Mike Volpi Biography

Mike Volpi joined Index Ventures in July 2009 and is a Partner in the London office focusing on investments in the Internet telecom, networking and media sectors. He also contributes to the firm’s later stage growth fund and he currently sits on the boards of Cloud.com GroupSpaces. Sonos and Storsimple. Mike began his career at Hewlett Packard's optoelectronics division, then moved to Cisco Systems where he was Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Routing and Service Provider Technology Group where he led Cisco's business for the Service Provider market and was also responsible for all of Cisco's routing and access products. In 2007 this was an $11 billion business for Cisco. Mike also served as the company's Chief Strategy Officer where he was responsible for Cisco's corporate strategy as well as business development strategic alliances advanced Internet projects legal services and government affairs. During this tenure Mike was instrumental in the creation of the company's acquisition and investment strategies as Cisco acquired more than 70 companies during his tenure. He has master's and bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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