Charles H. Robbins

Charles Robbins has served Cisco Systems, Inc. as Chairman since December 2017 and Chief Executive Officer since July 2015. He has also served on the Board of Directors for BlackRock, Inc. since April 2017. Previously Mr. Robbins was Cisco’s Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations from December 2012 to July 2015; Senior Vice President, Americas from August 2011 to October 2012; Senior Vice President, US Enterprise, Commercial & Canada from August 2009 to July 2011; Senior Vice President, US Commercial from December 2007 to July 2009; Segment Vice President, US Channels Sales from December 2005 to November 2007; Vice President, US Channels Sales from December 2002 to November 2005; Operations Director, US Channels Sales from October 1999 to August 2002; Regional Manager from November 1998 to October 1999; and an Account Manager from December 1997 to November 1998. Prior to joining Cisco he was in Sales at Ascend Communications from December 1996 to December 1997 and in Sales at Bay Networks (previously Wellfleet) from July 1992 to December 1996. He began his career as an Application Developer at North Carolina National Bank from August 1987 to July 1992. Mr. Robbins serves on the Board of Directors for the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council and is on the Board of Trustees for the Ford Foundation.