Taru Khurana

Taru Khurana leads Strategy, Planning and Operations for Public Cloud Marketplaces (PCM) at Cisco Systems. She is a part of the Acceleration Center which pioneers projects or initiatives which require accelerating and scaling at Cisco.

Before leading the PCM strategy, planning and operations team at Cisco, Taru was in SMB Marketing where she supported and led key marketing programs focused on the SMB segment. Prior to that she was on Cisco’s Thought Leadership team focused on analyzing and producing the Cisco Visual Networking Index and Global Cloud Index annual forecasts. She has also worked in the Cisco's Americas Services Marketing and the Go to Market organizations.

Prior to pursuing her professional passion for strategy, planning and operations- Taru managed a successful dental practice as a dentist.