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Ruma Balasubramanian

Chief Transformation Officer Asia Pacific, Japan & China (APJC)

Spokesperson for Business Transformation and Digital

Ruma Balasubramanian’s role as CTrO focuses on how Cisco can embrace market transitions and successfully transform business models to thrive in the multidomain, multi-cloud world. She’s responsible for accelerating initiatives that touch country digitization, customer digital transformation and Cisco cultural change. Ruma also leads Cisco’s Global and Transformational Accounts for APJC. In this role, she is responsible for developing and executing Cisco’s growth strategy for the company’s largest customers, driving a consistent experience.

As spokesperson for Digital, Ruma has a keen focus on smart technologies that radically transform customer and workforce experiences, including IoT, Machine Learning and AI.

Ruma studied Computer Science at Columbia University, continuing her education with an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. With her husband and daughters, Ruma has lived in Singapore since 2007

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June 19, 2019

MANUFACTURING

The CIO challenge: Manufacturers demand always on, always performing, always contemporary IT

  Asia Pacific, Japan, and China manufacturers fuel the world economy, and their digitization practices influence global innovation, our investment climate, technology purchases, and individual country business and partner ecosystems. Earlier this month, I had the privilege of hosting the regio…