Ankur is an Investment Manager at Cisco Investments, Cisco’s $2B global VC arm. He looks at investments and acquisitions in Industrial IoT, connected cars, IoT edge/ fog analytics, IoT security, AI, and machine learning. Prior to Cisco, Ankur worked in a variety of roles in venture capital and investment banking in Amazon’s Corporate Development team, The Carlyle Group, Helion Venture Partners and Avendus Capital in the US and India. Ankur earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago and also holds a B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.