Bangalore, Karnataka —Cisco has appointed industry veteran Alex Zinin as its chief technology officer for its service 
Zinin, a respected industry expert with 20 years in the IP networking industry, has helped shape key Internet routing and Multiprotocol Label Switching technologies. He has contributed extensively to the Internet Engineering Task Force as the author and contributor to a number of protocol specifications. He served as an IETF working group chair and as a Routing Area director, fostering the evolution and development of Internet technologies. Zinin is also the inventor of a number of patents and wrote “Cisco IP Routing: Packet Forwarding and Intra-domain Routing Protocols,” published by Addison-Wesley. Zinin joins Cisco from Alcatel-Lucent, where his last role was vice president for IP solutions in Asia Pacific. He was also an Alcatel-Lucent fellow, a distinction awarded to a very select group of engineers.
“This is a strategic and key hire for us in this part of the world. The industry is going through significant change as Internet usage patterns are being redefined by trends in cloud computing, video, mobility and social media. Alex will partner closely with Jeff White and Hiroyuki Tsutsumi, our vice presidents for service provider sales in Asia Pacific and Japan respectively, to help Cisco’s service provider customers navigate through this dynamic and transitioning landscape,” Overbeek said.
Zinin has numerous industry certifications, including the coveted CCIE® from Cisco. He graduated with honors from Kazan State Technical University with a Master of Science degree in computer networking. Zinin lives in Singapore but has spent a number of years in the U.S.