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Rebecca Jacoby

Former Senior Vice President, Operations
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Ms. Jacoby was Senior Vice President, Operations of Cisco Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in IT networking, until her retirement in January 2018. She was promoted to the role in July 2015 and was responsible for driving profitable growth and enabling operational excellence. She oversaw the supply chain, global business services, security and trust, and IT organizations. In her former role as Cisco’s CIO from 2006 to 2015, she made the Cisco IT organization a strategic business partner, producing significant business value for Cisco in the form of financial performance, customer satisfaction and loyalty, market share, and productivity. Since joining Cisco in 1995, she held a variety of leadership roles in operations, manufacturing and IT. Prior to joining Cisco, she held a range of planning and operations positions with other companies in Silicon Valley. Her extensive understanding of business operations, infrastructure and application deployments, as well as her knowledge of products, software and services helped her advance Cisco’s business through the use of Cisco technology. Since 2019, she serves on the Advisory Board of ParkourSC, a provider of IoT tracking solutions creating continuous visibility into the location, condition and context of material goods and assets. Ms. Jacoby formerly served on the Board of Apptio, Inc., which provides cloud-based technology business management solutions to enterprises, from 2018 until its acquisition by Vista Equity Partners in January of 2019, as well as the Board of Quantum Corporation, which provides technology and services to help customers capture, create and share digital content, from 2019 to 2023.

Ms. Jacoby spent six years on the board of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties and is a founding member of the Technology Business Management Council. Known for her strong track record of operational excellence, innovative problem solving and talent development, she was inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame by CIO magazine and was recognized by Forbes as a “Superstar CIO” in 2012.

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