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Padmasree Warrior Biography
As Chief Technology Officer, Padmasree Warrior helps define Cisco’s technological strategy and drives innovation across the company, working closely with the senior executive team and Board of Directors. As an evangelist for what’s possible, she pushes Cisco to stretch beyond its current capabilities, not just in technology, but also in its strategic partnerships and new business models.
As Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise, Commercial and Small Business group, Warrior sets the vision and strategy for her organization’s strategic priorities. She particularly focuses on company efforts in architectures: borderless networks, data center/virtualization, collaboration, as well as key initiatives such as security, and mobility. She leads a team of 10,000 engineers.
Warrior joined Cisco in 2007. Prior to that, she was the Chief Technology Officer at Motorola. In addition to her work at Cisco, Warrior serves on a broad range of government and industry advisory boards, as well as those of charitable and community organizations. Recently, Fast Company Magazine selected her among the “100 Most Creative People in Business” and she was one of six women nationwide selected to receive the “Women Elevating Science and Technology” award from Working Woman magazine. In 2007, she was inducted into the Women in Information Technology International Hall of Fame.
Warrior’s energetic, approachable and pragmatic leadership style integrates ideas from diverse sources, which include engineers, sociologists, technologists, marketers, policy experts, and others. Throughout her career, she has earned a reputation for establishing processes that tap a rich diversity of technical, business, and entrepreneurial IQ knowledge to nurture disruptive and breakthrough innovations, speed development time to market, and improve the way people work, live, play and learn.
Warrior holds a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi and a master of science degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University. In 2007 she was awarded an honorary doctorate of engineering from New York's Polytechnic University.