Derek Idemoto is Senior Vice President of Cisco Investments, listed on the Cisco Investments team page, and Cisco's own author bio describes his role as SVP of Corporate Development and Cisco Investments, responsible for optimizing external innovation through acquisitions and investments. Since joining Cisco in 2007 he has spearheaded more than 30 deals totaling over 15 billion dollars, including the acquisitions of Sourcefire, OpenDNS and Leaba Semiconductor, and he facilitated the 2.3 billion dollar acquisition of Duo. Before Cisco he was Managing Director of Venture Investment at ITOCHU Technology, the corporate venture arm of ITOCHU Corporation, and Vice President of Corporate Development at Overture Services ahead of its acquisition by Yahoo!. He earned an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, where he was a venture fellow, and a bachelor's degree in finance and marketing from U.C. Berkeley.
Education
MBA, Anderson School at UCLA
B.S. Finance and Marketing, University of California, Berkeley
Previous Experience
M&A banker, BancAmerica Securities
Investment banker, Cowen
Venture associate, Kline Hawkes & Co.
Vice President of Corporate Development, Overture Services (acquired by Yahoo! in 2003)
Managing Director of Venture Investment, ITOCHU Technology
Vice President of Corporate Development and Cisco Investments, Cisco
Was Vice President of Corporate Development at Overture Services, responsible for acquisition strategy, before its acquisition by Yahoo!.
2007
Joined Cisco.
2018
Facilitated Cisco's 2.3 billion dollar acquisition of the multi-factor authentication provider Duo.
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Has spearheaded more than 30 deals totaling over 15 billion dollars at Cisco, including the acquisitions of Sourcefire, OpenDNS and Leaba Semiconductor.