Two Cisco Senior Vice Presidents Depart the Firm

Two Cisco senior vice presidents, Christine Heckart and Yvette Kanouff, are departing the organization.

Heckart, a advertising govt, experienced been at Cisco for 9 months. According to her LinkedIn profile, her purpose at Cisco was to deliver “together the BU, industries, cloud, solution, and services advertising teams to build the eyesight, information and facts, ordeals, and instruments that encourage and inspire customers to achieve additional than they ever thought feasible.”

Prior to Cisco, Heckart served as an govt vice president at Brocade in which she was included with that company’s organization transformation from hardware to software-pushed networking. Her obligations at Brocade bundled the transformation of the advertising division “into a strategic development engine.”

Heckart remaining Brocade in November 2017, when the organization was obtained by Broadcom.

In yet another high-profile departure, Kanouff, who served as SVP and basic manager of Cisco’s Service Supplier Business enterprise, is also leaving the organization. Kanouff took more than the services provider device in 2016, after the organization restructured and expanded the group to include core routing, switching and optical networking, network and services virtualization, and services provider networks like cable, wireless, and cloud. She also oversaw the company’s video software alternatives.

But it is been a rough two many years. Cisco has frequently documented disappointing revenues for its services provider group.

Jonathan Davidson, SVP and GM for Cisco’s Service Supplier Networking organization, will fill Kanouff’s position. Davidson re-joined Cisco in March 2017, after a stint at Juniper Networks. Prior to working for Juniper, he held a assortment of management positions at Cisco, creating services provider alternatives and major the enterprise routing solution management and services provider services crew. – CT Bureau