Charles Giancarlo

Charles Henry Giancarlo

Charles Henry "Charlie" Giancarlo (born 1957) is an entrepreneur, investor, including being a former senior executive of Cisco Systems and Silver Lake Partners.

Life

Giancarlo holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Brown University, a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard University. He co-founded Telecom Systems in 1984, and then Adaptive Corporation in 1988.^[1]

Giancarlo joined Cisco in 1994 when it acquired Kalpana, an Ethernet switching company, where he was vice president. He became Cisco's first vice president of business development, where he developed Cisco’s merger and acquisition strategy and practice. In 1999 he took responsibility for the commercial line of business at Cisco, became chief technical officer in 2003 and chief technology officer in July, 2004.^[2] Giancarlo was responsible for many of Cisco’s technologies including Ethernet switching, Wi-Fi, security, IP Telephony, and telepresence, as well as Cisco's entry into markets such as the small and medium business and consumer markets after acquiring Linksys, Scientific Atlanta and WebEx.^[1][3] Although some analysts thought he might become chief executive after John T. Chambers, Giancarlo resigned from Cisco in December 2007.^[4][5]

In January 2008 he became a managing director and operating partner at the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.^[6] He was president and CEO of Avaya from June, 2008 (replacing Louis D'Ambrosio), through December 2008 .^[7][8] After the appointment of Kevin J. Kennedy as CEO, he became chairman of the board at Avaya, while continuing to serve at Silver Lake.^{[9] [10][11]}

Giancarlo founded ItsOn in 2009, and was a founding investor at other ventures.^[12] He serves on the boards of companies such as Accenture,^[13] Arista Networks, Imperva Tintri,^[14] and ServiceNow.

References

Further reading

• "CYBERATTACK INVESTIGATION:CHARLES GIANCARLO". Congressional Testimony. February 29, 2000. Retrieved 3 Sep 2011.