Wendy Bahr — Senior Vice President of Global Partner Organization at Cisco

Ms. Wendy Bahr serves as Senior Vice President of Global Partner Organization at Cisco Systems, Inc. Ms. Bahr is responsible for managing and supporting 60,000+ global partners who represent the company's primary route to market. Encompassing system integrators, value-added resellers, distributors, services partners, independent software vendors, and technology partners, this global connected partner ecosystem accounts for more than 80 percent of Cisco's revenue and is a unique differentiator in helping deliver business outcomes for customers and promoting growth. She served as Senior Vice President of Global & Transformational Partnership at Cisco Systems, Inc. since August 1, 2010 and served as its Global Channel Chief and Senior Vice President of Americas Partner Organization. She served as Head of US and Canada Partner organization of Cisco Systems, Inc. until August 1, 2010. Ms. Bahr served as Senior Vice President of US and Canada Channels for Cisco Systems, Inc. and was responsible for strategies related to marketing, partner enablement, partner profitability, and promoting product and services growth for over 12,000 partners. Ms. Bahr has spent more than 20 years in sales and technology. She held key leadership roles throughout her eight years at Cisco, including Vice President of U.S. Commercial and Field Channels, Operations Director of Federal Civilian Agencies and Operations Director of Network Service Providers. Ms. Bahr served as Vice President of US & Canada Channels - Cisco Division for Cablexpress Corporation. Prior to joining Cisco, she was with Verizon for more than 10 years where she served as Director of Enterprise Sales. Ms. Bahr is a member of the Women's Action Network at Cisco and a former member of the Gender Diversity Operations Committee. She is a coach and mentor for Cisco's Women Unlimited program, while also personally mentoring over a dozen Cisco employees. Her passion for diversity underlies her participation in Cisco's Women's Perspective Sessions, Senior Leadership Diversity Panels, and the Women's Channel Leadership Forum. She was named one of the Top 50 Women in the Channel by VARBusiness in 2007 and 2008. Ms. Bahr holds bachelor of business administration degree in communications from the Old Dominion University.