Cisco at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2020

Chuck Robbins is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cisco. He assumed the role of CEO on July 26, 2015, and was elected Chairman of the Board on December 11, 2017.

Chuck is on the Board of Directors for BlackRock; Chairman of the US-Japan Business Council; a Member of the International Business Council for the World Economic Forum; on the Board of Directors for the Business Roundtable where he serves as Chairman of the Immigration Committee; a Board of Trustees member for the Ford Foundation; a member of the International Council for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University; and a member of the 2019 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Chuck has been at Cisco for over 20 years, and previously held management positions at Bay Networks and Ascend Communications. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with a computer science concentration from the University of North Carolina.

Jacqueline Guichelaar joined Cisco in February 2019 as SVP and Group CIO.  She is spearheading the creation of a digital architecture to accelerate Cisco’s digital enterprise transformation. She oversees a $1B+ organization that is responsible for running and transforming the technology infrastructure, digital platforms, security operations, and business applications that enable Cisco’s global workforce to excel and be productive at their jobs. 

Previously, Guichelaar was the Group CIO at Thomson Reuters, where she led a technology organization in support of the company’s digital strategy, as well as roles at Lloyds Bank, Deutsche Bank, and IBM.