Visionary

Javed Khan is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Collaboration. This multi-billion-dollar business boasts the award-winning Webex product portfolio, including Cisco Devices, Webex Meetings, Webex Contact Center, Slido, Webex Events, and Webex Connect. Javed is passionate about delivering unrivaled collaboration experiences that fuel the future of work. He took on this leadership role in the midst of a global pandemic, leading and innovating through exponential growth as remote work unfolded. Now the team has delivered thousands of innovations and transformed the portfolio to help customers prepare for the next normal. In his tenure with Cisco, Javed has held several leadership roles in Collaboration, including VP/GM for the Calling and Meetings business units, where his team delivered several transformative initiatives, including a single meetings platform architecture and modernization of the Webex experience. Prior to joining Cisco, he served as Vice President of Enterprise and Consumer Security products at Symantec, securing the most important user and enterprise environments at scale. He started his career as an engineer at Novell Networks, moving into escalating leadership roles there and at Symantec. With over 20 years of enterprise and consumer product leadership, Javed is an accomplished speaker on the future of work, business transformation, sustainability, product development, and technology architectures. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Loyola University and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.