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Don Proctor Biography
As Senior Vice President of the Voice Technology Group (VTG) at Cisco Systems, Don Proctor leads a team of world-class voice industry executives who manage Cisco's enterprise voice business units. The VTG business units are responsible for developing the company’s IP telephony systems, IP phones, customer contact solutions, and unified communications products, including messaging, video and audioconferencing, and collaboration applications.
Under Don's leadership, Cisco's voice business became the second of the company’s six initial advanced technology areas to surpass the US$1B annual revenue milestone, moving Cisco from an early innovator in the VoIP market to one of the top three global suppliers of enterprise voice solutions.
Don joined Cisco in 1995 and has held a variety of leadership positions in the company’s enterprise, service provider, and commercial businesses. Early in his tenure at Cisco, Don led the product team that developed the Cisco 2600 Series, the first router to combine voice and data services on a single platform.
Later, Don served as vice president and general manager of Cisco's multiservice carrier switching and voice gateway business units. Since joining VTG early in 2002, Don has been responsible for setting strategy, leading operations, and building the organization for Cisco's enterprise and service provider voice businesses.
Prior to joining Cisco, Don led data communications for software maker Sybase, Inc., where he deployed one of the world's first global IP networks based on a commercial Frame Relay service.
In addition to his responsibilities as senior vice president of VTG, Don serves as executive sponsor for a number of key Cisco customers and is a member of the Cisco Enterprise Business Council, Engineering Quality Council, and Women's Initiatives Steering Committee.
A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Don has been an instructor in the Telecommunications Engineering program at UC Berkeley Extension since 1994, and is a regular guest lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.