Elissa Murphy is a Senior Vice President at Cisco. She possess expertise in cloud computing, scalability, agile methodologies, distributed systems, strategy and 45 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "Elissa isn't just one of the best managers I've worked for but also a mentor and a great friend. She took over her division at a time of great chaos and helped turn things around. She set a new strategic direction, took many measures to revamp arcane engineering/product processes and personally brought in industry leading hires (something which was not easy given Yahoo's churn). Best of all, she helped improve group morale significantly. Again, no easy task given the challenges at Yahoo. I would work for her again in a heartbeat." and "Elissa is one of the best leaders I've ever had the opportunity to work with. She came on at a time when the cloud group was trying to figure out its identity and short term goals but kind of flying rudderless. She immediately took on the difficult task of not only sorting out the assets and the functionalities of the various groups but also laid down the foundation of figuring out the short and long term goals of the various teams. She methodically approached the problem of product definition based on a customer needs and goal alignment for the group. In addition, she laid the groundwork for truly tracking project timelines and group output while placing the most needed of processes to help improve code quality and developer output. Elissa was the perfect person for the job by bringing some organization to the chaos of the cloud group and direction to the group's goals and ability to achieve them."