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Cisco's senior vice president of global enterprise markets, Paul Mountford, has mysteriously gone missing from Cisco's website

There appears to be an unsolved mystery as to why Cisco's most highly regarded senior executive, suddenly disappeared from Cisco's famous Mount Rushmore.

Mon, 8/27/12 - 6:43am    View comments

Update 8/18/14:

Press Release: Riverbed Announces Industry Veteran Paul Mountford Joins Company as Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer

Update - 1:26PM, 8/27/12:

Mountford has indeed left the Cisco building

On August 2, 2012 Channel Reseller News (CRN) published the following story:

New Cisco Partner Accelerators: Revving Up Cross-Platform Sales

"Smart Solutions, conceptually, is not a traditional Cisco program as much as it is a way to organize Cisco's cross-platform products and services and identify how Cisco can help partners sell with them in mind, according to Paul Mountford, senior vice president, global enterprise market, who confirmed more details of the Smart Solutions initiative in an exclusive interview with CRN."

August 27, 2012:

Cisco's most highly regarded senior executive, Paul Mountford, suddenly disappeared from Cisco's famous Mount Rushmore.

Does anyone have any information that could potentially solve this perplexing mystery?

Related stories:

Press Release: Riverbed Announces Industry Veteran Paul Mountford Joins Company as Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer

Business Insider: Paul Mountford, Cisco's Head Of Enterprise Sales, Has Left

Bloomberg: Cisco's Senior VP for Enterprise Sales Leaves Amid Restructuring

CRN: Mountford has indeed left the Cisco building

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