Cisco's executive shakeups are continuing as marketing leader Prashanth Shenoy announced he's leaving his 22-year tenure at the company and moving to cross-town rival VMware.

Shenoy led Cisco's marketing of networking, cloud and data center solutions, and strategy, and will fill similar shoes at VMware as the vendor's VP of cloud platform, infrastructure, and solutions marketing. Cisco declined to comment on Shenoy's departure.

Amid VMware's multicloud push, Shenoy is poised to be “a perfect fit” to execute the vendor's broader vision, SVP and GM of VMware's Cloud Infrastructure Business Group Mark Lohmeyer told SDxCentral in an email, citing Shenoy's technical background and deep knowledge of common customer challenges.

“He’s a proven leader that we feel can take our cloud marketing to another level,” Lohmeyer said.

At VMware, Shenoy will be responsible for both product and technical marketing for VMware's efforts around on-premise and private clouds, hyperscale public clouds, and managed service provider clouds.

Shenoy's departure follows Todd Nightingale's move away from Cisco as SVP and GM of the vendor's enterprise networking and cloud business. Nightingale plans to take over the role of CEO at Fastly at the beginning of next month.

The move also comes after Cisco reported scarce momentum coming out of its fourth fiscal quarter as revenues were flat year over year at $13.1 billion, and quarterly growth was down substantially. This is driven in part by the supply chain squeeze and is impacting the vendor's ability to increase profits despite increased consumer pricing.

Supply chain challenges also torpedoed Cisco’s Q3 results, though the vendor continues to ramp its backlog of orders. CEO Chuck Robbins said during an investor call that Cisco ended the fiscal year with as robust of an order backlog as the vendor has ever had.

“Based on that, the year-over-year decline was not a surprise nor is it concerning,” Robbins said. “It’s important to keep in mind that in the near term the rate and pace of our revenue growth is much more a function of component availability than on our quarterly product order growth.”