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Joining the ranks of other highly-placed colleagues, word is that Padmasree Warrior, Cisco's CTO and Strategy Officer, is leaving too, when new CEO Chuck Robbins officially takes over at the end of July, sources have told Re/Code's Arik Hesseldahl.
Cisco today confirmed that two other executives have resigned: COO Gary Moore and president Rob Lloyd, both considered front-runners to become the next CEO upon the retirement of long-serving Chairman and CEO John T Chambers. More departures are expected as Robbins puts his own team in place.
Warrior had a mixed reputation at Cisco and within its bigger eco-systems.
On the plus side, she is said to be smart, articulate, good with customers and is a well-known name and face associated with the company. Often front and center on stage at the company's annual customer conference, Cisco Live, demonstrating new technology, she has been an advisor and mentor to startups, particularly those founded by women.
On the downside, she didn't garner a lot of internal respect as an engineering leader, which is the unit she was originally hired to run, many people close to the company said. She joined Cisco in 2008, having been CTO at Motorola.
At first she co-shared the role of head of engineering with Pankaj Patel, back when Chambers organised the company via executive councils, wherein units were led by multiple leaders.
But when Cisco started its massive multi-year reorganisation a few years ago, Warrior was out of that role, and Patel became the sole leader of the engineering unit. Cisco engineers are the company's lifeblood and represent 35 per cent of its 70,000 workforce.
Warrior became the chief strategy officer, a role that was held by others right before they left the company.
Though industry watchers say it is hard to point to a single successful engineering project at Cisco which Warrior led, in her strategy role, it is believed she was a major force within Cisco's allimportant acquisition strategy.
She was rumoured to be on her way out in January though Cisco at that time denied that the rumour was true.
Cisco won't comment if Warrior is out. However, Robbins says he will be announcing a new leadership team within the next two weeks. Expect to see the back of more executives in decision-making positions as Robbins has said he "will move to a flatter leadership team".
Cisco today confirmed that two other executives have resigned: COO Gary Moore and president Rob Lloyd, both considered front-runners to become the next CEO upon the retirement of long-serving Chairman and CEO John T Chambers. More departures are expected as Robbins puts his own team in place.
Warrior had a mixed reputation at Cisco and within its bigger eco-systems.
On the plus side, she is said to be smart, articulate, good with customers and is a well-known name and face associated with the company. Often front and center on stage at the company's annual customer conference, Cisco Live, demonstrating new technology, she has been an advisor and mentor to startups, particularly those founded by women.
On the downside, she didn't garner a lot of internal respect as an engineering leader, which is the unit she was originally hired to run, many people close to the company said. She joined Cisco in 2008, having been CTO at Motorola.
At first she co-shared the role of head of engineering with Pankaj Patel, back when Chambers organised the company via executive councils, wherein units were led by multiple leaders.
But when Cisco started its massive multi-year reorganisation a few years ago, Warrior was out of that role, and Patel became the sole leader of the engineering unit. Cisco engineers are the company's lifeblood and represent 35 per cent of its 70,000 workforce.
Warrior became the chief strategy officer, a role that was held by others right before they left the company.
Though industry watchers say it is hard to point to a single successful engineering project at Cisco which Warrior led, in her strategy role, it is believed she was a major force within Cisco's allimportant acquisition strategy.
She was rumoured to be on her way out in January though Cisco at that time denied that the rumour was true.
Cisco won't comment if Warrior is out. However, Robbins says he will be announcing a new leadership team within the next two weeks. Expect to see the back of more executives in decision-making positions as Robbins has said he "will move to a flatter leadership team".
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