Charles Giancarlo

Charles Henry Giancarlo

Charles Giancarlo is an Entrepreneur, Investor, and former senior executive of Cisco Systems, a Fortune 50 high tech company. Giancarlo has over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor, communications and networking industries. From 2008 until 2013 he was a Managing Director of Silver Lake Partners and served as the Head of their operating group.[1] A senior executive at Cisco Systems from 1993-2007, Giancarlo served as Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer of Cisco, leading the company’s overall product development and product management activities. As Chief Development Officer, Giancarlo directed the activities of half of Cisco’s employees and over 80% of its revenue, and was directly responsible for Cisco’s expansion into a large number of new markets and technologies.

Giancarlo joined Cisco when the company acquired Kalpana, Inc., the pioneer in Ethernet switching, in 1994 where he was Vice President of Products and Corporate Development. After integrating Kalpana into Cisco as General Manager, he became Cisco's first Vice President of Business Development, where he developed Cisco’s merger and acquisition strategy and practice. In 1999 he took responsibility for the Commercial Line of Business at Cisco, became CTO in 2003 and Chief Development Officer in 2004. Giancarlo was directly responsible for the creation of many of Cisco’s advanced technologies including Ethernet Switching, WiFi, Security, IP Telephony, and TelePresence, as well as Cisco's entry into major new markets such as the small and medium and consumer markets, consumer video and WebEx.[2]

Both prior to and subsequent to Cisco Giancarlo has founded,[3] been a founding investor[4] and has led a number of companies. Charles Giancarlo was President and CEO of Avaya from June, 2008 through December 2008 .[5] After the appointment of Kevin J. Kennedy as CEO, he became Chairman of the Board at that company, while continuing to serve as a Managing Director and Operating Partner at the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.[6] In addition, he serves on the boards of Accenture, Arista, Imperva and ServiceNow as well as several other high tech startup companies. Giancarlo holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University where he serves on the Board of Trustees, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley where he serves on the Board of Advisors, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Brown University, a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

References

  1. ↑ Giancarlo identified in 2012 in top 50 deal makers. Forbes Online, October 3, 2012
  2. ↑ "Charles Giancarlo Biography". Cisco. Retrieved 3 Sep 2011.
  3. ↑ Telecom Systems (1984, failed 1987), Adaptive (1988, sold to N.E.T. 1993), ItsOn (2009)
  4. ↑ Equinix, Blue Jeans Networks, Coraid, Big Switch Networks, Avi Networks, Soraa, Enlighted, Attivo, Exablox, Formation Data, LensVector, NetSpeed, Virtual Instruments, Mercury Payment Systems and Vantage Data Centers
  5. ↑ "Avaya CEO Charles Giancarlo to Keynote VoiceCon San Francisco 2008". 31 Oct 2008. Retrieved 16 Feb 2010.
  6. ↑ Kevin Kennedy to Join Avaya Inc. as President and Chief Executive Officer

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Business positions
Preceded by
Mario Mazzola		 EVP, Chief Development Officer
Cisco
1993–2007 		Succeeded by
None
Preceded by
Louis D'Ambrosio		 President & CEO
Avaya
2008–2009 		Succeeded by
Kevin J. Kennedy
Preceded by
John Joyce		 Managing Director, Head of Value Creation
Silver Lake Partners
2007–2013 		Succeeded by
Mark Gillett
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