Amey Parandekar

About Amey Parandekar

Business, product and engineering leader with 25+ years of experience; leading multiple SaaS products through concept, design, development, launch and growth phases including Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, Azure, Office 365 and Skype Consumer/Business (Lync) Building the world\'s most innovative, enterprise grade cloud calling service powering great customer experience via the Webex Calling and Contact Center platform. GM for the Cisco Calling business driving X B$ in ARR and securing M in large deals. At Microsoft, led expansion of Azure IaaS infrastructure into 60+ worldwide commercial regions. Built Azure for US Government and Air-gap clouds (US-NAT and US-SEC) including delivering services with enterprise security, protection, compliance, scale and 4 9s resiliencyBuilt Microsoft Teams Meeting, Calendar, Calling & Live Events from ground up and expanded to 200M+ users and Billions of minutes/day usage Developed AI powered communications platform including Audio AI, Video AI, Cloud Recording, Captions, Transcription, Translation & large meetings.Passionate customer advocate, worked with Fortune 500 customers in Tech, Consulting, Financial services, Healthcare, Retail, Manufacturing, Government, Defense through pre sales and product rollout for 100s of millions of usersHired, mentored and grew diverse & inclusive teams of product managers, engineering, UX across US, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Prague, India, Australia & Japan. Leading teams of 70+ Product Managers, leading engineering and operations of of engineers

Experience

1. Vice President of Product & Gm

   Cisco

   Feb 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   VP Product & GM for the $2B+ Cisco Calling and Webex platform world wide expansion to commercial and regulated/federal industries. Enabling customers and partners, driving Telco partnerships and growing ARR for Webex & CiscoBuilt next-gen Calling Platform with 18+M phone (PSTN) users, Webex Calling is an enterprise grade cloud phone system, mobile first, AI infused and available in 198+ countries. via 100+ vertically integrated Cisco (IaaS) and on AWSPowering 100M+ users and 10B+ calls with Webex Calling, Unified Communications Manager & BroadWorks for innovative & mission critical calling experience to customers in Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Education, Tech, Federal Government & Defense verticalsOur customers use the Webex app, MS Teams & IP phones with hot-desking, mobile phones, Room systems for a great experience with crystal clear audio, rich video, high fidelity sharing and real-time AI & LLM powered experiences such as recording, transcription, summaries and agentic AI. Our AV experience is the best in the industry with an AI codec, voice isolation, background & PSTN noise cancellation, background blur/replacement.Built comprehensive interface (Control Hub), zero trust security & compliance, FedRamp, DOD and international certifications, customers have flexibility to deploy across 100s of sites and millions of usersBuilt and launched Contact Center lite solution - powering lightening fast, effective customer service with AI infused agent and supervisor experience and analytics; for front line workers at banks, retail stores, pharmacies & clinicsWe have flexible PSTN plan options 80+ countries with Tier-1 Telcos providing Cloud PSTN & network for Calling & Contact Center scenarios (eg AT & T, Verizon, BT, DT, OBS, Tata, NTT, KDDI, Telstra) and Cisco PSTN plans.Leader in Gartner UCaaS magic quadrant 7 years YoY,#1 in Metrigy UCaaS 2025 report.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  Bachelor of Technology

• North Carolina State University

  Master's degree, Engineering

Skills

• Program Management
• Software Development
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Product Management
• Unified Communications