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Cisco announces changes to its executive leadership team

By TechTaffy Desk

Cisco has announced changes to its executive leadership team. Rebecca Jacoby, senior vice president of Operations, will be retiring. She will continue on as an advisor until end of May, says the networking giant.

Cisco senior vice president of Asia Pacific and Japan Irving Tan will take on the newly created role of senior vice president of Operations and Digital. In this expanded role, Mr. Tan will be responsible for Cisco’s digital transformation across the company in partnership with Sales, Engineering and other functions.

Executive vice president of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations, Chris Dedicoat, will be leaving the company at the end of the current fiscal year on July 28, 2018, and will transition to a senior advisory role to Cisco chairman and CEO, Chuck Robbins.

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