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Kelly Kramer, Cisco

Cisco Executive Vice President and CFO Kelly A. Kramer
Cisco

Kelly Kramer is executive vice president and chief financial officer at Cisco, managing the financial strategy and operations of a company with more than 72,000 employees and fiscal year 2014 revenue of $47 billion. Kramer is committed to maximizing long–term shareholder value, ensuring a balanced portfolio of growth initiatives and maintaining the high level of integrity and transparency for which Cisco is known.

Previously, Kramer was senior vice president of business technology and operations finance, partnering with the development organization across business groups, segments and operations on strategic long–range planning, budgeting and forecasting. In addition, her organization managed finance for the company's supply chain, marketing, corporate communications, operations, HR and IT groups.

Kramer joined Cisco in 2012 as senior vice president of corporate finance. Prior to Cisco, she was vice president and chief financial officer of GE Healthcare's Healthcare Systems business. During her 20 years with General Electric she held other CFO roles including CFO of GE Healthcare Biosciences, a division in Life Sciences and Molecular Diagnostics. She also worked in GE's corporate headquarters, transportation systems and aerospace divisions. Kramer has extensive experience in financial planning and analysis, profit-and-loss leadership and mergers and acquisition.

Kramer holds a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Purdue University.