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Jeetu Patel

Executive Vice President

Chief Product Officer

Jeetu Patel is Cisco’s Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer. He combines a bold vision, steeped in product design and development expertise, operational rigor, and innate market understanding to create high growth businesses. He is relentlessly focused on building world class products that solve Cisco customers’ biggest problems – bringing the power of the Cisco portfolio together to connect and protect every aspect of their organization in the era of AI. Previously he was Cisco’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Collaboration where he led the strategy and development for these businesses and held P&L responsibility for the multibillion-dollar portfolio. In this role, Jeetu led with his creative vision and intense focus on innovation and swift execution. Together with his team, he transformed and positioned our Security and Collaboration portfolios for success and growth. In both areas, he reinvigorated organic innovation, championed key inorganic investments, and drove simplification across these portfolios with a fanatical focus on design and user experience. Prior to joining Cisco in 2020, Jeetu was the Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Box, a role he pioneered. He led the company’s product and platform strategy, setting the company’s long-term vision and roadmap for cloud content management in the enterprise. He transformed Box from a single product application to a multi-product platform used by 100K customers representing 69% of the Fortune 500. The discipline, quality standards, performance metrics, and stability Jeetu instilled fueled the platform’s growth – nearly quadrupling revenues to $700M+. Box’s growth scaled to reach over 60M users with over 50% of customers using multiple products. He also created the Box Platform business unit where he led product strategy, marketing and developer relations – driving products from incubation stage to mature offerings. Before joining Box, Jeetu was General Manager and Chief Executive of EMC’s newly acquired Syncplicity business unit, a cloud service for Enterprise File Sync Sharing (EFSS) and collaboration. One of the first SaaS-based solutions offered by EMC, Jeetu spearheaded the company’s acquisition. He created a world class leadership team, secured some of the market’s largest customers and led the group to become one of the fastest growing EFSS companies in a highly competitive market. Other key roles at EMC included CMO for the Information Intelligence Group and Chief Strategy Officer, where he drove the organic and inorganic strategy for the division’s cloud and mobile growth. Previously, Jeetu was President of Doculabs, a research and advisory firm co-owned by Forrester Research. The firm focused on collaboration and content management across a range of industries including financial services, insurance, energy, manufacturing, and life sciences. He currently serves on the boards of JLL, an American commercial real estate services company, and Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company™. Jeetu holds a B.S. in Information Decision Sciences from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family.

Articles

November 25, 2024

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Not Ready For AI? Time To Lay The Groundwork

4 min read

In our recent Cisco AI Readiness Index, we found that only 13% of organizations consider themselves ready to capture AI’s potential, even though urgency is high. Companies are investing, but close to half of respondents say the gains aren’t meeting expectations. Here’s how organizations can get themselves better prepared.

October 23, 2024

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

How Cisco is Using Apple Vision Pro to Create the Next Evolution of Spatial Collaboration

2 min read

Cisco has always had an obsession of putting the user experience at the center of everything we do. Today marks another step in this evolution with Cisco Spatial Meetings for Apple Vision Pro. It takes a concept we call “Distance Zero” to the next level using spatial computing.

Cisco Security at Cisco Live 2024: Innovating at Scale

5 min read

No matter how reliable and performant your network is, it doesn’t matter if it’s not secure. To help make the world a safer place, we need to reimagine security.

April 18, 2024

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Hypershield: Security reimagined — hyper-distributed security for the AI-scale data center

4 min read

Introducing Cisco Hypershield, a cloud-native approach to highly-distributed security for data centers that’s AI-powered and built into the fabric of the network.

February 6, 2024

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

How Cisco, together with Apple, is tackling the next frontier of hybrid work — spatial computing

2 min read

Cisco and Apple today announced Webex for Apple Vision Pro. This marks another step in our ongoing commitment to providing the best possible experiences on Apple devices, and offering the greatest flexibility in when, where and how people work.

December 5, 2023

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

How We’re Making AI Pervasive in the Cisco Security Cloud

4 min read

AI is redrawing the lines between defender and attacker and, for the first time, the scales are tipping in favor of the defenders because of a data advantage. With AI, we can correlate data on a massive scale, see more attacks, and contain attacks faster to minimize damage.

June 6, 2022

SECURITY

Security Resilience for a Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Future

3 min read

Cisco announces its open security platform that eliminates vendor lock-in. The Cisco Security Cloud is a cloud-delivered, integrated platform and next-level solution that secures and connects organizations of any shape and size on a global scale.

November 16, 2021

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

The Hybrid Work Maturity Model: Where does your organization stand?

4 min read

How far has hybrid work evolved, and what more needs to be done? Cisco's new joint research effort with IDC, the Hybrid Work Maturity Model will assist organizations in assessing where they are in their hybrid work journeys, and what they need to do to achieve their goals.

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