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Birth Place:
New Delhi
Age:
47(2007)
Achievement :
"Padmasree's new role will
help to develop and promote Cisco's future technology
leadership. She is a technology visionary, an excellent
leader with a strong industry voice and business acumen,
and we are thrilled to welcome her to our leadership
team," Cisco chairman and CEO John Chambers said in a
statement
"Cisco is the global leader in networking with a deep
heritage in technology. I am excited at the opportunity
to join a world class company poised to lead the next
era of Internet evolution,” Warrior said in a statement
Tuesday. “I look forward to enabling future growth
together with Cisco's top talent worldwide. Cisco's
customer centric culture and purposeful commitment to
innovation are integral parts of my leadership
portfolio.”
In the Motorola, she was responsible for the company’s
$4.1 billion research and development investment and
lead Motorola’s global team of 26,000 engineers. Prior
to that, Warrior was corporate VP and general manager of
Motorola's energy systems group and corporate VP and CTO
for Motorola's semiconductor products sector.
Meanwhile, Cisco, a company based in Internet
infrastructure, has been branching out into new markets
in recent years as it looked for sales growth. The
company in early November reported
fiscal Q1 2008
sales of $9.6 billion, up nearly 17% year over year, and
saw Wall Street respond by pushing Cisco stock near its
52-week high of $34.24 after the financial report.
Cisco’s stock has since slipped, coming in at $27.28 as
of 11am eastern this morning, but is still a healthy
distance from its 52-week low of $24.82.
"We are headed into a new era that we define as the
second phase of the Internet, driven by collaboration
and Web 2.0 technologies where the network becomes the
platform for communications and IT,” Chambers said in
the statement. “Padmasree's new role as CTO will help to
develop and promote Cisco's future technology
leadership. She is a technology visionary, an excellent
leader with a strong industry voice and business acumen,
and we are thrilled to welcome her to our leadership
team." |
