Graham Allan is VP, Legal, Deputy General Counsel – Chief of Legal Dept Operations at Cisco Systems, Inc. Based in San Jose, California, Graham has been at Cisco for over twenty years, working in Cisco’s EMEAR region before moving to Cisco’s San Jose Headquarters in 2000. Prior to his current role, Graham has led a number of different teams in Legal, including the teams responsible globally for Cisco’s sales and marketing, (including Cisco’s captive financing entity, Cisco Capital), Cisco’s engineeering organization and Cisco’s Service Provider Business. Before joining Cisco, Graham was a partner at Baker & McKenzie in London, in the Intellectual Property and Information Technology Group.