Naveen Menon

President, ASEAN, Cisco Systems Inc.

Naveen is the President for Cisco Systems in Southeast Asia. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Cisco Foundation. Prior to joining Cisco, Naveen was a Senior Partner for the strategy consulting firm A.T. Kearney and the leader of the Communications, Media and Technology practice in Asia Pacific. Naveen is a knowledge adviser to the World Economic Forum and led several public and private sessions at the Annual Meeting in Davos in January 2014 and 2015. He has been active in the domain of personal data and privacy since 2013. He is currently a board member of Digital ASEAN, the Regional Action Group, and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Data Policy. Naveen has a deep passion on how technology can support social outcomes. His CSR work in Cisco has focused on driving social impact across K-12 education, environmental programs and economic development. He is the Chair of the ICT Committee for the US-ASEAN Business Policy Council and a member of the Young President’s Organisation. He has an MSc in Chemical Engineering from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and an MBA from INSEAD (Fontainebleau/Singapore).