bass guitar and Southern Italian food. »
Get to Know Yvette Kanouff
Meet Yvette Kanouff—an Emmy-winning technophile who loves people, mathematics, gaming, and simply having fun. »
Behind the Scenes: Making Mega Events Rock
The Network Operations core team securely connects everything and brings technology to life for our customers. »
Linas Dauksa Thrives Where Work and Volunteerism Intersect
A marketing manager by trade, he blends an artist’s heart with an engineer’s mind. »
Larry Hutchins—Wiring the National Political Conventions
Hutchins' eagerness—and ability—to take on challenging, intense projects led him to head up the architectural design and wiring of the national U.S. political conventions. »
Cisco Innovators: Amanda Whaley
It's Amanda's job to get developers to think of Cisco when they think of software. »
Get to Know John Stewart
Meet John N. Stewart—a world-class security expert with deep Scottish heritage and a passion for helping others succeed. »
Meet the Man Behind Tetration Analytics
Cisco Fellow Navindra Yadav’s journey in creating a revolutionary data center platform. »
Powering the Future
For women in technology, anything is possible. »
Meet Wayne Homell, Whose Job Is to Keep You Safe, All Day, Every Day
Wayne leads the organization that watches over and protects employees—and not in a Big Brother way. »
Meet Craig Williams—Security Expert Extraordinaire
As manager of Cisco's Talos Outreach team, he helps brings the fight to cyber crooks everywhere—and has fun doing it. »
Meet the Cisco Poland Team
Something special is going on in Cisco Poland. Find out what the team loves about working there. »
Get to Know Wendy Bahr
Meet Wendy Bahr, Senior Vice President of Cisco's Global Partner Organization—a problem-solver extraordinaire who will trade mundane routine for a tough challenge any day of the week. »
Get to Know Hilton Romanski
Our Chief Strategy Officer Hilton Romanski talks about what makes a good leader and how surfing gives him perspective in his day-to-day life. »
Why They Carry the Torch
Our Cisco Olympians, first-place winners of the torch relay contest, will carry the Olympic Torch at the Rio 2016 Games. »
Get to Know Joe Cozzolino
In this video, Joe Cozzolino, SVP, Cisco Services, talks about the importance of building great teams and how his family inspires him. »
Turning Fear into Fearless
Cisco Consulting Engineer Deidra Brown learned how to turn fear into fearlessness. Now she's inspiring others to do the same. »
A Simple Idea and Use of Technology Gives Hope to Refugees
Mirko Bass, Business Development Manager, teams up with others to make a difference. »
Reinventing the Internet
Cisco Distinguished Engineer Giovanna Carofiglio is part of a small, global effort to create the networking protocols of the future. »
Get to Know Guillermo "G" Diaz Jr.
Meet Guillermo Diaz Jr. —a two-time martial arts national champ with a passion for technology, golf and community. »
Journey from WorldSkills to Cisco
Jean-Philippe a laboratory administrator at Cisco received certification from the Cisco Networking Academy at the age of 17. He is involved in his community and is always eager to learn new technologies. »
It Begins with Passion, Followed by Vision and Execution
As IT’s Chief Architect of the Internet of Everything, Plamen Nedeltchev is passionate about his work—and what’s yet to come for the future of technology. »
Deploying the Internet of Everything in Cisco IT
Always ahead of his time, Distinguished IT Engineer Chris Cottrell looks for the leading edge of what technology behind a great idea can accomplish. »
Get to Know Kevin Bandy
Our new Chief Digital Officer is equal parts world explorer and family man. Meet Kevin Bandy. »
Get to Know Ruba Borno
Meet Ruba Borno—she's intense, takes her fun seriously, and considers it her duty to change the world. »
Engineering Brighter Futures
Software engineer Sandhya Kerehalli is closing the digital divide in her community, one student at a time. »
Get to Know Irving Tan
In this video, Irving Tan, SVP, Asia Pacific and Japan, talks about what makes a team strong, what he is passionate about, what keeps him up at night, and what makes him laugh. »
Adventures in Industrial Design
Hallgrim Sagen is part of our global team of designers that who is are reimagining how the world collaborates. »
Voice of the Innovator: Jyoti Sarin
Jyoti's motto is to inspire and enable innovation at Cisco. In this podcast, she shares her thoughts on leading and motivating teams to create exponential impact. »
Get to Know Jonathan Rosenberg
Our Collaboration Technology Group CTO reflects on a life-long love for computing and innovation. »
Fascinated by Complex Systems
Meet ACI wizard Kevin Corbin, who never met a complex system he wasn't interested in mastering. »
Passion with a Purpose
Rebeca de la Vega's long road to Cisco helped her discover the best way to make a positive impact on people's lives. »
Voice of the Innovator: Shraddha Chaplot
Listen to Shraddha's take on innovation at Cisco in the Amazing People podcast series. »
Cisco's "Fab Five" on Gender Diversity
Leaders of the Operating Committee talk to Fortune about Cisco's journey to create a more diverse workforce. »
Get to Know Fran Katsoudas
Our Chief of Human Resources, talks about learning, passion and how to grow amazing teams. »
Going the Distance
When the network infrastructure for the world's most high-pressure events has to perform flawlessly, Cisco Customer Assurance Program Manager Andrew Clark gets the call. »
Get to Know Karen Walker
SVP of Marketing Karen Walker talks about her leadership style and what she calls the three Ds of leadership. Learn what else she is passionate about. »
Voice of the Innovator: Ben Varghese
As part of Cisco Consulting Services, Ben's job is to unlock business value from emerging technologies like robots, drones, augmented reality and 3D printers. Listen to the podcast. »
Get to Know John Brigden
He's an avid sailor. He grew up in Wisconsin with three brothers and five sisters. And if he could meet one person, dead or alive, it would be Thomas Jefferson. »
In the Center of the Cyclone
When a natural disaster strikes, chances are that Sue-Lynn Hinson and the Cisco Tactical Operations team will be on the ground within hours to establish critical connections for those who need it most. »
Building Tomorrow
Cisco Fellow Cullen Jennings's job description is simple: invent the future. His motivation is even simpler: make communication and collaboration tools available to everyone on the planet. »
Unconventional Trailblazer
Vanessa Sulikowski has a passion for bush walking. That's what Australians call hiking in the backcountry. »
Accessibility Champion
For Young Tran, working to create greater accessibility for the disabled at Cisco and beyond is more than just a job. »
Voice of the Innovator: Michelle Concannon
Michelle Concannon leads the core engineering and DevOps effort for Project Squared’s call control and desktop-sharing services deployed in Cisco’s next-generation cloud. »
Get to Know Chuck Robbins
Chuck Robbins, Cisco's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, talks about what inspires him at work, who he turns to for a fresh perspective and what makes him laugh. »
Get to Know Our Security Team
What a difference a year makes. One year ago this week, we welcomed the Sourcefire team to Cisco. In just 12 months, the combined security team has had some amazing achievements. »
Get to Know Woody Sessoms
Woody Sessoms' roots run deep in North Carolina. His family arrived in Jamestown in 1666, moving to North Carolina shortly thereafter. »
Voice of the Innovator: Preethi Natarajan
Preethi Natarajan is an engineer in Innovation Labs based in San Jose. She is currently leading research and prototyping efforts for predictive analytics use cases relevant to Cisco's enterprise networking portfolio. »