Raghunath Nambiar

Raghunath Nambiar is the chief technology officer of Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) business. He helps define strategies for next generation architectures, systems, and datacenter solutions, as well as leading a team of engineers and product leaders focused on emerging technologies and solutions. He has played an instrumental role in accelerating the growth of the Cisco UCS to a top datacenter compute platform. Raghu was previously a Cisco distinguished engineer and chief architect of big data and analytics solution engineering, responsible for incubating and growing it to a mainstream portfolio. He brings years of technical accomplishments with significant expertise in systems architecture, performance engineering, and creating disruptive technologies and solutions.

Raghu has served on several industry standard committees for performance evaluation, and program committees of leading academic and research conferences. He chaired industry's first standards committee for benchmarking big data systems and is presently the chair of the standards committee for benchmarking Internet of Things (IoT). He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and holds six patents with several pending.

Prior to Cisco, Raghu was an architect at Hewlett-Packard responsible for several industry-first and disruptive technologies and solutions and a decade of performance benchmark leadership. Raghu holds master’s degrees from University of Massachusetts and Goa University, and completed an advanced management program from Stanford University.