Sailaja K. Shankar

Ms. Shankar has served as the Senior Vice President, Engineering of the Security Business Group (SBG) of Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), a leading global manufacturer of networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment, and other high-technology services and products, since January 2023. In this role, she is responsible for engineering – including strategy execution and architecture. From September 2021 to January 2023, Ms. Shankar was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of SBG. From June 2021 to September 2021, Ms. Shankar was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud and Network Security business unit within SBG. Prior to joining Cisco, Ms. Shankar served as Senior Vice President of Engineering, Enterprise of McAfee Corp. (NASDAQ: MCFE), a computer security software company, where she was responsible for its security and threat defense solutions across endpoint, extended detection and response, data center security, and cloud native application processes, from February 2019 to June 2021, and General Manager of Mobile and ISP Solutions Business Unit from February 2016 to February 2019.