Carlos Cordero

About Carlos Cordero

Carlos is an investment and business development executive at Cisco Systems. He leads the Global Infrastructure Funds Team, which supports private equity investments in digital infrastructure to drive Cisco\'s business strategy and growth.Previously, Carlos spent 11 years at Cisco\'s elite strategy and business development team, developing transformative strategies for Cisco\'s most important customers.

Experience

1. Director, Global Infrastructure Funds, Corporate Finance

   Cisco

   Feb 2017 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Leads a global team focused on sourcing and driving investments for a digital infrastructure PE fund with over $2.5B in assets under management (AUM). The fund invests exclusively in joint ventures and partnerships with key Cisco customers, as well as growth equity, revenue-share and structured finance opportunities. These market-disruptive investments drive new business in alignment with Cisco\'s Strategy. Carlos\' team leads and/or supports every aspect of the deal lifecycle including deal sourcing, business plan qualification, due-diligence, investor relations, portfolio management, and Cisco technical and go-to-market synergies.Select examples of deals include:• Sharon AI: AI Neocloud based in ANZ - https://massedcompute.com/• Massed Compute: US based AI Neocloud - https://massedcompute.com/• Working Group 2: Cloud-hosted mobility platform providing network as a Service for Mobile Operators and MVNOs- https://wgtwo.com• Weka.io: World’s fastest distributed file system- Cloudian: S3 enterprise object storage software- https://cloudian.com• Qwilt: Revenue share financing for content delivery networks (CDN) enabling service provider edge computing- https://qwilt.com• PacketFabric: Highly automated, carrier-class provider of private, hybrid, and multi-cloud connectivity- https://packetfabric.com• StrattoOpencell: Indoor mobile signal neutral host service provider- https://freshwavegroup.com

Education

• University of British Columbia

  Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Engineering Physics

  1985 — 1990

• Stanford University

  Master of Science (M.S.), Engineering Management

  1994 — 1996

• Stanford University

  PhD, Electrical Engineering

  1993 — 1997

• Stanford University

  Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering

  1991 — 1992

Skills

• Telecommunications
• Business Strategy
• Start-Ups
• IT Strategy
• Program Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Wireless
• Cloud Computing
• Business Development
• Consulting
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Planning
• Strategy
• Strategic Partnerships
• Business Transformation
• Management Consulting
• Management