Cisco Systems Names Two New Board Members.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 2000 Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Inc. today announced the appointment of two new members to its Board of Directors. Jerry Yang
Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Traditional Chinese: 楊致遠; Simplified Chinese: , co-founder and Chief Yahoo of Yahoo! Inc.; and Larry Carter, chief financial officer of Cisco Systems were elected by the Board in June, 2000. The election raises the number of board members to 12. Yang, 31, co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in August 1995 while he was a graduate student of engineering at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . Under Yang's leadership, Yahoo! has continued to expand its global network of properties to further strengthen its Web presence. Today, Yahoo! is used by more than 145 million individuals each month and is one of the most recognized brands associated with the Internet. "Having built a leading Internet media company, Jerry is recognized worldwide as a leader in the Internet industry. Yahoo! has enjoyed a long-standing business relationship with Cisco during the last few years, and Jerry brings invaluable technical competency and entrepreneurial spirit to Cisco's board," commented Morgridge. Carter, 55, has been the chief financial officer at Cisco Systems since 1995. His efforts have resulted in Cisco Web enabling its financials to monitor daily activity and to close its books worldwide in less than one working day. Before joining Cisco, Carter was vice president and corporate controller of Advanced Micro Devices as well as vice president of finance and chief financial officer at VLSI Technology VLSI Technology, Inc was a company which designed and manufactured custom and semi-custom ICs. The company was based in Silicon Valley, with headquarters at 1109 McKay Drive in San Jose, California. and chief financial officer and vice president of finance and administration at SGS SGS Société Générale de Surveillance SGS Symantec Gateway Security (appliance) SGS School of Graduate Studies SGS Subgrid Scale SGS Singapore Government Securities SGS Shell Global Solutions Thompson Microelectronics. Carter also spent 19 years working in a variety of finance positions at Motorola, Inc. "Larry is a tremendous addition to the board," said Morgridge. "His years in the semi-conductor industry along with his success maintaining a culture of financial conservatism in a company that undertakes aggressive business strategies make Larry a real asset to the board." In addition to Morgridge, members of the Cisco board are: Carol Bartz, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Autodesk, Inc.; John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco; Mary Cirillo, Deutsche Bank; James F. Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
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