Rangu Salgame leaves Cisco India Operations

BANGALORE: Cisco Systems today announced that Rangu

Salgame will leave his position of president — Cisco Systems, India and

SAARC.






David Caspari, Cisco's vice-president of Service Provider Operations, Asia
Pacific, after a transition process, will become the acting president of Cisco

India, while a search for a permanent replacement for Salgame is conducted.






Caspari will continue to report to Owen Chan, Cisco's President of Asia
Pacific Operations.






“Rangu Salgame has been instrumental in the significant growth and development
of our business in India. Over the last three years, he has built a strong,

customer-focused leadership team. I would like to thank Rangu for his

substantial contributions - and wish him the best as he moves to the next phase

of his career,” said Chan.






Under Salgame's leadership, Cisco has experienced unprecedented growth and
gains in market share in India. The Indian networking market has grown rapidly

in the recent years, fueled by liberalization, market reforms and

telecommunications deregulation.






In October 2005, the company announced it would invest over US $1.1 billion in
India over a three-year period in recognition of the country's rapid

development both as a market and a center of research and development.






Salgame has been with Cisco for three years, joining the company in July of
2003. Before joining Cisco to lead the company's India operations, Salgame

spent four years advising and managing venture capital backed companies. He was

the president and CEO of Edgix, an Internet infrastructure company, with

operations across North America, Latin America and Europe.






Before Edgix he was a senior executive with Verizon Communications.





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