Padmasree Warrior, CTO and strategy officer of Cisco, is likely to resign in July. COO Gary Moore and president Rob Lloyd have resigned.
The likely resignation of Padmasree Warrior, who was one of the contenders for the CEO job, was reported by Re/Code’s Arik Hesseldahl.
The likely resignation follows the appointment of Chuck Robbins as the next CEO. Robbins will be the first new CEO in 20 years. Current Cisco CEO John Chambers will be replaced by Chuck Robbins next month.
The enterprise networking vendor has confirmed the resignation of COO Gary Moore and president Rob Lloyd. Both were considered the front-runners to become the next CEO when Chambers retired.
Padmasree Warrior joined Cisco in 2008 from Motorola, where she worked as CTO. Earlier, she co-shared the role of head of engineering with Pankaj Patel at Cisco. When Cisco started its reorganization a few years ago, Warrior was out of that role, and Patel became the sole leader of the engineering unit. Cisco engineers represent 35 percent of its 70,000 workforce. As a strategy of officer, her role was more significant at Cisco, reports Business Insider.
The new CEO Robbins will announce a new leadership team within the next two weeks. Expectations are that there will be more top level resignations at Cisco. The new CEO indicates at a flatter leadership team.
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