Padmasree Warrior
Padmasree Warrior is chief technology and strategy officer at Cisco Systems. Prior to Cisco, Warrior joined Motorola in 1984. She was among only a few women in its Arizona facility and served in a wide range of roles over the course of her twenty-three years at the company, eventually achieving the position of Chief Technology Officer in its Semiconductor Products Sector, which became Freescale Semiconductor. In 2003, she became Motorola's first female executive and in 2005 she was promoted to executive vice president. In 2007, she left Motorola to become CTO at Cisco Systems. Born and brought up in the city of Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, Warrior holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, from which she was recently recognized with the Distinguished Alumni Award.
