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Dr. Gee Rittenhouse

Senior Vice President and General Manager

Security Business Group

Gee Rittenhouse is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Security Business Group (SBG). With strong executive management skills and deep technical experience, he is responsible for the company's global security business including strategy, portfolio, and architecture. Previously, he was the senior vice president of engineering for SBG, where he was responsible for development efforts across the business.

In 2014, Gee was named one of Cisco's Rising Stars by CRN after he was recruited by John Chambers to help the company shape its cloud and virtualization strategy. As vice president and general manager of Cisco's Cloud and Virtualization Group, he accelerated development of the company’s software stack, NFV and SaaS consumption model.

Prior to joining Cisco, Gee served as president of Bell Labs where he led the extensive transformation of the organization that followed the merger of Bell Labs and Alcatel's Research group.

As a highly respected IT industry leader with more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, Gee is often a featured speaker on advances in mobile communications and wireless networking technology, management, policy, applications and security. He has appeared before the U.S. Congress, U.S. FCC, European Presidential Commission, and World Economic Forum. He has twice been elected to the Global Telecoms Business Power 100, published numerous articles, and holds more than a dozen patents.

Previously, Gee served as a member of the advisory board for the University of California, Santa Barbara Computer Engineering Department, chairman of the board of Green Touch, and board member at the ALU Foundation, which has the goal of educating disadvantaged women worldwide. Currently, he is a senior member of IEEE and was the previous recipient of the IEEE Communication Quality and Reliability (CQR) Chairman’s Award.

Gee has a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Articles

April 10, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Redefining Security for the Modern Data Center in a Multicloud World

Global security challenges are ever-growing, especially with the rise of sophisticated threats. A growing concern for many of our customers is around security for today’s complex data centers. How do you keep data safe while you’re running applications in both on-prem data centers and in public, pri…

February 25, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Introduces a 5G Security Architecture to Enable Secure Network Transformation

If you’re anything like me, your mobile device is your lifeline, allowing you to be always on and connected to a network.  Smart devices, including our cars and appliances, are now connected to a network. We’ve seen steady advances in wireless technology and now we’re seeing trials of 5G connectivit…

February 27, 2017

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Enables a Secure Path to Network Transformation for Mobile Operators

For your customers, their connected device has become the center of their world. A typical day might go something like this. Wake up and ask a virtual assistant for the weather. Video chat with colleagues in preparation for a meeting. Incorporate high-speed video to create a winning sales presentati…

June 10, 2015

CLOUD

Intercloud Fabric: Simplifying the Hybrid Cloud

So. Much. Data. Every hour 300,000 new things connect to the Internet. That’s more than 50 million things a week. And by 2020, we estimate that 50 billion things and five billion people will be connected.  These are staggering numbers. And they speak to the rate of change that’s happening in IT and…

June 20, 2014

DATA CENTER

Want to hear Cisco’s POV on the top 5 questions about the Future of Cloud?

According to GigaOM, the use of cloud-based resources will be what’s “next” for IT in preparation for an in-depth look at the infrastructure that will drive the next decade of application development. At the recent Structure event, GigaOM tapped into the minds of cloud-technology industry leaders, s…