Padmasree WarriorSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Warriors energetic, approachable, and pragmatic leadership style integrates ideas from diverse sources that include engineers, sociologists, technologists, marketers, and policy experts. She has earned a reputation for establishing processes that tap a rich diversity of technical, business, and entrepreneurial knowledge to nurture disruptive and breakthrough innovations, then speed their development time to market.

Warrior joined Cisco in 2007. Prior to that, she was the Chief Technology Officer at Motorola. In addition to her work at Cisco, Warrior serves on a broad range of government and industry advisory boards, as well as those of charitable and community organizations. Recently, the San Jose Mercury News listed her as one of the 2011 Valleys Most Powerful Women. Fast Company magazine listed her among the 100 Most Creative People in Business, and she was one of six women nationwide selected to receive the "Women Elevating Science and Technology" award from Working Woman magazine. In addition, she received the 2009 Annual Achievement Award by the Forum for Women Executives and Entrepreneurs. In 2007, she was inducted into the Women in Information Technology International Hall of Fame.

Warrior holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi and a master of science degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University.