Bob Burnett
Robert Burnett, founding Vice President of Engineering of Cisco Systems (20020531)
Bob Burnett
Robert Burnett has more than thirty years' experience managing leading-edge technology projects. He was founding Vice President of Engineering for Cisco Systems, whose engineers he led in building the routers that made the Internet commercially viable. Burnett headed the first implementation of a complete COBOL compiler, and then the first commercial multiprocessor for Burroughs in the 1960s. He later managed the development of the first digital tester for VSLI chips at Fairchild and led the implementation team for Rolm/IBM's large scale digital branch exchange - yet another first. Burnett continues to work as an entrepreneur with for-profit and non-profit enterprises. He sits on the board of Xamplify. He is a graduate of Stanford University.