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David Ashley is the Senior Vice President of Product Operations at Cisco Systems. His global organization of 850+ has the responsibility for end-to-end life cycle management of all Cisco branded products (Hardware, Software, Cloud) with a heavy emphasis on new product market launches and offer enablement. He manages the integration of the development and fulfillment supply chains to support all delivery and consumption models. Product Operations is the primary interface to all Business Units within Cisco.
In addition to David’s previous role as Vice President of Product Operations, his responsibilities have expanded to lead the development and implementation of the supply chain strategy and offer/service enablement to support enterprise goals. David also leads Cloud and Software enablement for operations. His strong leadership will lead Cisco through a transformational change to optimize performance and efficiency of product operations, supply chain and related functions globally.
Prior to his position as Vice President, David Ashley led Cisco’s Technology and Quality organization, a global team responsible for delivering customer-driven quality and reliability solutions in support of Cisco’s development supply chain. The team under David’s leadership is committed to drive a competitive advantage for Cisco by ensuring innovation and excellence in manufacturing technology, test and component engineering, advanced technology development, and closed-loop quality management.He launched several key initiatives with his team that championed improvements throughout the manufacturing process and extend visibility and collaboration deeper into the global supply chain, while continuously raising the bar on quality.
Since joining Cisco in June 2000, David has held various leadership positions throughout the supply chain. In a previous role, he managed the Service Provider and Enterprise and led the transformation of the Product Operations team, which resulted in increasing the organization’s scope beyond new product introduction to include the total product lifecycle.
Prior to Cisco, David held various management and engineering positions at Lucent Technologies and AT&T, starting his career as a design engineer for Bell Labs responsible for the design of telecommunication systems.
David has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.
He is the father of a 23-year-old daughter, who recently graduated from Southern Methodist University college with an Engineering and Math degree, and a 20-year-old son, currently attending New York University. His wife, Karen Ashley, is a Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions at Cisco. As a family, they enjoy skiing and spending time together outdoors.
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Cisco enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers. Cisco helps seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the unconnected. An integral part of their DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships, working together to identify their customers' needs and provide solutions that fuel their success. They have preserved this keen focus on solving business challenges since their founding. Len Bosack and wife Sandy Lerner, both working for Stanford University, wanted to email each other from their respective offices, but technological shortcomings did not allow such communication. A technology had to be invented to deal with disparate local area protocols, and as a result of solving their challenge, the multiprotocol router was born.