The corporate strategy team is instrumental in crafting Cisco's overall strategy and vision. As a Director on the team, I collaborate with executive leadership and senior stakeholders throughout the company on formulating long-term strategic priorities and plans around driving profitable growth, addressing emerging industry trends, and evaluating competitive dynamics.

Focus areas: AI Infrastructure, Optics, AI networking, Cloud & Hyperscaler strategy, End-End IoT growth areas, Silicon, As-a-service offers/Business model transformation

• Development and Marketing committee

• Steering committee member for formulating 3-year strategic plan for the organization

Product Strategy | Segment Marketing and Growth | Global team leadership & Cross-functional collaboration

• Leading a team of 8 regional marketeers and business development managers (Americas, Europe & Middle-East, Asia-pacific, Greater China, Korea, Japan) to manage and grow business for identified segments through close customer collaboration, partnerships and GTM strategy execution (>$x00M business).

• Influence product roadmaps and drive collaboration between product line management and sales organization with a deep customer focus.

• Drive regional and global business reviews and regular reporting to key stakeholders and business leaders on KPI dashboards and strategy execution.

Regional Marketing | Channel Partnerships | Growth Strategy

• Owned sales funnel and revenue growth targets as Business Unit Liaison to sales organization for North & South America. Grew region’s overall funnel by over 50%. Collaborated with 6+ diverse product lines including product managers, systems engineering, marketing communications, sales enablement and sales managers.

• Created and implemented Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies for 10+ new products targeting Tier-1 customers as well as SMBs across Mobile, Automotive, IoT, Computing, Networking, Consumer segments.

• Channel partners management and collaboration through shared growth strategy creation, KPI setting and measurement, Quarterly business reviews (QBRs).