Senior Management Teams

Changes to Senior Management Teams

CEOs of Cisco Systems & Competitors

John Chambers -- Cisco. In 1991, Chambers joined Cisco Systems as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Operations. Promoted to President and CEO in 1995, Chambers helped grow the firm to its present size. Before joining Cisco, he worked at Wang Laboratories from 1982 until 190, and prior to that, Chambers worked at IBM from 1976 to 1982. Under his leadership, Cisco and Chambers have earned all the requisite awards from Fortune 500, Forbes, CEO Magazine, Barron's, Business Week, and Time Magazine. Chambers has been visible in a variety of philanthropic arenas (Cisco Website, 2011).

Ben Verwaayen -- Alcatel-Lucent. Verwaayen is a Dutch national and an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau, an Honorary Knight of the British Empire (KBE), and a Chevalier de la Legion'd 'Honneur. He began working at Lucent in 1997 and...
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