Top level Exits Continue at Cisco; Pankaj Patel Latest to Go

Pankaj Patel, senior vice president and chief development officer, Cisco has decided to relinquish his role in the second half of this calendar year.

Cisco His departure comes just four months after the release of Chief Technology and Strategy Padmasree Warrior.

The output of Cisco Patel to the long list of several executive departures after Chuck adds Robbins was named the new CEO of Cisco by the outgoing CEO, John Chambers, last May. President and COO Gary Moore and President of Development and Rob Lloyd sales, which were considered the best candidates for the role of CEO after Chambers announced his decision to leave most of the management reorganization, both Cisco leaving 25 July 2015, the last day of the exercise of most networks.

Other main outputs, senior vice president of Cisco Services Edzard Overbeek, Chief Globalisation Officer Wim Elfrink, vice president of Cloud and Managed Services Edison Peres and senior vice president of the World Organization partners, Bruce Klein who left in quick succession last year, except of Overbeek will remain as a strategic advisor to June

Rising star

Ironically, Patel, a veteran of Cisco of 19 years and a "rising star" was chosen by Robbins to join his new management team of 10 members in June, even before officially taking over as CEO July 26, 2016 .

As part of the management team implementing the "next generation" Robbin, Patel was responsible for driving innovation in the management center and data networks Cisco architectures, technologies senior portfolio $ 36.3 billion of society in a global team of over 26,000 employees.

While Patel's successor has not been appointed, he will continue to work with Robbins on how to accelerate its vision for the next chapter of Cisco's leadership in engineering. According to experts from Cisco, Patel replacement will be announced before the Summit of Cisco partners that began in 2016 in San Diego February 29.

Patel joined Cisco through its acquisition of StrataCom in 1996. He received a Bachelor of Engineering from BITS Pilani and a Masters in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Previously he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the company services the company Cisco.