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Michaelangelo "Mike" Volpi (born 13 December 1966) is best known for his leadership of Cisco Systems business development efforts as Chief Strategy Officer during the company’s prominent growth era, acquiring over 70 companies in less than five years. He then became SVP of the Routing and Service Provider Technology Group, where he managed over 5,000 engineers; in early 2007 this was an $11 billion business for Cisco. He was considered the right-hand man and successor of CEO John Chambers. In 2007 he left Cisco and became EIR at Sequoia Capital. A few months later, he was appointed CEO of Joost. In 2009 he became General Partner at Index Ventures. ==Early life== Volpi was born in Milan, Italy. When he was five, his family moved to Tokyo, Japan, where he lived until he moved to the United States in 1984. He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering (1984-1988) and an MS in Manufacturing Systems Engineering (1988-1989) from Stanford University. and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (1992-1994). Volpi began his career at Hewlett Packard's optoelectronics division in 1989 where he was both in engineering and in marketing.〔 While at HP, he met his future wife Toni C. Cupal.〔(Mike Volpi ), nndb.com〕 He returned to Stanford for an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business (1992-1994).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Volpi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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