Mr. Romanski brings 25 years of technology industry and investment experience to Siris. He founded and leads the Siris West Coast team based in Palo Alto. Mr. Romanski serves on the firm’s Operating and Investment Committees and is a board director of Pulse Secure.

Prior to joining Siris in 2018, Mr. Romanski was SVP and Chief Strategy Officer of Cisco. He was a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team reporting to CEO Chuck Robbins. In that role, he was responsible for executing Cisco’s strategy through acquisitions, global alliances, venture investments, and divestitures.

During his 18 years at Cisco, Mr. Romanski served in a number of corporate and operating roles and was responsible for helping Cisco develop leadership in critical markets such as Security, Networking and Enterprise Software through strategic M&A and investments. He led over $30 billion in acquisitions across over 60 transactions. Mr. Romanski also helped focus the company’s portfolio through strategic divestitures. He personally led the acquisitions of Airespace, Starent, Sourcefire, Meraki, and AppDynamics as well as the sale of Cisco’s Consumer Business (Linksys) to Belkin, Cable Device Business (Scientific Atlanta) to Technicolor and Cable Software Business (Synamedia) to Permira.

Mr. Romanski managed Cisco’s $2 billion venture investment portfolio, driving returns and market leadership through positions in VMware, VeloCloud, Cohesity, Mist Systems, PubNub, Mulesoft, and Puppet Labs, among others. He architected Cisco’s global alliance with Apple as well as spearheaded the company’s investment entry into emerging markets, including China, Eastern Europe, India, Latin America, and Russia. Mr. Romanski was Chairman of Cisco’s China Board as well as a member of the company’s Investment Committee.

Mr. Romanski started his career at J.P. Morgan. There, he co-founded the firm’s West Coast telecom practice based in San Francisco. Prior to that, he served in J.P. Morgan’s Natural Resources & Power M&A Group based in New York.

Mr. Romanski earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his BA from Columbia College.

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Frank Baker

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Peter Berger

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Jeffrey Hendren

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Joe Cozzolino

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Hubert de Pesquidoux

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Daniel Moloney

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John Swainson

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David Yates

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Alfred Zollar

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Tracy Harris

Partner - Investor Relations & Product Strategy

Harrison Lung

Partner, Portfolio Value Creation

Eli Mendoza

Partner & Chief Operating Officer

Hilton Romanski

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Ian Silverman

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Steven Spencer

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Sabina Haq

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Richard Rodgers

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Michael Hulslander

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Tyler Sipprelle

Managing Director

Stephen Catera

Principal, Capital Markets

Michael Chia

Principal, Investor Relations

Daniel Goetz

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Sandeep Guleria

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Prosper Vignone

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Andrew Barr

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Dionicio Herrera

Vice President

Kevin O’Brien

Vice President

Robert Turano Jr.

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Afaf Ibraheem Warren

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Elizabeth Wintle

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Nazar Bilukha

Senior Associate

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