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10 Cisco IT leaders
These ten IT leaders hold or have held director-level and higher information technology roles at Cisco, including a former group chief information officer. A reader can learn how IT leaders lead technology organizations in networking businesses.
Professionals to explore
01—10Bailey Szeto
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Hybrid Work Information Technology · Cisco
Former Vice President, Hybrid Work Information Technology at Cisco (2020–2022) and former Vice President, Information Technology - Sales, Marketing, CX at Cisco (2017–2021). Former Senior Director, Collaboration at Cisco (2015–2017). Chief Information Officer at Certinia (2022–2024) and Divisional CIO - Digital Media at Adobe since 2024.
Chuck Churchill
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director - IT · Cisco
Sr. Director - IT at Cisco since 2020; the profile says the role leads Splunk-centric Observability and AIOps platforms focused on MELT correlation, event management and predictive analytics, and that earlier work covered Central Operations and IT's ServiceNow-based Enterprise Service Platform. Former Director IT - Global Infra Services Central Operations and Software Defined Everything (SDx) at Cisco (2017–2020).
Desmond Murray
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Information Technology · Cisco
Vice President Information Technology at Cisco since April 2015; the profile describes global responsibility for engineering, supply chain, contract manufacturing, and logistics. Former Senior Director, Enterprise Data & Security (2011–2015) and Director Sales IT (2003–2011) at Cisco, and former Director eBusiness at Franklin Templeton (1993–2002).
Ileana Rivera
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, IT Collaboration and Corporate Services · Cisco
Former Vice President, IT Collaboration and Corporate Services at Cisco (2023–2025) and Vice President, HR & Legal Technology at Cisco since 2025. Former Chief Of Staff to the CIO (2019–2023), Senior Director, IT Computing and Client Productivity Services (2014–2019) and CIO, Cisco Latin America (2011–2014) at Cisco.
Jacqueline Guichelaar
LinkedInExperience: Group Chief Information Officer · Cisco
Former Group Chief Information Officer at Cisco (2019–2023) and Customer Experience Officer, Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China at Cisco since 2023, based in Singapore. Former Group Chief Information Officer at Thomson Reuters (2017–2018) and former CIO Infrastructure and Technology Services at Lloyds Banking Group (2016–2017).
John Cao
LinkedInExperience: Director of IT · Cisco
Former Director of IT at Cisco (2018–2023), and former Senior Manager, IT (2008–2018) and Enterprise Architect (2005–2008) at Cisco. The profile summary describes specializing in network infrastructure, security, system stability and proactive IT operations. Former Lead Data Architect at Netscape Communications Corp (2003–2005).
John Varughese
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, IT - Data Strategy, AI ML, Data Analytics, Finance Systems, FP&A, Procure to Pay · Cisco
Senior Director, IT - Data Strategy, AI ML, Data Analytics, Finance Systems, FP&A, Procure to Pay at Cisco since November 2023; the profile describes owning enterprise technology strategy across finance IT, data strategy, AI/ML, analytics, FP&A and Procure-to-Pay. Former Director, IT Data Strategy, Financial Planning, BI & Data Analytics at Cisco (2018–2023).
Shaw-Jen Chang
LinkedInExperience: VP, Infrastructure and Platform Services · Cisco
Former VP, Infrastructure and Platform Services at Cisco (2012–2017) and IT VP, Digital Customer Listening at Cisco since 2017. Former Sr. Director, Infrastructure Services (2011–2012), Sr. Director, Global Data Center (2008–2011) and Sr. Director, Information Technology (2003–2008) at Cisco.
Sudhakar Vundavalli
LinkedInExperience: Head of Cisco Services IT · Cisco
Former Head of Cisco Services IT at Cisco (2017–2021); the profile describes serving as group CIO responsible for Cisco's $13B/year services business and establishing a technology and data platform for proactive and predictive customer support. Former Director, Cisco Commerce at Cisco (2012–2014) and former Chief Information Officer, Sandisk at Sandisk (2024–2026).
Vijay Yadav
LinkedInExperience: Director of IT · Cisco
Director of IT at Cisco since 2020; the profile describes responsibility for activation, onboarding, planning, incentive management and compliance for 55K channel partners, and administering a $22M+ annual budget for transformational and operational initiatives. Former Senior Information Technology Manager (2014–2020), IT Manager (2011–2014) and Senior Information Technology Project Manager (2006–2011) at Cisco.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you split ownership between central IT infrastructure teams and the IT groups that serve sales, services and corporate functions?
- 02What does it take to run a company's own products inside its IT environment before customers use them?
- 03How do you decide which IT platforms to consolidate and which to leave with individual business units?
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