Wim elfrink cisco biography

Wim Elfrink
Age: 59
Designation: EVP, Emerging Solutions and Chief Globalisation Officer, Cisco
Education: B.A.

Engineering and Business Administration, Netherlands
Career: Digital Equipment Corp., Hewlett Packard, Rank Xerox and Olivetti before Cisco in 1997
Hobbies: Running. Has run 42 marathons

After four and a half years, how does your globalisation initiative look like?

I would call it an evolution.

Wim elfrink cisco biography

I came here as a corporate entrepreneur with the objective to create a new campus, the second headquarter, to move from cost arbitrage to quality work to innovation and find some new business opportunities. We’ve achieved that.

We delivered on our promise in moving 20 percent of the top executives here. What I leave behind is a mature leadership and market moving opportunities.

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