4 posts and columns on Charlie Giancarlo

Mr. Hooper: Cisco CEO’s Heir Apparent?

in News on July 8, 2009 at 11:35 am PT

If there was any doubt that Ned Hooper is Cisco CEO John Chambers’s likely heir apparent, it disappeared today when the company named him chief strategy officer. For Hooper, who was already waist-deep in corporate strategy at Cisco as senior vice president corporate development and head of its consumer division, this is quite a promotion.
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Microsoft Forced to Dance Samba

in News on December 21, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Didn't You Mean 'Cisco Devolves Senior Technology Leadership Team'?

in News on December 21, 2007 at 8:03 am PT

So much for Cisco Systems’ succession plan. Charlie Giancarlo, heir-apparent to CEO John Chambers, is leaving to join private equity firm Silver Lake Partners. Seems Chambers, who managed to talk Giancarlo out of resigning once before, wasn’t so successful this time around. “Charlie’s been one of the very few leaders that I’ve lost out of [...]

Didn’t You Mean ‘Cisco Devolves Senior Technology Leadership Team’?

in News on December 21, 2007 at 8:03 am PT

So much for Cisco Systems’ succession plan. Charlie Giancarlo, heir-apparent to CEO John Chambers, is leaving to join private equity firm Silver Lake Partners. Seems Chambers, who managed to talk Giancarlo out of resigning once before, wasn’t so successful this time around. “Charlie’s been one of the very few leaders that I’ve lost out of [...]