From Cisco Live 2024 Melbourne – KB On The Go | Raj Chopra, SVP & Chief Product Officer, Security Business Group, Cisco, Angelique Medina, Head of Internet Intelligence at Cisco ThousandEyes, and Matt Caulfield, VP of Product for Duo and Identity, Cisc...

In this episode, KB sits down with Raj Chopra, SVP & Chief Product Officer, Security Business Group, Cisco, Angelique Medina, Head of Internet Intelligence at Cisco ThousandEyes, and Matt Caulfield, VP of Product for Duo and Identity, Cisco on the ground at Cisco Live 2024 in Melbourne. Together they discuss Cisco’s vision of being an AI first company, data in flight, and the concept of ‘identity is the new spam’.

Raj Chopra, SVP & Chief Product Officer, Security Business Group, Cisco Raj Chopra is SVP and Chief Product Officer of the Cisco Security Product Management organization, where he leads strategy and execution for Cisco Security and SD-WAN products, ensuring comprehensive security for all users, from any device to any network or application.|

Raj is a seasoned executive with a proven record of delivering market-leading innovation in security with a strong focus on user-first experiences. He is a strong advocate of supporting diverse teams and equitable environments that bring out the best in everyone.

Prior to taking on this role, Raj led product, design, and strategy for Proofpoint’s flagship Email Security portfolio, helping grow that business nearly 3-fold in 4 years.

Before Proofpoint, Raj was part of the founding team of Netskope. He built both the product and new market category of CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) and spurred its growth into SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) and SSE (Security Services Edge). During his career, he launched more than a dozen cybersecurity products, including several in the past 15 years that rose to $250M+ in product revenue.

Raj holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and a BS in Computer Science from NIT (National Institutes of Technology) India and has a growing eagerness to go deeper into in his yoga practice.

Angelique Medina, Head of Internet Intelligence, Cisco ThousandEyes Angelique Medina is Head of Internet Intelligence at Cisco ThousandEyes, where she reports on all things Internet related, from BGP routing and outages to the performance of edge and cloud-based services. She has more than a decade of experience in the networking industry.

Matt Caulfield, Vice President of Product for Duo and Identity, Cisco Matt Caulfield is VP of Product for Duo and Identity at Cisco, where he leads Cisco’s strategy and thought leadership in all things identity. Previously, Matt was the Founder & CEO of Oort, a venture-backed Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) pioneer, which was founded in 2019 and acquired by Cisco in 2023. Matt has a technical background and is an expert in identity, networking, cloud, and security domains. Until 2018, he led the Cisco Boston Innovation Team focusing on new product initiatives.