Jeetu Patel is an influencer

President & Chief Product Officer at Cisco

San Jose, California, United States
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About

I recently noticed that for the past couple of decades, my LinkedIn “About” blurb is all about my professional background. I realized that that is a very incomplete story and not useful for anyone looking to learn about me or learn from my experiences. So here is an attempt to provide you additional context.

Background: I was born and raised in Mumbai, India. I was the only child and couldn’t do any wrong in my mother’s eyes. That remained the case until she passed away in my arms on Feb 7, 2023. I miss her so much every minute of every single day.

I moved to the U.S. in 1991. A very long list of people helped me along the way. Pure dumb luck! I have one daughter who is infinitely more mature than her dad and I live with my partner Jyoti and our daughter in the Bay Area.

I wish I could say most of my accomplishments were my own, but frankly I would say 1% is what I did with the opportunities and 99% was a combination of luck, and angels in the form of humans who helped me along the way. LinkedIn is becoming a great way to pay it forward and sharing my learnings with others who are going through struggles or looking to capitalize on opportunities they are afforded.

Accomplishments: the older I get, what I am most proud of in my life are the people I call loved ones who are a combination of friends, family and work colleagues that I choose to be with. But unlike what social media tells you about people, for me, not every day is great. There are hard days and easy days. There are sad days and happy days. For everyone. Yes, at every level. But most importantly there are long days that feel short. If your life has too many days that feel very long for too long, remember that life is shorter than you think and make the change.

I like surrounding myself with optimists and believe you become the sum average of people you spend the most time with.

Professionally, I consider myself a builder. I love working with teams to build high impact products at scale that help build great businesses that improve lives of people globally. I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in infrastructure & apps, hardware & software, enterprise & SMB, for small, midsized and large companies across a multitude of technology areas over 3 decades in the workforce.

I am attracted to scale, impact and continuous learning, being surrounded by a smart group of hungry, curious people who are clear thinkers.

Lastly, I fundamentally believe AI is the most profound shift we have experienced in humanity and everything I do today at Cisco, I try to make sure I approach from an AI-first lens.

Articles by Jeetu

  • BoxWorks 2017: Developing a strategy for the Future of Work
    Sep 18, 2017

    BoxWorks 2017: Developing a strategy for the Future of Work

    Jeetu Patel, Chief Product Officer The way we work is changing fast. And so are customer expectations.

    2 Comments
  • The Ripple Effects of Autonomous Vehicles
    Aug 9, 2016

    The Ripple Effects of Autonomous Vehicles

    This is the continuation of a blog series about the ripple effects and unintended consequences we may experience from…

    8 Comments
  • The Ripple Effect of Disruption
    Jul 26, 2016

    The Ripple Effect of Disruption

    Nassim Taleb's "black swan theory” explains how major events that are completely unexpected are often rationalized…

    4 Comments
  • Join Werner Vogels and me at BoxWorks 2016
    Jul 7, 2016

    Join Werner Vogels and me at BoxWorks 2016

    This year's theme at BoxWorks is 'The Platform for What's Possible,' and in that spirit, we'll be showcasing stories…

    3 Comments
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Experience

  • Cisco

    Cisco

    6 years 1 month

    • Cisco Graphic

      President & Chief Product Officer

      Cisco

      - Present 1 year 3 months

      United States

    • Cisco Graphic

      EVP & Chief Product Officer

      Cisco

      - Present 2 years

      San Jose, California, United States

    • Cisco Graphic

      EVP & GM, Security and Collaboration Business Units

      Cisco

      - 3 years 3 months

      San Jose, California, United States

    • Cisco Graphic

      SVP & GM, Security and Collaboration Business Unit

      Cisco

      - 1 year

      As of August, 2020, I am honored to accept the position of SVP & GM of the Security and Applications Division at Cisco reporting to Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco.

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    Board Member

    JLL

    - Present 7 years 3 months

    Chicago, Illinois

    As of May, 2019, I am serving as a member of the Board of Directors at JLL.

  • Equinix Graphic

    Board Member

    Equinix

    - 3 years

    United States

  • HackerRank Graphic

    Board Member

    HackerRank

    - 5 years 5 months

    Palo Alto, California

  • Box

    Box

    5 years 1 month

    • Box Graphic

      Chief Product Officer & Chief Strategy Officer

      Box

      - 3 years

      Redwood City, CA

      As of September 2017, I have assumed an expanded role of heading up all products at Box.

    • Box Graphic

      SVP of Platform and Chief Strategy Officer

      Box

      - 2 years 2 months

      Redwood City, California

      As of August, 2015, I have assumed the role as head of the platform business and Chief Strategy Officer at Box.

  • General Manager & Chief Executive, Syncplicity Business Unit at EMC

    Syncplicity by EMC

    - 3 years 2 months

    Santa Clara, CA

    Since assuming the position as General Manager and Chief Executive of the Syncplicity Business Unit at EMC with full P&L responsibility shortly after the acquisition by EMC, Syncplicity has become one of the fastest growing EFSS companies in a highly competitive market.

    During my tenure, Syncplicity built a world class executive team with some of the largest customers in the EFSS market from a seat count and TCV perspective. The team has earned leader status with the most visionary…

    Since assuming the position as General Manager and Chief Executive of the Syncplicity Business Unit at EMC with full P&L responsibility shortly after the acquisition by EMC, Syncplicity has become one of the fastest growing EFSS companies in a highly competitive market.

    During my tenure, Syncplicity built a world class executive team with some of the largest customers in the EFSS market from a seat count and TCV perspective. The team has earned leader status with the most visionary rankings in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for two consecutive years. Similar positions were also awarded in the Forrester Wave and other leading analyst firms. Press and analysts frequently refer to Syncplicity as the Gold Standard in Mobile for Enterprise Software.

    In May, 2012, EMC acquired Syncplicity, a cloud service for enterprise file sync, sharing and collaboration. This is one of the first SaaS based solutions offered by EMC. I led the acquisition effort, and was asked to run the Business Unit shortly after Syncplicity became part of EMC. In July, 2015, I initiated and completed the divestiture of Syncplicity from EMC to Skyview Capital.

  • EMC

    EMC

    2 years 1 month

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      CSO & CMO, Information Intelligence Group

      EMC

      - 1 year 4 months

      In April, 2011, I took on an expanded role of running WW Marketing for the Information Intelligence Group (IIG) of EMC. In addition, I was Chief Strategy Officer for EMC/IIG in-charge of organic and in-organic strategy for cloud and mobile for the division.

      Drove the acquisition of Syncplicity at EMC, which went on to become one of the major players in the Enterprise File Sync and Share market.

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      CTO, Information Intelligence Group

      EMC

      - 10 months

      As CTO of the Information Intelligence Group at EMC, I was in-charge of the long-term strategic vision of EMC and helped formulate the cloud, big-data, mobile and collaboration strategies for EMC. This multi-year strategy continues to be a core part of the focus for IIG. Successful execution of this strategy has restored IIG back to growth in 2013.

  • Doculabs

    Doculabs

    16 years 8 months

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      President

      Doculabs

      - 7 months

    • Doculabs Graphic

      Executive Vice President

      Doculabs

      - 16 years 5 months

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Languages

  • English

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  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Gujarati

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Marathi

    Limited working proficiency

  • French

    Elementary proficiency

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    Jack Porter

    “I have known Jeetu for over 15 years and I think he is one of the best to span the range of "Strategy, Product and Go-to-market" thinking in the industry. He has extensive knowledge in the way enterprises work and a great understanding of how to position a software or SaaS company to leverage its value. Jeetu is a "must know" thought-leader in the enterprise space and an important influencer.”

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    LinkedIn User

    “Jeetu and I went back more than 10 years ago. He was my Strategic Marketing consultant when I was Divisional President at BEA and Senior Vice President at Adobe. He has provided unique market landscape insights and helped drove our Go-to-Market strategies. The fact that we retained Jeetu for both BEA and Adobe speaks for the proven values he has provided. In the past year (2012-2013), I have been advising young executives on their new companies and business. Jeetu was one of my 6 CEO/Executive clients. He has the responsibility to drive a new Sync-&-Share content collaboration division for EMC. The business was built based on the acquisition of Syncplicity. In the first year, Jeetu ensured a smooth and productive integration of this young team while not get trampled on by the big EMC. At the same time, he has to formulate a complex Go-to-Market strategy that enabled Synplicity to leverage and utilize the massive sales force of the various sales organizations inside EMC. Not to make the challenges looked too simple, he also has to recruit a grade A management team to fill the product management, engineering and marketing positions for this newly formed EMC division. The net result produced under his leadership is that Syncplicity's revenue grew in multiple folds and most important of all, he has won the trust and admiration of the EMC Sales organizations, the most important growth driver at this stage of his division. Any business person who has gone through post-acquisition integration, rebuild management team and leverage parent company's Sales resources to drive growth into the multi-millions all in one year and come out on top will have my utmost respect. I sincerely love working with this guy. He is vulnerable and therefore he is real.”

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