Enterprise networking vendor Brocade has appointed Cisco executive Swapna Bapat as director of Systems Engineering for India.
This is a newly created role at Brocade.
Based in Bengaluru, she will be responsible for leading Brocade’s technical developments in data center and software networking, as well as developing best practices and excellence for systems engineering in India.
She will report to Orcun Tezel, senior director of Systems Engineering for Asia Pacific of Brocade.
At Cisco India, she was responsible for charting the go-to-market strategy for the Enterprise Networking portfolio.
Prior to Cisco India, Bapat worked with Alcatel Lucent, Ciena, and Juniper Networks, where she drove market adoption for technologies including IPTV, mobility, and network security.