John Chambers

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Mr. John Chambers is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at JC2 Ventures. He serves as Advisor at Dedrone. He served as Advisory Board Member at New Era Capital Partners. He is a Board Advisor of Rubrik and SparkCognition. He was a Board Member of Airware. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Altiga Networks. He also serves on the Board of Bloom Energy. He also serves as Board Member at Uniphore. He also serves as the Executive Chairman at Cisco Systems. He served as the Chief Executive Officer at Pure Digital Technologies. At JC2 Mr. Chambers focuses on helping disruptive startups from around the world build and scale, while also promoting the broader development of startup nations and a startup world. He invests in companies across categories and geographies that are leading market transitions, such as Aspire Food Group, Dedrone, OpenGov, Pindrop, Privoro, Sprinklr. He also serves on the Board of Directors for OpenGov, Pindrop, and Sprinklr. Prior to founding JC2 Ventures, Mr. Chambers served as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and Executive Chairman at Cisco Systems. During his 25+ year tenure at Cisco, he helped grow the company from $70 million when he joined in 1991, to $1.2 billion when he became Chief Executive Officer in 1995, to $47 billion when he stepped down as Chief Executive Officer in 2015. As Executive Chairman, a position he held until December 2017, he led the Board of Directors and provided counsel to the Chief Executive Officer and leadership team on strategy, digital transformation, and strategic partnerships. Mr. Chambers also spearheaded the creation and development of Cisco's country digitization program, where he partnered with government leaders across the world to harness the power of technology to create economic opportunities. Prior to 1991, Mr. Chambers spent eight years at Wang Laboratories (1982-1990) and six years with IBM (1976-1982). Mr. Chambers holds a bachelor of science/bachelor of arts degree in business and a law degree from West Virginia University, as well as a master of business administration degree in finance and management from Indiana University.