Cisco has sent an internal memo announcing it is reorganising the company’s engineering unit into four new teams to match areas the company sees as most critical, UK Business Insider reported.
The new units are Networking, Cloud Services & Platforms, Security, and Applications & IoT. All of the unit leaders will report directly to CEO Chuck Robbins.
Kelly Ahuja, an 18-year Cisco veteran who most recently was running Cisco's service provider business, will leave. Yvette Kanouff will take over what the company’s says will be an expanded Service Provider organisation, reporting to head of engineering Pankar Patel. Networking will continue to report to Patel for the time being, but Patel earlier announced he would be leaving the company in January.
David Goeckeler will continue to lead Cisco's Security business, and will now report directly to Robbins. Rowan Trollope will continue to lead IoT & Applications and will now report directly to Robbins. Robbins sees IoT as one of Cisco's biggest and most promising new markets.
Zorawar Singh, one of Robbin's new hires, will lead the newly formed Cloud Services & Platforms organisation. Liz Centoni will be promoted to SVP and will lead the Computing Systems Product Group.
Singh has been asked to work closely with the Insieme leaders. Insieme is the unit in charge of Cisco's flagship Nexus 9000 switch and its SDN software. The unit is run by engineers Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, and Luca Cafiero.
