Mr. Giancarlo has served as our Chief Executive Officer since August 2017, and as our Chairman since September 2018. Mr. Giancarlo previously served as Managing Director, Head of Value Creation and later Senior Advisor at Silver Lake Partners, a private investment firm, from 2007 to 2015, where he focused on investment and business improvement opportunities for Silver Lake s portfolio companies. Mr. Giancarlo served as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Avaya, from 2008 to 2009. Prior to that, from 1993 to 2007, Mr. Giancarlo served in senior executive roles at Cisco Systems, including Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer, leading the introduction of many new technologies. Mr. Giancarlo holds a B.S. in Engineering from Brown University, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Mr. Giancarlo s qualifications for board service include his extensive executive leadership and operational experience at major technology companies, his broad knowledge of data center technologies and matters relating to corporate governance, his investor perspective and his relevant industry knowledge, including with respect to disruptive B2B technologies.