Liz Centoni

As SVP | GM of Cloud, Compute, and IoT, Liz Centoni sets the business and engineering strategy and solutions across these portfolios. Prior to this role, Liz spent two years as the SVP | GM of Cisco's Computing Systems Product Group, accelerating the success of Cisco’s flagship Unified Computing Systems (UCS) and HyperFlex product families. Liz also has been Vice President of Engineering Strategy and Portfolio Planning. As a key member of the engineering leadership team, she was responsible for shaping, guiding and managing Cisco's engineering strategy and execution across the company's routing, switching, security, mobility, video, collaboration, data center and cloud offerings. She has also served as Vice President/General Manager of the Service Provider Access Group where she led strategy, marketing direction and engineering efforts to grow Cisco's portfolio of Carrier Ethernet Access solutions.

Since joining Cisco in 2000, Liz has a strong track record in various engineering roles where she was instrumental in bringing to market industry-leading products and managing global teams. Mentorship, talent development and leadership are also an important priority for Liz and she is an active mentor and sponsor of underrepresented groups. She launched the Women in Engineering Leadership Forum at Cisco and is the Cisco Global Executive Sponsor for the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program. Liz is a proud recipient of the YWCA 2015 TWIN award, Cloud NOW 2015 Top 10 Women in Cloud award, and Million Women Mentors 2015 Mentor of the Year award.

Liz holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with a minor in Physics and Math from the University of Mumbai and a M.B.A. in Marketing from the University of San Francisco.