Cisco loses chief development officer

Charlie Giancarlo, former CDO of Cisco, resigned today. Charlie was the expected successor to John Chambers, but recent political moves within Cisco suggested that succession, if it happened at all, would be long delayed. Giancarlo was a strategist, a thinker, and not a salesman or a showman, and Chambers is clearly both of the latter. Cisco’s reorganization seems to show that there will not be a designated heir to Chambers in the near term