Tenth Annual High Tech Prayer Breakfast 2001 Gary Daichendt

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Gary Daichendt was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations at Cisco Systems until December, 2000. Gary joined Cisco in 1994 as Vice President of Intercontinental Operations, and soon became Senior Vice President of Sales. In 1998, Gary was promoted to Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations with worldwide responsibility for sales, distribution, manufacturing, and strategic alliances. As the second highest ranking executive at Cisco, Gary led a team of 22,000 employees in over 100 countries, increasing operational revenues and profits by over 50% per annum.

Prior to joining Cisco, he spent 10 years at IBM in various sales, marketing and management positions, and 8 years at Wang Laboratories serving as Vice President of Central Operations and Vice President of Marketing. He is co-author of the book, I-Operations, and serves on the boards of ClickAction, Packet Design, Azusa Pacific University, and FaithWorks. He holds a M.S. in Mathematics from Ohio State University and a B.A. from Youngstown State University. He and his wife, Cathy, reside in California.