Philip Kirk – Cisco Investments – Corporate Business Development – M&A – Acquisitions – Insider Trading – Securities Fraud – Cisco Failure – Cisco Systems
Philip Kirk – Cisco Investments – Corporate Business Development – M&A – Acquisitions – Insider Trading – Securities Fraud – Cisco Failure – Cisco Systems
- Cisco shareholders DEMAND that Philip Kirk at Corporate Business Development & Cisco Investments be FIRED ASAP!!!
- Philip Kirk is single-handedly responsible for several of Cisco’s FAILED acquisitions and shamefulness investments that did not return any value to Cisco’s shareholders, customers, partners and employees.
- Philip Kirk’s finger-prints are evident on many of Cisco’s most expensive and failed transactions and controversial deals.
- Philip Kirk and his inept team at Cisco Investments and Cisco Corporate Development have miserably failed to act in the shareholders’ best interests by carrying out poor due diligence on transactions that never returned any value to shareholders (ie failed acquisitions – WebEx, Tandberg, NDS, Linksys divestment, shut down of Flip Video / Pure Digital and many other M&A failures that squandered Cisco shareholder capital recklessly).
- Philip Kirk and Cisco signed a non-disclosure agreement with one our entity and various other early to mature stage startups only to back out when an outrageously low valuation offer was turned down by our investors and founders; it is believed that Cisco Investments and Corporate BD had intentionally and deliberately misled many companies with a disingenuous false intent to acquire by signing non-disclosures only to gain access to their financial books and IP (intellectual property) and then they proceeded to share these materials with Cisco’s internal product, engineering and R&D teams. This is exactly what Cisco did in their failed quests to acquire Palo Alto Networks (PANW) only to be turned down after their investors discovered Cisco Corporate BD’s nefarious and unethical ways. On some instances, once Cisco’s M&A Corporate Development was turned down, these morally bankrupt imbeciles directly approached the VCs and/or investors behind our backs, only to be turned down later by them. Pathetic.
- Philip Kirk’s close relationships with Bay Area VCs and Investment Bankers is a toxic & poisonous mix that clouded his and his joke team of M&A virgins when it comes to careful diligence and objectivity (ie. never questioning the valuation models presented by VCs or sell-side bankers), even indulging in practices of insider trading and blatant acts of securities fraud per SEC rules given that Cisco (CSCO) is a publicly listed corporation.
- Philip Kirk does not have a single successful acquisition or investment deal to his credit. He is the ultimate epitome of failure and incompetence.
- Even the a joint venture put forward by the laughable Cisco Investments team has now dissolved with VMware turning against Cisco: http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-the-1-billion-vmware-nicira-buy-2014-10
- Also the shameful VCE venture has also been shut down due to lack of profits, that can be largely attributed to this laughable team that routinely scams and tries to gouge startups, mature stage and some public companies seeking buyouts as an exit option: http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/10/21/the-end-of-pretend-cisco-looks-set-to-partially-exit-vce-joint-venture/
- Philip Kirk is incredibly smug, arrogant, condescending, racist, xenophobic and self-aggrandizing. This is pretty funny coming from a failed team that have deals to their credit that have not raised Cisco’s stock price, market valuation and shareholder dividends.
In this era of the internet and social networking, unsavory types by the likes of Philip Kirk and the incompetent Cisco Corporate Development team need to be put on full blast shaming and humiliating them (wherever they go in their careers) so that other incubators and entrepreneurs oblivious to reality are not victimized by these vicious predators. Don’t let these inexperienced clowns low-ball any of you. Acquire self-respect and stand up to these innate failures just like we did. Cisco Corporate Development promotes a culture of deceit.
Send an e-mail to stakeholders @ Cisco’s top customers, its shareholders and executive brass @ Cisco, telling them how you feel, even DEMANDING that Philip Kirk and the entire Cisco Investments and Corporate Business Development & Corporate Strategy (CTSO) teams be FIRED:
John Chambers (CEO): chambers@cisco.com
Howard Charney (Advisor to the CEO): hcharney@cisco.com
Gary Moore (President and COO): gbmoore@cisco.com
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