Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Charles Giancarlo has served on the Vectra Networks board of directors since April 2014 and was previously an advisor to the company.

Giancarlo is a Senior Advisor to Silver Lake Partners and was previously Managing Director and Head of Value Creation. He previously served as a senior executive at Cisco Systems, most recently as executive vice president and chief development officer. At Cisco, he led the company’s overall product development and management activities and was responsible for over 80 percent of the company’s revenue.

Giancarlo serves on the boards of Accenture, Arista, Blue Jeans Network, Imperva, ItsOn, ServiceNow and Soraa, and is the chairman of the board of Avaya.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Brown University where he serves on the board of trustees, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley where he serves on the board of advisors, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.