Over 20 years of experience leading strategy, acquisitions and investments in the technology industry.

Vice President, Corporate Development @ Currently responsible for driving Cisco's strategy, acquisitions and venture capital investments across its video, collaboration, security, connected home and digital media businesses Also responsible for Cisco’s corporate development activities in India, Japan, Korea, ASEAN and ANZ Previously led Corporate Development teams responsible for Cisco's service provider networking, mobility and consumer businesses Led dozens of transactions totaling over $10 billion: Acquistions include Sourcefire, OpenDNS, Tropo, ThreatGRID, NDS, Cognitive Security, BNI Video, ClearAccess, Lightwire, Pure Networks, Pure Digital, MOTO Development, ExtendMedia, Collaborate.com, Assemblage and Inlet Technologies Divestitures include Linksys (to Belkin) and Cisco's Connected Device business (to Technicolor) Investments include OpenDNS (acquired by Cisco), Quantcast, BlackArrow (acquired by CrossMediaWorks), Control4 (CTRL), iControl, BNI Video (acquired by Cisco), Digitalsmiths (acquired by TiVo), Celeno, Mavenir (MVNR), Zensys (acquired by Sigma Designs) and SiBEAM (acquired by Silicon Image) From December 2007 to Present (7 years 11 months) San Jose, CAManaging Director, Venture Investment @ From April 2005 to November 2007 (2 years 8 months) Santa Clara, CAStrategic Consultant @ From February 2004 to March 2005 (1 year 2 months) Pasadena and San Jose, CAVice President, Corporate Development @ From February 1999 to November 2003 (4 years 10 months) Pasadena, CAVenture Associate @ From February 1998 to February 1999 (1 year 1 month) Los Angeles, CASr. Financial Analyst @ From June 1996 to July 1997 (1 year 2 months) San Francisco, CASr. Financial Analyst @ From May 1994 to June 1996 (2 years 2 months) San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA

MBA @ UCLA Anderson School of Management From 1997 to 1999 BS @ UC Berkeley Haas School of Business From 1990 to 1994