John P. Morgridge (born 1933)[1] is an American businessman who was the CEO and chairman of the board of Cisco Systems.
[5] He worked part-time at jobs such as washing equipment in a sweet pea cannery, digging stone at the quarry in Lannon, washing walls in Milwaukee's Pabst Brewery, doing road construction on Highway 64, and working as a railroad brakeman.
[8] He joined Cisco in 1988, then a four-year-old company with 34 employees, as its second chief executive officer and chairman of the board.
Looking back on his life, says John Morgridge, in addition to parents, church and school, "it's the community that helps form our moral compass.
"[16] Morgridge is on several corporate and charity boards of directors, including the Nature Conservancy,[10] the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation,[8] and was a trustee of Stanford University (2002–2007)[17] where he teaches management at the Graduate School of Business.