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With more than 30 years of sales management and leadership experience, I have run top-performing sales teams across the Americas as well as Globally. I currently lead Strategy, Alliances and GTM for AI for Ahead. Previously I led GTM Globally for Palo Alto Networks Prisma SDWAN/SASE offering, as SVP of SDWAN/SASE GTM. I was responsible for scaling SDWAN/SASE business across direct sales GTM, as well as MSP and Channel routes to market. Prior to this, I was a Global Technical Specialist Sales leader at VMware, leading a high performing Organization of 700+ Technical Sales and Engineers focused on VMware NSX, NSX Security, AVI and Velocloud SDWAN/SASE. My Team was responsible for helping customers execute a network centric security approach across multi-cloud environments, delivering on the promise of consistent infrastructure and operations. Prior to VMware, I led the Architectures Sales team at Cisco Systems where I was responsible for driving $21B in annual product sales across collaboration, data center, enterprise networking, mass scale infrastructure, security, and software. Leading a team of 1,200 technology specialists, I was instrumental in transforming the Go-to-Market approach for the team in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Before my 17 plus years with Cisco Systems, I also worked at SBC and Anixter.I earned a bachelor’s degree at Bowling Green State University and currently reside in Holland, MI. In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with family, hiking, mountain biking, boating, golf, and yoga.

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