Donald Tucker leads Cisco’s acquisition and investment efforts related to the market for Collaboration products and services. Donald joined Cisco from Oracle via the acquisition of Responsys, and prior to that spent time at Jefferies & Co., Liberty Mutual Investments and Chevron in a variety of finance, investment and research roles. When I first met Forest Key, he was the CEO of Pixvana, a company building a cloud-based platform to enable the creation and distribution of VR content.
Read MoreFor all of us, 2020 was a year of immense, extraordinary challenges and change, but ultimately, it was a year that I would define by one word: resilience. For me personally, 2020 started with a role change, having been named the new leader of the Cisco Corporate Development team just a few short months into the year. I felt incredibly fortunate and humble to have what I consider the best job in the world – managing a team of domain experts; partnering with business unit leaders on strategy; and engaging with venture capitalists, investment banks, entrepreneurs and founders.
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