San Francisco Bay Area, United States,May 2026 — Anuj Malik has been promoted to Senior Director of Product Management & Strategy at Cisco, marking a significant elevation in his product leadership journey with the global technology leader. In this expanded role, Anuj will continue driving product strategy, market development, go-to-market initiatives, partnerships, and growth across Cisco’s Acacia/Optical business unit.
Anuj has been with Cisco for over five years, most recently serving as Director, Product Management & Strategy, where he played a key role in outbound product management, coherent pluggable business for global service providers, and the adoption of routed optical networking by network operators worldwide. His responsibilities also included building business cases, ROI models, pricing strategies, and go-to-market strategies.
Before Cisco, Anuj served as Director, Product Management & Strategy at Acacia Communications, where he worked on multi-year product roadmaps, product business cases, market segmentation, pricing strategy, competitive analysis, and global business development with Tier 1 service providers and hyperscalers.
Earlier, he held leadership roles at Infinera, Ciena, and Hughes, building deep expertise across optical networking, telecom infrastructure, product strategy, software engineering, customer engagement, and global team leadership.
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