Mr. Ranganath Salgame
President, India & SAARC Region, Cisco Systems

Rangu Salgame is the President of Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader of networking for the Internet for the India & SAARC Region.

Prior to joining Cisco, Rangu spent the last four years advising and managing venture capital backed companies. He was the President & CEO of Edgix, an Internet infrastructure company, with operations across North America, Latin America and Europe . Prior to Edgix, Rangu was a s enior executive in Verizon Communications, a Fortune 10 company and one of the world's leading providers of high-growth communications services.

Rangu was the founder and President of Verizon's dat a s olutions subsidiary, as well as Vice President of Enterprise Marketing for the company. In those capacities he served Verizon's medium and large enterprise customers including the global financial and media companies in New York . Before joining Verizon, Rangu was a Management Consultant at Coopers & Lybrand (now, PriceWaterhouseCoopers / IBM).

Rangu holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania . He also has an MS in engineering from Virginia Tech and a BE from MS University of Baroda, India.