- Accomplished Business and Technology senior-level executive leader with 15+ years Cisco experience growing diverse multi-$B groups with #1 or #2 market share dominance, and 4+ years experience at a tier-1 VC funded successful valley startup, Zeitnet (acquired by Cabletron), as an early (10th) core team member - Building high-performance, results-driven, large global teams with organization effectiveness consisting of Director and Senior Managers in Product Management/Marketing, Technical Marketing, Business Development, Operations, and setting 3-5 year long-term overall strategy/direction, business planning and marketing budget management - Experienced Marketing professional with leading comprehensive product/solution P&L lifecycle management, portfolio discipline, successful marketing launches leveraging messaging, segmentation, positioning, branding, Analyst/Press relations, and go-to-market (GTM) strategies for large global as well as Emerging business - Entrepreneurial drive starting several products/solutions from infancy to building a successful profitable business capitalizing market transitions and leveraging unique business models such as ISV partner ecosystem, Managed/Hosted service, OEM channel, ODM with revenue sharing, pay-as-you-grow software licensing and acquisition - Highly versatile domain experience in Software, DevOps and Web app development, Networking, L4-L7 network services, Video, Mobile, network Storage, Policy, Virtualization technologies across Datacenter (DC)/Cloud, Enterprise Campus, and Service Provider (SP) architectures with worldwide customer sales focus

Vice President, Security Business and Strategy @ Hiring rockstar Product Management at all levels (Sr. Director, Sr. Product Managers, TMEs) to expand the Security Team...prior UTM, L7, Cloud Security, Virtualization, AWS/VMWare orchestration, Security Analytics, Automation/SD experience preferred! From April 2015 to Present (9 months) Head of Product Management/Marketing and Senior Director @ • Responsible for Cisco's Software Strategy across Datacenter/Cloud (NXOS), Enterprise (IOS/XE) and Service Provider (IOS-XR) Business Groups contributing to $20B+ annual revenue • Leader of a large global Marketing team that drives Cisco-wide Software Portfolio Management across 11 Business Units, with a team of 2000+ R&D group and $400M+ Opex • Lead Cisco-wide SDN initiatives with onePK API/SDK, Openflow, Netconf/YANG, REST/JSON, Python, DevOps integration with Chef/Puppet, ODL/Openstack integration, NFV Containers etc. • Drive Software innovations across Cisco : -> Datacenter/Cloud (VXLAN with BGP unified fabrics, Overlay fabrics, EVPN DCI, Plug-n-Play,..) -> Campus/WAN innovations (Virtualized Routers, Application-aware WAN, Wired/wireless converged access..) -> Service Provider (IP+Optical convergence, Virtualized Edge, SP wifi/BNG..) From September 2011 to March 2015 (3 years 7 months) Director, Product Management and Marketing @ • Director managing a team of Director and Senior Managers responsible for Catalyst 6500 (overall $2B+ annual revenue) Enterprise Routing and L4-L7 Services (Firewall, Load-balancer, Wireless Controller, Network Analysis, IPSec Modules) Marketing, Catalyst 6500 and Nexus 7000 Datacenter Interconnect and Virtualized Services Marketing, Catalyst 6500 and next-gen switching platform Technical Marketing • Drove complete portfolio refresh launch of industry’s most widely deployed modular switch, next-gen Catalyst 6500, with $42B installed base resulting in boosting platform longevity, competitive offering and overall mindshare • Built industry’s first end-to-end network-integrated virtualized services “open” platform strategy leveraging VMware strategic alliance and establishing a “qualified” ISV partner ecosystem with new innovative business models and GTM plans for Cloud, SP and Campus deployments • Created from concept to successful launch of Cisco’s comprehensive Datacenter-interconnect (DCI) 3-year strategy with A-VPLS innovation on Catalyst 6K and a unique offering on Nexus 7K (patent filed) which has been jointly certified by VMware for long-distance Vmotion From December 2009 to August 2011 (1 year 9 months) Senior Manager, Product Management and Marketing @ • Senior Manager responsible for $700M+ annual P&L for Catalyst 4500/4900, Catalyst 6500 SP IPNGN Access(E-FTTX)/Aggregation, Enterprise WAN business, and Datacenter Systems and Solutions Marketing for Enterprise Private Cloud and DCI Architecture • Developed Cisco’s first Enterprise Private Cloud-ready DC (Infrastructure as a Service) IaaS System encompassing VCE Vblock, Catalyst/Nexus switching, NAS/SAN storage, L4-L7 services (Firewall, Load-balancer) and Orchestration to enable secure multi-tenant Cloud and Managed Service hosted offerings • Expanded Catalyst 4K/6K business from its traditional Campus/DC Access and Backbone segments into adjacent markets by building a dedicated portfolio for SP triple-play Access/E-FTTX (built Cisco #1 in market share) and Carrier Ethernet Aggregation, and Enterprise WAN Routing managing the 3-5 year direction From June 2006 to November 2009 (3 years 6 months) Group Manager, Product Management and Marketing @ • Group Manager responsible for all Packet Optical products/solutions on ONS 15454/3xx family accounting for $100M+ annual revenue, 25% y-y growth (FY05->FY06), 30-40% attach rate • Defined product strategy and outbound messaging for the ONS 15xxx Packet Optical solutions and integration with Cisco portfolio resulting in increased market addressability (Ethernet, Storage and Mobile backhaul), top-line growth and successful Analyst/Press mindshare From January 2005 to May 2006 (1 year 5 months) Senior Product Manager @ • Influenced creation of a new Edge Routing market research segment, Multi-Service Edge (MSE), and key member responsible in transforming the GSR/XR high-end core router, a $1.5B+ annual business, as the lead Cisco L2/L3 VPN MSE router and building migration strategies for large ATM/FR/TDM SP franchises. Developed a unique pay-as-you-select capacity/service enforce-able licensing mechanism (patent granted) From April 2003 to December 2004 (1 year 9 months) Product Manager @ • Lead the complete lifecycle from inception with product definition and transition, phased strategy introduction, and marketed new product launches of MGX 8850 IP+ATM Multiservice Switch responsible for $0 to $150M+ annual run-rate in less than two years targeting a wide-range of Enterprise/SP deployments From January 1999 to March 2003 (4 years 3 months) Senior Member of Technical Staff @ • Core team 10th member in successful startup (acquired by Cabletron in 1996) joined as a Software Engineer and transitioned to Product Manager responsible for the SmartSwitch ATM portfolio From March 1994 to December 1998 (4 years 10 months)

Master of Science (MS), Computer Science Engineering (Thesis option) @ The University of Texas at Arlington From 1992 to 1993 Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics and Communications Engineering @ VJTI (University of Bombay) From 1987 to 1991 Mihir Maniar is skilled in: Go-to-market Strategy, Product Management, Organizational Leadership, Leadership, Cloud Computing, Data Center, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Service Providers, New Business Development, Strategy, Start-ups, Business Strategy, Turnaround Experience