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Cisco appoints Marc Benioff, Kristina Johnson as directors


    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc said on Thursday it had given board seats to Marc Benioff, head of salesforce.com , and Kristina Johnson, former U.S. under secretary of energy.

    Cisco said the appointments were effective August 1. Its board now consists of 14 directors.

    Benioff, 47, co-founded web-based software provider salesforce.com in 1999. Johnson, 55, currently serves as chief executive of Enduring Hydro LLC, a clean energy development and consulting company.

    (Reporting By Sinead Carew)