Anil Menon — Global President of Smart+Connected Communities at Cisco

Dr. Anil Menon has been the Global President of Smart+Connected Communities at Cisco Systems, Inc., since March 2009 and served as its Deputy Chief Globalisation Officer. Dr. Menon helps Cisco identify and drive the development of new solutions, and business models for its customers worldwide. He is responsible for developing the strategy and leading the global execution of Cisco's S+CC business. As the Executive Sponsor of Cisco's Emerging Countries initiatives, he is responsible for identifying and addressing the next set of transformational opportunities in emerging countries like BRIC-M (Brazil, Russia, India, China and Mexico) and TIPSS (Turkey, Indonesia, Poland, Saudi Arabia and South Africa). His charter is to enable the transformation of these emerging countries by aligning Cisco's technologies, and business architecture capabilities with the nations' long and medium term developmental goals. Prior to joining Cisco, Dr. Menon served as Vice President, Corporate Strategy, IBM Growth Markets. In his seven years with IBM, he held critical global roles at both the corporate and business unit levels. Prior to this, he was a successful academic and business consultant. He was on the graduate faculty and later was the department head, marketing faculty at the Emory University Atlanta, USA. He was a Sony Fellow in Business Strategy from 1994 to 1996. He is on the Executive Committee for the Strategy Council at Strategic Planning, an international business think tank originating from Harvard Business School. He was awarded the American Marketing Association's prestigious Paul Root/MSI Award in 1999 for academic research in marketing and the Distinguished Marketing Practitioner Award in 2007 from Academy of Marketing Science for innovations in marketing practice. Dr. Menon has been a Member of Advisory Board for India at Citigroup Inc. since February 11, 2011. He is a member of the Board of Directors for The Center for Customer Insights at Yale University's School of Management and is on the Advisory Board of Johns Hopkins University's Carey Business School.