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 michelangelo `` mike '' volpi partner of index ventures stanford university
mike volpi

michaelangelo `` mike '' volpi -lrb- born 13 december 1966 -rrb- is best known for his leadership of cisco systems business development efforts as chief strategy officer during the company 's prominent growth era , acquiring over 70 companies in less than five years .
he then became svp of the routing and service provider technology group , where he managed over 5,000 engineers ; in early 2007 this was an $ 11 billion business for cisco .
he was considered the right-hand man and successor of ceo john chambers .
in 2007 he left cisco and became eir at sequoia capital .
a few months later , he was appointed ceo of joost .
in 2009 he became general partner at index ventures .
