Chuck Robbins Biography
Chuck Robbins is an American businessman who is the chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems. Robbins began his professional career as an application developer for North Carolina National Bank.
Chuck Robbins Age
Robbins is 56–57 years old as of 2022. He was born in 1965/1966 in Grayson, Georgia, in the United States of America.
Chuck Robbins Education
Robbins received his education at Rocky Mount High School in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He earned a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1987.
Chuck Robbins Height
Robbins stands at an average height of 6 feet 0 inches tall.
Chuck Robbins Wife
Robbins is happily married, Together they have four kids. The couple lives in Los Gatos, California.
Chuck Robbins Salary
He has an estimated salary of $1,390,000.
Chuck Robbins Net Worth
Robbins has an estimated net worth of $115 Million.
Chuck Robbins Cisco CEO – Career
Robbins began his career at North Carolina National Bank as an application developer (now part of Bank of America). After five years, he moved on to Wellfleet Communications, which merged with Synoptics to form Bay Networks and then to Ascend Communications before joining Cisco in 1997. Robbins held several positions at Cisco, including senior vice president of the Americas and senior vice president of Worldwide Field Operations, where he led Cisco’s Worldwide Sales and Partner Organizations[3] and expanded Cisco’s partnership program. Cisco announced in May 2015 that CEO and Chairman John Chambers would step down as CEO in July 2015 while remaining chairman. Robbins, a senior vice president at the time, was named as his successor. Chambers is my mentor.
Robbins was unanimously elected as the company’s new CEO taking over as CEO of Cisco Systems in July 2015. As CEO, Robbins was credited with hastening Cisco’s modern growth. while disrupting outdated working modes; promoting employee trust through policy and process transparency; and humanitarian policies and workplace diversity, Robbins called for more regulation and for the tech industry to help educate regulators as the GDPR went into effect in 2018. Robbins advocated for comprehensive global privacy legislation in February 2019, calling privacy a “fundamental human right.” Robbins argued against a 15% tariff increase on Chinese goods. Robbins has been a proponent of corporate social responsibility.
Robbins is the chair of the World Economic Forum’s IT Governors Steering Committee and a member of the International Business Council. He serves on the board of trustees of the Ford Foundation. He serves on the boards of BlackRock and the Business Roundtable, where he chairs the Immigration Committee. Robbins authored a statement on behalf of Business Roundtable in 2018 that praised bipartisan lawmakers working to reform immigration policies while urging the White House “Administration to end immediately the policy of separating accompanied minors from their parents,” calling the practice “cruel and contrary to American values.” He has served on the boards of the MS Society of Northern California and the Georgia Tech Advisory Board.