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Munish Khetrapal

Munish Khetrapal

Munish Khetrapal

Managing Director, Solutions and Business Transformation, Cisco Systems

Munish Khetrapal has 22 years of experience in the ICT industry and has diverse experience in GTM, Consulting and building Solutions for technology, services and software.

He is currently the Managing Director, for Solutions, S+CC working with Cisco Systems based out of San Jose. His responsibility involves building and managing technology based solutions that help to address opportunities in cities, enterprise workspaces and residential homes.

He has led transformational projects, joint ventures, PPP and driven key investments to develop new GTM capabilities for Cisco in industry solutions and cloud based offerings. He has been working with Cisco Systems since 1998 across leadership roles in Enterprise and Service Provider business.

Prior to joining Cisco he has worked in IBM Global Services and Digital Equipment Corporation in Services and Software organizations. Munish Khetrapal holds a MBA at University of Chicago (GSB now Booth School of Business).

Testimonials

A lot of energy, lot of very dedicated entrepreneurs here, very passionate, very committed to what they’re doing.

Mitchell (Mitch) Kapor

Partner, Kapor Capital

The SVOD conference was a wonderful event. Networking is very important for start-ups. The challenge for them is often not money: it is mentoring and finding people who can give good advice from experience.

Esther Dyson

Founder, EDventure Holdings

Great conference, interesting presentations and most important, relevant participants with concrete ideas and tremendous willingness to mentor and help startups.

Adi Bittan

Founder & CEO, OwnerListens & Stanford MBA

The quality of entrepreneurs and the international flavor: it’s always fun to see where innovation is happening around the world. It was fun for us to see not only the quality of thought but also pace of execution and the teams here are becoming ready to play.

Byron Deeter

Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners ($4B under management)

This conference is clearly a labor of love for a group of dedicated professionals who care deeply about the European entrepreneurs. From the value-packed educational panels, to the star-studded keynote speakers’ line up, to an amazing quantity of venture capitalists – this is a not to be missed event for any high tech entrepreneur.

Richard Guha

President of the Marketing Executives Network and Managing Partner at MaxBrandEquity

Excellent! Great conference! Lots of People! Lot of energy! Enthusiastic! Everything is just going so good.

Vish Mishra

Venture Director, Clearstone Venture Partners ($600M under management)

The organizers here are doing an amazing job with selecting the people who attend, selecting the speakers, coming up with ideas for panels and discussions. The truly amazing side is that the audience gets bigger, more involved, active and more thoughtful. It’s just a fun place to be!

Daniil Stolyarov

Investment Director, Almaz Capital Partners (102M under management)

Cleary one of the very best conferences we attended and sponsored in Silicon Valley this year. To us the conference truly captured what we see in our daily practice, the substantial opportunities and also the challenges with cross-border business arrangements. We made many new meaningful connections.

Lars Johansson

Partner, K&L Gates