Jean-Luc Valente

JL Valente is Vice President of Cisco’s Service Provider Business inside the Cloud Group, and the General Manager for the Next-Generation Enterprise Network Alliance (NGENA) industrial partnership. Valente joined Cisco in 2013 as a software executive with 30 years of operating and leadership experience in building international software businesses. JL led the Ericsson partnership and 5G service provider strategy out of the SP business unit. He also contributed to the creation of the Cisco Service Provider Cloud and Virtualization Group and managed Cisco Service Provider Software Portfolio including SDN, Management, and Orchestration.