Charles Giancarlo
Charles Henry "Charlie" Giancarlo is an entrepreneur, investor, and executive. He is currently the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Pure Storage. He formerly served in senior executive roles at Cisco and Silver Lake Partners.
Charles Giancarlo | |
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Born | December 8, 1957 New Jersey |
Citizenship | American |
Education | Masters degrees in electrical engineering and business administration |
Alma mater | Brown University, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University |
Occupation | Chairman & CEO of Pure Storage |
Predecessor | Scott Dietzen |
Board member of | Pure Storage, Arista Networks, Zscaler, Attivo Networks, Soraa, and Vectra Networks Inc. |
Spouse(s) | Married Dianne Giannetto |
Children | 2 Daughters, 1 Son |
Website | Official Bio |
Education
Giancarlo earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Brown University in 1979.[1][2] He later became a trustee at the university.[3] He also earned master's degrees in electrical engineering and business administration from UC Berkeley and Harvard University respectively.[2]
Career
Giancarlo co-founded Telecom Systems and then Adaptive Corporation, before joining Kalpana, an ethernet switch company.[4] He joined Cisco in 1994 through Cisco's acquisition of Kalpana.[5][6] Giancarlo then worked at Cisco for 14 years.[6][7]
Giancarlo was Cisco's first VP of Corporate Development.[8] He led Cisco's acquisition and technology alliance strategies.[9] Later, he served as the head of the Commercial Line of Business at Cisco.[10] He later served as a co-leader of Cisco's technology divisions on network switching, voice, storage networking, and network security,[11] as well as serving as the President of the Linksys division.[12][13]
In 2004, Giancarlo was promoted to Chief Technology Officer and also led Cisco's government division.[12] In 2005, Giancarlo was promoted to Chief Development Officer and Executive Vice President.[14] In that position, he was responsible for all of Cisco's Business Units and divisions, including all research and development for all of Cisco's products.[15] He facilitated a consolidation of Cisco's engineering groups into larger business groups to bring more efficiency into product development.[9]
Giancarlo was seen as a likely successor to CEO John Chambers.[7][14] Giancarlo reported directly to John Chambers from 1997 to 2002 and from 2004 to 2007. Instead, Giancarlo's resignation was announced in December 2007.[16] He joined Silver Lake Partners as Managing Director.[6][14] While there, he served as interim CEO at Avaya.[17] He was also part of the team that bought Skype from eBay and responsible for its operational turnaround. Silver Lake sold Skype to Microsoft two years later.[18] In August 2017, Giancarlo was appointed CEO of Pure Storage replacing prior CEO Scott Dietzen.[7]
References
- Alden, William (April 10, 2013). "2 Investors Give $35 Million to Brown". DealBook. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
- "Broadcom Is Expected to Name Its New Chief". Los Angeles Times. September 23, 2003. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
- "New gifts will expand School of Engineering". News from Brown. April 10, 2013. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
- "Pure Storage CEO swap: Dietzen out, Giancarlo in". Storage Soup. January 31, 2019. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- Plotkin, Hal (February 1, 1997). "Cisco's Secret: Entrepreneurs Sell Out, Stay Put, Going Public Article". Inc.com. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
- Duffy, Jim (December 20, 2007). "Cisco's Giancarlo leaving company". Network World. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
- Kranz, Garry (December 15, 2018). "Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo races toward NVMe-oF, ponders HCI". SearchStorage. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
- "Official Cisco Biography page" (PDF). Cisco.
- Hickey, Andrew R. (December 21, 2007). "Yet". CRN. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- "Cisco announces reorganization". Associated Press. August 24, 2001. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- Duffy, Jim (July 14, 2004). "Cisco names third CTO, shifts execs". Network World. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- Hamblen, Matt (July 14, 2004). "Brief: Cisco promotes Charles Giancarlo to CTO". Computerworld. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- Kranz, Garry (December 18, 2018). "New Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo faces scaling challenge". SearchStorage. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- Lawson, Stephen (December 20, 2007). "Key Cisco leader Giancarlo steps down". Computerworld. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- Hochmuth, Phil (February 7, 2007). "Q&A: Where Cisco is focusing its R&D". Network World. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- "Cisco's heir-apparent Charles Giancarlo resigns". USATODAY.com. December 20, 2007. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- Hickey, Andrew R. "Avaya CEO Steps Down For Health Reasons, VARs Wish Him Well". CRN. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- Stone, Brad (July 3, 2017). "Lessons From the War Over Skype". Bits Blog. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
External links
- Official bio
- Interview Q&A in TechTarget
- Interview Q&A on CNBC
- Giancarlo speaking at UC Berkeley
- Q&A Interview in Tech World
Business positions | ||
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Preceded by Mario Mazzola |
EVP, Chief Development Officer Cisco 1993–2007 |
Succeeded by None |
Preceded by Louis D'Ambrosio |
President & CEO Avaya 2008–2009 |
Succeeded by Kevin J. Kennedy |
Preceded by John R. Joyce |
Managing Director, Head of Value Creation Silver Lake Partners 2007–2013 |
Succeeded by Mark Gillett |
Preceded by Scott Dietzen |
CEO Pure Storage 2017–current |
Succeeded by None |