User:Ianwikramanayake/charliegiancarlo
Charles Giancarlo | |
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| Born | December 8, 1957 New Jersey |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Masters degrees in electrical engineering and business administration |
| Alma mater | Brown University, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University |
| Occupation | CEO of Pure Storage |
| Predecessor | Scott Dietzen |
| Board member of | Pure Storage, Arista Networks, Zscaler, Attivo Networks, Soraa, and Vectra Networks Inc. |
| Spouse | Married Dianne Giannetto |
| Children | 2 Daughters, 1 Son |
| Website | Official Bio |
Charles Henry "Charlie" Giancarlo is an entrepreneur, investor, and executive. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Pure Storage. He formerly served in senior executive roles at Cisco and Silver Lake Partners.
Education
[edit]Giancarlo earned a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Brown University in 1979.[1][2] He later became a trustee at the university.[3] He also earned Masters' degrees in electrical engineering and business administration from UC Berkeley and Harvard University respectively.[2]
Career
[edit]Giancarlo co-founded Telecom Systems and then Adaptive Corporation, before joining Kalplana, an ethernet switch company.[4] He joined Cisco in 1993 through Cisco's acquisition of Kalpana.[5][6] Giancarlo then worked at Cisco for 14 years.[6][7]
Giancarlo was Cisco's first VP of Corporate Development.[8] He led Cisco's acquisition and technology alliance strategies.[9] Later, he served as the head of the Commercial Line of Business at Cisco.[10] He later served as a co-leader of Cisco's technology divisions on network switching, voice, storage networking, and network security,[11] as well as serving as the President of the Linksys division.[12][13]
In 2004, Giancarlo was promoted to Chief Technology Officer and also led Cisco's government division.[12] In 2005, Giancarlo was promoted to Chief Development Officer and Executive Vice President.[14] In that position, he was responsible for all of Cisco's Business Units and divisions, including all research and development for all of Cisco's products.[15] He facilitated a consolidation of Cisco's engineering groups into larger business groups to bring more efficiency into product development.[9]
During Giancarlo’s tenure at Cisco he was credited with initiating many first in the communications industry including the first Ethernet Switch, WiFi products, IP Telephone systems and TelePresence systems.
Giancarlo was seen as a likely successor to CEO John Chambers.[7][14] Giancarlo reported directly to John Chambers from 1997 to 2002 and from 2004 to 2007. Instead, Giancarlo's resignation was announced in December 2007.[16] He joined Silver Lake Partners as Managing Director.[6][14] While there, he served as interim CEO at Avaya.[17] He was also part of the team that bought Skype from eBay and responsible for its operational turnaround. Silver Lake sold Skype to Microsoft two years later.[18] In August 2017, Giancarlo was appointed CEO of Pure Storage replacing prior CEO Scott Dietzen.[7]
Charles Giancarlo is the brother of J. Christopher Giancarlo.
References
[edit]- ^ Alden, William (April 10, 2013). "2 Investors Give $35 Million to Brown". DealBook. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
- ^ a b "Broadcom Is Expected to Name Its New Chief". Los Angeles Times. September 23, 2003. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
- ^ "New gifts will expand School of Engineering". News from Brown. April 10, 2013. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
- ^ "Pure Storage CEO swap: Dietzen out, Giancarlo in". Storage Soup. January 31, 2019. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- ^ Stangel, Luke. "Pure Storage replaces longtime CEO with Cisco veteran Giancarlo". Bizjournals.
- ^ a b c Duffy, Jim (December 20, 2007). "Cisco's Giancarlo leaving company". Network World. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
- ^ a b c Kranz, Garry (December 15, 2018). "Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo races toward NVMe-oF, ponders HCI". SearchStorage. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
- ^ "Official Cisco Biography page" (PDF). Cisco.
- ^ a b Hickey, Andrew R. (December 21, 2007). "Yet". CRN. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ^ "Cisco announces reorganization". Associated Press. August 24, 2001. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- ^ Duffy, Jim (July 14, 2004). "Cisco names third CTO, shifts execs". Network World. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- ^ a b Hamblen, Matt (July 14, 2004). "Brief: Cisco promotes Charles Giancarlo to CTO". Computerworld. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ^ Kranz, Garry (December 18, 2018). "New Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo faces scaling challenge". SearchStorage. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ^ a b c Lawson, Stephen (December 20, 2007). "Key Cisco leader Giancarlo steps down". Computerworld. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- ^ Hochmuth, Phil (February 7, 2007). "Q&A: Where Cisco is focusing its R&D". Network World. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- ^ "Cisco's heir-apparent Charles Giancarlo resigns". USATODAY.com. December 20, 2007. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ^ Hickey, Andrew R. "Avaya CEO Steps Down For Health Reasons, VARs Wish Him Well". CRN. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- ^ Stone, Brad (July 3, 2017). "Lessons From the War Over Skype". Bits Blog. Retrieved February 26, 2019.