How A Cisco Exec Vanquished An Internet Troll And Saved 25 People

A few months ago, Surya Panditi was living in a nightmare, but today has reinvented himself as happily co-founder of not one, but two new consumer technology companies.

Earlier this year, he served as senior vice president and general manager, Cisco Service Provider Networking Group, responsible for some of the most advanced network drives company.
Someone had posted a website about him full of slanderous accusations about his personal and professional life. We do not repeat them, but we say involved his romantic relationships and work. They also included the name and photo of another innocent person.

Panditi had struggled to get this site removed for about two years, but was caught in the Catch-22 of these anonymous sites. WordPress and also wrote to Google and got no response.

Sites like WordPress sites generally do not remove controversial, without a court order, WordPress.com has confirmed to Business Insider, at the time. And the courts do not issue such orders until the anonymous person can be found, or has been completed at least a manhunt and try to find the person legally expensive.

So Panditi raised his hands, has hired a lawyer and launched manhunt. In the process he tried to unmask a Cisco complainant, known as Corporate Renegade, who became famous in the company for losses gossip blogger Brad Reese Cisco.

Panditi talked recently. He said that he never found the trolls anonymous, and the secret identity of Corporate Renegade remains intact. But he managed to get the site removed.
Moreover, after the Business Insider first told his story went viral and has received support surprise of others who have benefited from this mission effusion.

"I was contacted by a vice president of another large company in the valley who had a similar experience," he said. "The bigger story is when you can say anonymous things that are not true, not many people can do. In Europe, there are" right to be forgotten "laws. We have those."As part of its original mission to find the troll, Panditi found 24 similar sites full of similar allegations about other managers. These were the others who work in Cisco, as well as those employed by EMC, Ericsson, HP, Juniper, Microsoft, Oracle and Symantec.Since the beginning of his struggle, 24 of these sites have been removed, a search for them by Business Insider has shown.

If this was not a very happy ending, there's more. Earlier this month, Panditi publicly launched one of two new start-up consumer he has co-founded. (He left Cisco in October, when Cisco has led a massive reorganization that would hit 25,000 people).

In December, it was up and running with an application Fancify keyboard for the iPhone that allows you to embellish a text message with special fonts, color graphics. Although the first step is an application, Panditi says he hopes Fancify becomes s platform can do for texting what did the graphics for email.

He is also working on a second startup, still in stealth, in the travel industry. He's happy, he says. After spending most of his career selling computer equipment for companies like to know the consumer technology industry.

"I made a big change in my life, reproducing at a later stage in the race."
It feels great to beat a troll on the road.