Warrior will officially become SVP/GM of Cisco’s Enterprise, Commercial and Small Business Development Group. As Cisco’s communications director John Earnhardt writes in a blog post, enterprise is “the heart of Cisco’s business and we are fortunate to have the talent of an (ahem) warrior take over this industry leading team of over 10,000 world-class engineering talent.”
The fact that Cisco is promoting Warrior, who joined the company in 2007, to this new position could mean that the company is teeing her up for a potential role as CEO sometime in the future. Enterprise is Cisco’s bread and butter, and it’s an important leadership position in the company. In the role, Bates was responsible for 70 percent of Cisco’s business, which amounts to $20 billion in revenue (and 90 percent of Cisco’s profits).
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Authors: Leena Rao