Chris Rowen
VP, Collaboration @Cisco
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WORK HISTORY
VP, Collaboration @Cisco
San Jose, CA, US
AI strategy and evangelism for Collaboration business and wider Cisco
EDUCATION
Harvard University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics
Stanford University
PhD, MS, EE
SKILLS
ABOUT CHRIS ROWEN
Chris is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technologist, now VP of Engineering at Cisco, working on audio, video, natural language and AI analytics for Webex conferencing, calling and contact center systems, with special focus on the future of AI. He has also developed and launched his Startup Bootcamp to help pass the torch on decades of success in building iconic deep tech successes in microprocessors, media processing and AI.Most recently he was co-founder and CEO of BabbleLabs, a speech ML company, acquired by Cisco in 2020. Prior to BabbleLabs, Chris served as CTO for Cadence’s IP Group, which he joined after Cadence’s acquisition of Tensilica, the company he founded in 1997 to develop extensible processors. He led Tensilica as CEO and later, CTO, to develop one of the most prolific embedded processor architectures, especially for compute-intensive embedded processing. Chris was a pioneer in developing RISC architecture and helped found MIPS Computer Systems in 1984. He has an MS and a PhD in EE from Stanford and a BA in physics from Harvard. He was named an Fellow in 2015 for his work in development of microprocessor technology. Chris is an avid runner who has completed a number of marathons, including Boston Marathons in 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018. More recently he has turned to trail ultra-marathons, doing 50km and 100km races in beautiful mountains around the world.
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