Doug Webster Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Founding employee leading strategic marketing and communications engagement reporting directly to the CEO during funding phase for a new global on-demand hybrid terrestrial/subsea/satellite optical network.

Austin, Texas

• Held corporate-wide responsibility representing Cisco in a variety of public, media, governmental, regulatory, investor and industry forums and boards.
• Hosted political leaders, ministers, & senior governmental delegations, serving as primary executive ambassador
• Selected as spokesperson on telecommunications, business and internet-related issues, such as Artificial Intelligence, Smart Cities, Digitization, Connected Car and national broadband policies
• Led Country Digital… Show more Held corporate-wide responsibility representing Cisco in a variety of public, media, governmental, regulatory, investor and industry forums and boards.
• Led Country Digital Acceleration Team, Americas, which piloted connected solutions for various government and industry verticals, increasing company relevance in North, South and Central American countries
• Led engagements with ministers and regulators from United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, Japan, Nigeria and Russia Show less

Austin, Texas

• Led Company’s global solutions marketing efforts for SP Networking, Mobility, Virtualization and Video as well as thought leadership, messaging, field/partner/account-based/digital marketing for Company’s $12+B/year.
• Achieved recognition with team named 2015 Top Corporate Marketer of Year (firms $1B+) – B2B Magazine
• Implemented Thought Leadership Platform – Visual… Show more Led Company’s global solutions marketing efforts for SP Networking, Mobility, Virtualization and Video as well as thought leadership, messaging.
• Implemented Thought Leadership Platform – Visual Networking Index, accounting for up to 7% of Cisco’s Total Annual Impressions; Debuted new brand, account based & digital demand generation platforms for segment
• Provided expert testimony in US Senate and US House of Representatives committees and the Federal Communication Commission on technology issues; frequent company spokesperson, presenterAWARDS
• Chairman’s Award for Leadership given by Cisco Chairman John Chambers and now-CEO Chuck Robbins

Austin, Texas

• Led Go-To-Market aspects of marketing for Company’s $12 plus billion per year service provider line of business, encompassing the following teams, including Messaging/Positioning/AR-PR content, strategy, spokesperson.
• Selected SP Marketer of Year: LightReading
• Lectured at Kellogg School of Business on case study written about innovative campaign… Show more Led Go-To-Market aspects of marketing for Company’s $12 plus billion per year service provider line of business.
• Lectured at Kellogg School of Business on case study written about innovative campaign “Social Media and Web 2.0 in Business to Business Marketing,” IBSM and BMA national conferences
• Campaign selected as one of Top Ten in Past Decade by B2B Magazine
• Collaborated on Cisco Visual Networking Index, featured and regularly used in Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune, Forbes and global business and trade press, customers and regulators worldwide

Austin, Texas

Sr. Manager, Service Provider Marketing, Strategic Communications Sr. Manager, IP+Optical Marketing, Optical Networking Group Manager, Security Product Line Marketing, VPN & Security Business Unit Product Manager, Security Consulting Services

San Antonio, Texas

High Tech Startup specializing in Network Security with focus on Intrusion Detection Systems and White Hat Consulting. Obtained cover story in Fortune magazine for 35 person company. Acquired by Cisco Systems the following year.

• Two-time winner of Exceptional Human Intelligence Collector of the Year Award by the Director of Central Intelligence (one of profession’s top distinctions)
• Produced greatest number of intelligence reports and received highest number of “major significance” quality distinctions for reports in unit’s history