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
BornDecember 8, 1957
New Jersey
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationMasters degrees in electrical engineering and business administration
Alma materBrown University, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University
OccupationChairman & CEO of Pure Storage
PredecessorScott Dietzen
Board member ofPure Storage, Arista Networks, Zscaler, Attivo Networks, Soraa, and Vectra Networks Inc.
Spouse(s)Married Dianne Giannetto
Children2 Daughters, 1 Son
WebsiteOfficial 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
  1. Alden, William (April 10, 2013). "2 Investors Give $35 Million to Brown". DealBook. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
  2. "Broadcom Is Expected to Name Its New Chief". Los Angeles Times. September 23, 2003. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
  3. "New gifts will expand School of Engineering". News from Brown. April 10, 2013. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
  4. "Pure Storage CEO swap: Dietzen out, Giancarlo in". Storage Soup. January 31, 2019. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  5. Plotkin, Hal (February 1, 1997). "Cisco's Secret: Entrepreneurs Sell Out, Stay Put, Going Public Article". Inc.com. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  6. Duffy, Jim (December 20, 2007). "Cisco's Giancarlo leaving company". Network World. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
  7. Kranz, Garry (December 15, 2018). "Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo races toward NVMe-oF, ponders HCI". SearchStorage. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
  8. "Official Cisco Biography page" (PDF). Cisco.
  9. Hickey, Andrew R. (December 21, 2007). "Yet". CRN. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  10. "Cisco announces reorganization". Associated Press. August 24, 2001. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  11. Duffy, Jim (July 14, 2004). "Cisco names third CTO, shifts execs". Network World. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  12. Hamblen, Matt (July 14, 2004). "Brief: Cisco promotes Charles Giancarlo to CTO". Computerworld. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  13. Kranz, Garry (December 18, 2018). "New Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo faces scaling challenge". SearchStorage. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  14. Lawson, Stephen (December 20, 2007). "Key Cisco leader Giancarlo steps down". Computerworld. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  15. Hochmuth, Phil (February 7, 2007). "Q&A: Where Cisco is focusing its R&D". Network World. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  16. "Cisco's heir-apparent Charles Giancarlo resigns". USATODAY.com. December 20, 2007. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  17. Hickey, Andrew R. "Avaya CEO Steps Down For Health Reasons, VARs Wish Him Well". CRN. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  18. Stone, Brad (July 3, 2017). "Lessons From the War Over Skype". Bits Blog. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
Business positions
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
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