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Gary Daichendt is the founder and Chairman of the commercial real estate firm, TheoryR Properties.

He retired from Cisco Systems in December, 2000 where he was the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations. Gary joined Cisco in 1994 as Vice President of Intercontinental Operations and soon became Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations.

In 1998, Gary was promoted to Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations with worldwide responsibility for sales, support, distribution, manufacturing, and strategic alliances.

As the second highest ranking executive at Cisco, he led a team of 12,000 employees in over 100 countries, increasing operational revenues and profits by over 50% per annum. After Cisco, he also briefly served as president and COO of Nortel Networks.

Prior to joining Cisco, he spent 10 years at IBM in various engineering, sales, marketing, and management positions and 8 years at Wang Laboratories serving as Vice President of Central Operations and Vice President of Marketing.

He is co-author of the book, I-Operations, and serves on the public boards of NCR Corporation, Juniper Networks, Polycom and Emulex. He has also served on the boards of multiple Christian organizations including Azusa Pacific University, Walk Thru the Bible, Living on the Edge, and NAEN Ministries.

He holds a M.S. in Mathematics from Ohio State University and a B.A. from Youngstown State University. He and his wife, Cathy, reside in California.