We are poised at the cusp of tremendous opportunity: Cisco's Chittilapilly

Cisco's president for India and Saarc sees big scope in the digitisation of multiple industry sectors that have been poor adopters of technology

Daisy Chittilapilly, president of Cisco for India and Saarc, who is responsible for strategy and sales, operations, and investments to drive the company’s long-term growth in the region, sees the firm poised at the cusp of tremendous opportunity.

A BTech from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum, who holds a post-graduate certificate in general management from XLRI, Jamshedpur, Chittilapilly was elevated in July to her current position at the US technology giant.

Cisco’s increasing pivot towards software and services (especially amid India’s post-Covid economic rebound), she says, entails an opportunity for it to engage with customers, partners and governments in newer