Mumbai: Cisco Systems, today announced the appointment of Pramodh Menon as vice president, channels, India & SAARC. Pramodh takes over from Shirish Joshi, who moves on to his new role as head of channels and commercial operations, Cisco Systems, South Asia.

Menon has more than 12 years of industry experience with more than seven years in Cisco India. He was most recently VP, strategy and operations, Cisco India, before which he worked in various sales and channel management positions in Cisco.

Prior to starting his career in Cisco in 1998, Pramodh was with Cabletron Systems and Wipro Ltd.