Presently, Roland Acra occupies the position of Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President for Cisco Systems, Inc. He is also on the board of Bidgely, Inc. In his past career he occupied the position of Chief Technology Officer, SVP & Technical Director at Cisco Systems, Inc. President & Chief Executive Officer for Procket Networks, Inc. and President & Chief Executive Officer at Arch Rock Corp. (both are subsidiaries of Cisco Systems, Inc.), Principal at Interphase Corp., Principal at 3com Megahertz Corp. and Principal at Bridge Communications Corp. Roland Acra received an undergraduate degree from Ecole Polytechnique and a graduate degree from Texas A&M University.