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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000858877-25-000004"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CSCO"
cik: "0000858877"
company_name: "CISCO SYSTEMS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-02-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T23:10:06.671663+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cisco President Go-to-Market Gary Steele resigns effective April 25, 2025

## Summary
- Gary Steele, President, Go-to-Market, notified Cisco of resignation on Feb 10, 2025.
- Resignation effective April 25, 2025; Steele leaving for an external CEO opportunity.
- No successor named in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000858877-25-000004
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CSCO
- cik: 0000858877
- company_name: CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-02-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/858877/000085887725000004/0000858877-25-000004-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/858877/000085887725000004/csco-20250210.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000858877-25-000004
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000858877-25-000004.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000858877-25-000004.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Gary Steele resigned as President, Go-to-Market at CISCO SYSTEMS, INC..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: President, Go-to-Market
  source text: On February 10, 2025, Gary Steele, President, Go-to-Market of Cisco Systems, Inc. (“Cisco”), notified Cisco of his decision to resign from Cisco, effective April 25, 2025, for an external CEO opportunity.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/858877/000085887725000004/0000858877-25-000004-index.htm

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