People at Work & Play

~ Being Successful at Work& at Play

Tag Archives: Padmasree Warrior

Padmasree Warrior

16 Sunday Dec 2007

Posted by Prem Rao in People

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Cisco, Padmasree Warrior

A 47 year old Indian-American lady has just won one of the world’s most highly prized jobs. Now being called the geek queen, Padmasree Warrior, has been appointed as  Cisco’s Chief Technology Officer.

She fills a post left vacant since July when Cisco promoted former CTO, Charles Giancarlo to the post of chief development officer. Cisco Systems was ranked No. 11 in the 100 Best Companies To Work For in 2007 by Fortune.

Warrior was the highest-ranking female executive in Motorola’s near 80-year history, achieving the rank of corporate vice president and CTO. Cisco chairman John Chambers , to whom she reports, has already dubbed her the world’s technology visionary.

She was once ranked as the 11th most influential global Indian and called a “rising star” by Fortune magazine.

To her credit, while at Motorola, Warrior was acknowledged for the introduction of a blog, ‘Innovate’, on which the company’s 25,000 engineers were encouraged to share ideas and information. “The future belongs to the genius of the collaborative innovator. In the past we had this notion of engineers working by themselves in isolation and trying to come up with things. And that whole paradigm is changing,” Warrior said

Warrior holds a MS degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University and a BS degree in chemical engineering from IIT Delhi. In 2007 she was awarded Doctor of Engineering, Honoris Causa from New York’s Polytechnic University.

Another case of a lady making it to the top of her profession. Another case of an Indian-American executive making a name for herself in the corporate world.

Advertisement

Prem Rao

Blogger: Prem Rao

Author, Book Reviewer, Coach, and Social Commentator based in Bangalore, India. View B P Rao's profile on LinkedIn
February 2023
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728  
« Oct    

Categories

  • A Step A Day
  • Best Employers
  • Blogs
  • Books and Authors
  • Careers
  • Communication
  • Compensation
  • Cricket
  • Employee Engagement
  • Employee Productivity
  • Employee Satisfaction
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Events
  • Executive Coaching
  • Executive Effectiveness
  • Executive Health
  • HR Function
  • In the News
  • Indian Economy
  • Numbers
  • Organisations
  • People
  • Personal
  • Personal Finance
  • Quotations
  • Sports
  • Technorati
  • Tips
  • Trends
  • Uncategorized
  • Work Life Balance
  • XLRI

Catch My Tweets

  • Really appreciate Air Marshal Nambiar's comments on the shocking demand for proof by Digvijaya Singh. He need not d… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 week ago
Follow @premrao

Prem Rao, Story Teller

Prem Rao, Story Teller

Recent Posts

  • Tapering Off
  • India at Rio: 2016 Olympics
  • Do We Indians Protect Law Breakers?
  • A Phenomenon Called Rajinikanth
  • Dr. Raghuram Rajan

People At Work & Play

RSS Feed RSS - Posts

RSS Feed RSS - Comments

Archives

Blogroll

  • Bob Sutton
  • Dan McCarthy
  • Daniel Goleman
  • David Maister
  • Ed Batista
  • Gautam Ghosh
  • It Can't Be You by Prem Rao
  • It Can't Be You on Facebook
  • Looking At Life
  • Marci Alboher
  • Mark McGuinness
  • Marshall Goldsmith
  • Penelope Trunk
  • Rachael Silverman
  • Tom Peters
  • Writing To Be Read
  • XLers Blog Spot

Blog Stats

  • 401,906 hits

RSS From My Writing Blog

  • Blog Moves To “Prem Rao, Story Teller.”
  • More on Querying
  • “Devnaa’s India:Delicious Vegetarian Home Cooking & Street Food”
  • “Christmas Mysteries”
  • The Best of American Magazine Writing
WriteUp Cafe - Together we Write

Blog at WordPress.com.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • People at Work & Play
    • Join 156 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • People at Work & Play
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar