Rod Scotland, National Architectures Strategy Manager, Mid-Market Solutions
As the National Architectures Strategy Manager of Mid-Market Solutions for Cisco Canada, Rod Scotland is responsible for leading the technology alignment and national technology strategies for Canadian midmarket and small and medium-sized business solutions.
Bill MacGowan, Vertical Solutions Architect, Connected Real Estate
As Vertical Solutions Architect for Cisco Smart+Connected Real Estate and Smart+Connected Communities in Canada, Bill MacGowan has considerable knowledge in the areas of converged building systems, enterprise integration, and the delivery of high-performance business value.
Geoff King, Senior Advisor, Financial Services Industry
Geoff King is Cisco Canada's Senior Advisor and Business Transformation Solutions lead for the financial services industry. In this role, he works with senior business leaders to identify key business imperatives and to develop initiatives that produce business value through Cisco's expertise, products, services, and partners.
As Vice President, Architectures, Greg Turner is responsible for leading Cisco's data centre, collaboration, and unified communications architectures in Canada. He is responsible for Cisco's architectures portfolio, delivering incremental business value to our customers and partners. Turner works closely with Cisco Canada's architectural managers, sales, partner, and service teams to create and execute go-to-market strategies, sales, business development, and marketing programs.
Ian Gallagher is the general manager, collaboration for Cisco Canada. He leads a national team of collaboration product specialists responsible for working with Cisco partners and customers to create and execute business-impacting collaboration strategy and architecture.
Jacques Lapointe, Senior Manager, Systems Engineering
Jacques Lapointe is a Senior Manager of Systems Engineering, responsible for promoting the adoption of Cisco
technology in Quebec and the Maritime provinces.
A veteran of the Canadian telecommunications industry, Lapointe has 20 years of experience in various management and sales roles.
Luc Deschênes is Vice-President, Commercial Sector, Eastern Canada, in charge of sales, marketing, finance, and support for small and mid-sized businesses, enterprises, service providers, and business partners in Quebec.
Deschênes has been with Cisco since 1999. Prior to this position he was Enterprise Major Account Manager for Eastern Canada.
As Regional Vice President, CTEP (Cable, Telco, Emerging Providers) at Cisco Canada, Robert Glenny is responsible for the development and execution of sales strategies, contract negotiations, product / market segmentation, resource investments and product / service innovations for Cisco Canada's largest service provider sales region.
Rick Otway, Vice President, Central Canada Operations
As Vice President, Central Canada Operations, Rick Otway is responsible for Cisco's operations in the province of Ontario. His role is to work with both the public and private sectors to enhance Ontario's ability to compete globally and improve citizen services.
Ron Gordon, Senior Advisor, Smart+Connected Real Estate
Ron Gordon is Cisco Canada's Senior Advisor for Smart+Connected Real Estate (S+CRE), responsible for advancing the utilization of IT infrastructure in building systems and Cisco's S+CRE philosophy in Canada.
Gordon has over 30 years' experience in the information technology industry that has included roles in solution sales, sales management, product management, and business development. He joined Cisco in 2007 and has worked on several S+CRE projects including the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, PwC Tower in Toronto, and George Brown College Waterfront Campus. Prior to Cisco, he served as a product manager at Avaya and held positions at Bell Canada and TTS Meridian Systems.
Rebecca Leach, Director, Partner Led Programs and National Direct Integrator Partners
As Director, Partner Led Programs and National Direct Integrators at Cisco Canada, Rebecca Leach is responsible for developing the Partner Led program and sales strategy for Canada, enabling partners with the programs and sales tools necessary to lead in customer engagements. She oversees a team that manages all partner incentive, growth and profitability programs.
Shanti Gidwani, National Senior Director, Healthcare
Shanti Gidwani is the National Senior Director of Healthcare at Cisco Canada, responsible for the transformation of how healthcare is delivered across Canada and improving patient outcomes and experiences through technology.
Gidwani joined Cisco in 2012 and has extensive experience in healthcare. Prior to Cisco, she was a healthcare consultant for the World Health Organization (European Region and International) before beginning her own healthcare consulting company in Canada.
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