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Varun Dhingra
Varun Dhingra is an innovation-driven services product management leader with extensive expertise in market transformations, partner ecosystems, and competitive strategies. His cross-architecture knowledge spans automation, multicloud, network management and orchestration, data centers, and security, enabling him to bring cutting-edge solutions to market that create new revenue streams and enhance customer experiences.
As the Senior Vice President of Services Product Management at DirectDefense, Varun leads the development of a next-gen portfolio of security consulting and managed security services focused on accelerating growth, enhancing customer outcomes, and ensuring sustainable profitability. He drives end-to-end services portfolio management, product lifecycle management, go-to-market strategy, and helps scale DirectDefense’s services business through digital, partner, and high-touch channels.
Previously, Varun served as Senior Director of Product Management for Cisco’s Security Portfolio, where he led the successful launch of comprehensive portfolios, including threat detection and response, network security, zero trust, cloud and user security, application security solutions, and incident response and penetration testing services.
Throughout his career, Varun has spearheaded business units focused on as-a-service and consumption-based models, including security, hybrid cloud, enterprise 5G, and network automation services. His expertise has consistently delivered differentiated customer experiences and significant business growth across multiple industry verticals, such as service providers, enterprises, and the public sector.
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