DD Dasgupta
Vice President, Marketing , Cisco

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Dhritiman Dasgupta (aka DD) is the vice president of marketing at Cisco, where he heads product and solutions marketing for Cisco’s flagship data center platforms, including servers (UCS), switches (Nexus), storage (MDS), and SDN (ACI). DD brings nearly two decades of experience in building and leading high-performance product management and marketing teams at high-tech firms in a wide variety of roles, including software development, product management, business development, and corporate marketing, to name a few. Previously, DD was the vice president of marketing at Avi Networks, where he launched the company out stealth mode and generated millions of dollars of pipeline revenue from scratch; a vice president of product and technical marketing for data center switching, routing, and security at Juniper Networks; and a software architect at Nortel Networks in Canada. In his spare time he plays the bass guitar for several bands in the Bay Area and is an avid golfer.