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Speaker Bio - Robin Ritch

Afternoon Keynote Speaker

photo, Sapna Cheryan

Robin Ritch is Director of Business Development at Cisco Systems, with expertise in wireless, enterprise and consumer software and hardware. She leads the introduction of new products and services, and designs and implements strategies for global ecosystem development.

Previously, she was the Director of Business Incubation/Development, Emerging Technologies Group (ETG) for a high profile Cisco initiative, charged with incubating the next $1B business units by creating services or product lines in new and adjacent technology markets.

Prior to working for Cisco, Robin worked for the Cambridge Strategic Management Group, Intel, TenFold Corporation and Microsoft in a variety of marketing, product management, business development, strategy and finance roles. During her time at Intel, she took a ten month leave of absence to teach business school students in Tsinghua University as a Foreign Expert Professor.