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Aruna Ravichandran

VP/CMO Global Marketing, Webex/Collaboration

Webex Collaboration Business Unit

Aruna is a global marketing leader who is passionate about digital transformation, workplace transformation, and DevOps. With her 20+ years of experience in Marketing and management background, she is passionate about elevating marketing into an engine that drives thought leadership and demand generation, with a direct impact to a company’s growth. Aruna specializes in SaaS and digital marketing leading with data driven omni-channel marketing that contributes to the company’s revenue and profitability.

She is currently the VP/CMO of Cisco’s Webex Collaboration business. She is responsible for all aspects of marketing including demand generation, digital marketing, product marketing, branding and other supporting marketing functions for market leading Webex collaboration products. Before coming to Cisco, she has held leadership roles at several other companies – VP of Marketing for CA Technologies $1.5B DevOps business (acquired by Broadcom for $19B), VP of Marketing and Strategy for Software Defined Networking (SDN) at Juniper Networks. She started her career as an engineer at Hewlett Packard holding executive leadership roles in engineering and in marketing during her 17-year career. Aruna enjoys blogging about technology; she is an independent blogger for Forbes and other industry forums. She has also authored two technology books on DevOps.

Aruna was named the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley 2016 by the San Jose Business Journal, received the National Diversity Council’s 2016 Most Powerful and Influential Woman Award, and Silver Stevie Award for Female Executive of the year 2018.

She holds a degree in Computer Engineering and an MBA, both from Santa Clara University, and a graduate of Kellogg Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) program in 2019. Aruna also sits on the boards of California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo & Panzura.

Articles

March 10, 2020

COLLABORATION

Work From Home Best Practices

Tips For Working From Home Effectively Today’s challenging times have more of us working from home these days and our home offices and work practices are now an important part of our lives. Cisco Webex has been enabling effective WFH practices for many years and we’d like to continue to share what…

February 20, 2020

COLLABORATION

Announcing WebexONE – THE Collaboration Event of the Year!

First-Ever WebexONE We’re excited to announce and invite you to our first-ever WebexONE event, the premier collaboration forum of the year! Held September 14-16, 2020 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, WebexONE is a jam-packed, 2-day collaboration fest providing in-depth training, innovative i…

February 2, 2020

COLLABORATION

What do Cisco Webex, Football, and RuPaul Have in Common?

The Big Game Two things happened this week that motivated me to write this. First, there’s building excitement for one of the most anticipated and watched games in American sports, as the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs take to the field this Sunday. I’ll be among the many of us based…

January 24, 2020

COLLABORATION

5 Takeaways From the Cisco Workplace Transformation Summit in London

Workplace Transformation Last week in London we hosted our first European Workplace Transformation Summit.  Following the success of our previous WTS events in Melbourne and San Diego, we were excited to welcome some of the most influential Workplace Transformation leaders from this side of the worl…

January 14, 2020

COLLABORATION

2019 – What a Year for Cisco Collaboration!

An Incredible Year for Cisco Collaboration  It’s 2020 already? Wow, time flies when you’re busy and having fun, which certainly describes 2019 for Cisco Collaboration.  2019 was an incredible year and our team worked really, really hard to deliver more amazing technology and help customers leverage…

December 19, 2019

COLLABORATION

Congratulations to our Webex Combo Contest Winners!

Webex Combo Contest Drum roll, please! I’m very excited to announce the winners of our Webex Combo Contest for November and December! But first, some background on the contest. As I mentioned in my November 4 blog, our Webex Combo Contest invites anyone to enter by suggesting “great co…

December 9, 2019

COLLABORATION

Webex Marketing Team Is On A Roll — The Awards Pile On

You might remember back in August, I wrote another blog sharing our excitement when we received industry recognition for our Webex portfolio from PC Magazine and CRN.  Now I’m excited to share more great news with you! Cisco Webex Collaboration has been honored with multiple awards recently.  It has…

November 19, 2019

COLLABORATION

Cisco Collaboration and Channel Partners–Better Together

First Annual Webexceptional Partner Awards At Partner Summit, Cisco Webex Collaboration held a celebratory event to announce the winners of our 1st annual Webexceptional Partner Awards. These awards shine a spotlight on our outstanding Webex partner performance and celebrates their achievements. Con…

November 4, 2019

COLLABORATION

The Awesome Power of Webex Collaboration Combinations

Universal Combinations Guaranteed to Make Your Day Great What is the best part of your morning? We used to hear commercials like Folgers coffee say, “It’s Folgers in your cup”.  I think they were on to something big because millions of people around the world have a love affair with coffee and start…