Cisco Video Chief Takes Leaves to Tend Ailing Relative

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Cisco Systems Inc.’s head of the video and collaboration group, Marthin De Beer, is taking a one-year leave of absence from the world’s largest networking equipment maker.

De Beer, a senior vice president who oversees set-top boxes, Telepresence videoconferencing systems and the WebEx online collaboration service, said in a memo to staff that he’s going on leave starting this month to tend to an ailing relative.