Charlie Giancarlo

Charlie Giancarlo serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Pure Storage. He has a three-decade track record of driving growth and innovation at leading global technology companies. Before joining Pure, he served as Managing Director, Head of Value Creation and later Senior Advisor at Silver Lake Partners from 2007 to 2015, where he focused on business improvement and investment opportunities across strategic and operational initiatives for Silver Lake's portfolio companies. He previously served as an Advisor at Formation Data Syste Prior to Silver Lake, for over a decade he served in senior executive roles at Cisco Systems, including Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer. At Cisco, he led Cisco's multi-product growth, and was at the forefront of the Company's R&D efforts for all product lines, with entry into new markets, including IP Telephony, WiFi, VPNs, TelePresence, and the SMB market. He received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Brown University, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He also served as a Board Member at Accenture. He is an Advisor at Zoom Video Communications.