As the President for Cisco in ASEAN, Naveen is responsible for driving profitable growth across 10 countries in the region. He also serves on the Board of the Cisco Foundation.
Naveen joined Cisco from global management consultancy Kearney, where he was a Partner and Head of the Telecommunications, Media and Technology practice in Asia Pacific. In his 17-year consulting experience he consulted to CEOs and Boards of the largest companies across Europe and Asia. Naveen is a knowledge adviser to the World Economic Forum and his work in the area of personal data and Data for Good was featured in Davos 2014 and 2015. He is a board member of Digital ASEAN, the Regional Action Group and also a member of the Global Futures Council on Data Policy. Naveen has an MSc in Chemical Engineering from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and an MBA from INSEAD (Fontainebleau/Singapore).