Bruce enjoys working at Cisco for the opportunity to work with people who are really world class in so many different fields. When asked how he would define innovation, Bruce said "I think it's identifying and solving real-world problems that have not been solved before, or finding significantly novel and better solutions that t hose currently in use."

Prior to joining Cisco, Bruce worked at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) and led a number of networking research projects as director of internetworking research and chief scientist. He has more that 12 years of networking and communications industry experience.

Some of his prominent contributions to the industry include authoring numerous books, journal articles, conference paper and invited book chapters on IP networking. Dr. Davie has presented at numerous conferences and industry events including MPLScon, MPLS Global Summit 2000, MPLS Next Generation Networking and the MPLS 2000 International Conference.

He is also an active member of both the End-to-End Research Group and the Internet Engineering Task Force, as well as a senior member of the IEEE. Dr. Davie has a bachelor's degree in Engineering from Melbourne University and a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh.