By Telecom
Lead Team: Cisco has appointed Lalit S Chowdhary as senior vice president,
System Engineering for India & SAARC. Lalit is joining Cisco from
Alcatel-Lucent, where he was director sales.
Lalit will
report to Naresh Wadhwa, president and country manager, Cisco India & South
Asia. His primary responsibility will be to drive Cisco’s technological
leadership in borderless networks, collaboration and data center &
virtualization architectures across government, services providers and
enterprise customers in the region.
The Systems
Engineering organization has been pivotal in ensuring solution differentiation
and customer satisfaction for Cisco. We are happy to have Lalit as the leader
for this strategic team. We are confident that Lalit’s collaboration with his
counterparts in Cisco across the globe will help us drive closer alignment of
Cisco’s technology direction to our customers’ business needs in the India
& SAARC region,” said Naresh Wadhwa.
With
markets shifting towards more data centric applications and with the growing
adoption and use of video, it is predicted that internet traffic is expected to
grow tremendously over the coming years. With Cisco’s established leadership in
networking for the internet, this is a great opportunity to make a personal
difference to improve how people connect, communicate and collaborate and I am
truly excited to be a part of the Cisco team,” said Lalit Chowdhary.
Lalit’s work experience spans building world class products
and developing top engineering talent in the country.
Prior to
joining Cisco, Lalit spent close to 11 years
with Alcatel-Lucent in various leadership roles.
Lalit was
also associated with Hughes Software Systems as Engineering Manager responsible
for roll-out of wireless networks in Russia, Indonesia and India and with
Instrumentation developing fiber optics products and building telecom
equipment.
