Michael is Vice President and CTO of Cisco Networking, leading technical direction, architectural transition, solution architecture, and roadmap planning for Cisco’s networking portfolio. He drives Cisco’s leadership position in core, edge, aggregation, and access routing, mobility, cable, optics, and optical networking and automation software solutions in collaboration with partners, customers,

internal cross-functional leaders and the industry in reinventing the mass-scale networks of the future.

Before rejoining Cisco in 2018, Michael was co-founder and CTO of Skyport Systems, developing cloud-managed, on-premise, virtualized compute platforms with security, ease of use, and always-on analytics built in. Before Skyport, Michael served as engineering CTO at Juniper Networks, where he led new architectures, embedded software evolution, and silicon roadmap development across the router, switch, and Wi-Fi portfolios.