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Murali Gandluru

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Vice President of Product Management, Technical Marketing and Strategy at Cisco
📍 Saratoga, California, United States

Murali leads Cisco’s multi-billion dollar Data Center Networking business, focusing on creating secure, AI-ready infrastructure. His career spans large public companies like IBM and startups, including DuploCloud, which he co-founded. Colleagues describe him as passionate, visionary, and an invaluable asset with tons of energy.

Outside of work, Murali is a family man and an avid sports fan, actively supporting Liverpool Football Club and the Ohio State Buckeyes. He is also a musician with a passion for singing and playing the guitar, and he enjoys hiking in his spare time.

Unique fact: In addition to being a tech executive and startup co-founder, Murali is also a musician who sings and plays the guitar.

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Experience
26 Years
Current Role
Vice President of Product Management, Technical Marketing and Strategy
Job Level
Senior
Location
Saratoga, California, United States
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Priorities

Topics Murali cares about

AI Infrastructure
His primary focus at Cisco is building the next generation of secure, AI-ready infrastructure and unifying networks for AI workloads, a topic he frequently discusses publicly.
Data Center Networking
He leads Cisco's multi-billion dollar business in this area, driving strategy across the Nexus portfolio and shaping partnerships with major tech providers like NVIDIA.
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Career

Work history

4-2024
Vice President of Product Management, Technical Marketing and Strategy
Cisco
10-2023 - 4-2024
Vice President Automation Strategy and New Product Incubation
IBM
6-2021 - 4-2024
Vice President of Product Management and Strategy
IBM
1-2018 - 6-2021
Vice President Of Product Management and Marketing
Arrcus, Inc.
1-2018 - 1-2020
Advisor (and Co-Founder)
DuploCloud Inc
In the press

Media appearances

Matthew Landry & Murali Gandluru, Cisco | Networking for AI Summit. Featured in YouTube
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Education
2012 - 2012
Venture Creation
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
1998 - 2000
M.S
The Ohio State University
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