Philip Kirk has departed from networking technology producer Cisco to lead strategy, venture investments and acquisitions at US-based enterprise software provider ServiceNow as vice-president of corporate development.
The move comes after 13 years spent by Kirk in the same role at Cisco, covering cloud, big data, analytics, infrastructure software and data centres. He was a board observer at two of its portfolio companies, Moogsoft and Puppet Labs, until his departure.
Kirk’s earlier deals had included investments in Platfora, which was acquired by Workday in 2016, and Piston Cloud Computing.
