Maciej Kranz (born 22 November 1964; Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American executive, New York Times bestselling author, angel investor, and an Internet of Things (IoT) expert. He currently serves as Vice President of Innovation at Cisco Systems and is a frequent speaker in the fields of IoT and business practices in the tech sector.
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Early life
Maciej Kranz was born on 22 November 1964 in Warsaw, Poland to Jan and Malgorzata Kranz. He studied at the Warsaw School of Economics, during which he served as National Committee Exchange Controller for AIESEC in Poland. Kranz later obtained his MBA at Texas Christian University.
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Career
Prior to joining Cisco Systems, Kranz served as the Vice President of Marketing for IP Highway, Inc. and worked in product management at both 3Com, where he led the expansion and development of its ethernet network interface cards into a $1 billion product line, and IBM.
Kranz joined Cisco in 1999, where he led marketing for Cisco's stackable ethernet switching business unit. He became Vice President of Marketing for the Wireless Networking Business Unit in 2006, during which time he drove the development of Cisco Motion, a mobility vision architecture.
Kranz led the Borderless Networks effort in 2009 and in 2012 became a General Manager of the Connected Industries Group where he drove Cisco's IoT internet of things (IoT) efforts.
Kranz serves as a member of the boards of directors for IoTecha Corp and is on the faculty of Singularity University.
Books
Kranz's book Building the Internet of Things is on the New York Times' and USA Today's bestseller lists and was listed as one of the 10 business books every entrepreneur should read in 2017 by Fortune Magazine. The book was also selected as one of the 10 books for innovators and entrepreneurs to read by Economía y Negocios. It has been translated into 10 languages.
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External links
- Profile at Cisco Blogs
- Profile at Twitter
- Profile at Bloomberg
- Profile at Forbes
- Profile at Network World
- Profile at World Economic Forum
- Profile at Entrepreneur
- Profile at Harvard Business Review
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