Charles H. Robbins

As chairman and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems, Robbins has focused on "helping companies, cities and countries around the world as they look to Cisco to connect everything and everyone by building the highly secure, intelligent platform for digital business." He previously served as Cisco's senior vice president of Worldwide Field Operations, where he led the Worldwide Sales and Partner Organizations, and helped drive and execute many of the company's investment areas and strategy shifts; senior vice president of The Americas, Cisco's largest geographic region; senior vice president of U.S. Enterprise, Commercial and Canada; and Segment Vice President, U.S. and Canada channel organization, where he was instrumental in helping build the industry's most powerful partner program. Robbins is chairman of the US-Japan Business Council; a board of trustees member for the Ford Foundation; and a member of the International Council for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.