Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) Presents at Deutsche Bank’s 2025 Technology Conference Transcript

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) Deutsche Bank’s 2025 Technology Conference August 28, 2025 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Jeetendra I. Patel – President & Chief Product Officer
Mark Patterson – Executive VP & CFO

Conference Call Participants

Tony Kerrison – Unidentified Company

Tony Kerrison

Well, good morning, everybody. Welcome. My name is Tony Kerrison, I’m the Head of Group Technology Infrastructure at Deutsche Bank, also around technology in the Americas. And very pleased and grateful to be joined today by Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer of Cisco; and Mark Patterson, EVP and Chief Financial Officer. So welcome, both of you.

Mark Patterson

Thank you very much.

Tony Kerrison

So let’s kick off then, maybe have an introduction from each of you and talk about your roles. I know, Mark, you’ve only been in the role a short time, but talk us through what you’re doing at Cisco?

Mark Patterson

First, sure. Yes. I’ve only been in this role 90 days, but I’m an old timer at Cisco. So 25 years, a bunch of different roles and responsibilities. And I think I’ve worked with every geography, every customer market that we have at Cisco.

Stepped into this role about 90 days ago, kind of went back to my roots, if you will. Started in finance, was CFO of a start-up that Cisco bought back in 2000. So just really, really exciting, great team. I think we’ll get into it today, but certainly, in the time that I’ve been at Cisco, we’ve got probably more opportunity ahead of us, and excited about that.

Jeetendra I. Patel

I’m Jeetu Patel. I took over the role as Chief Product Officer about a year ago, and I’ve been at Cisco for 5, but probably worth noting that we used to — for the longest time, we ran Cisco in multiple