Alexey al Palladin

About Alexey al Palladin

Alexey is a business and technology developer, leader of diverse teams. Currently heads the global Brand Protection squad at Cisco. Alexey worked in senior positions incl. CEO, VP, GM, Board member. He drove explosive growth at Intel, where at age 24 he became a General Manager and later won the top corporate award. At Microsoft he was responsible for all business in 12 countries; led a team that developed product features, which shipped in billions of copies and helped the company protect hundreds of millions of dollars\' worth of sales; introduced a new approach to license compliance (SAM) & partner program competency, which drove more than $4B annually. Alexey also founded and grew a number of start-up businesses (media, virtual reality, alternative energy). Specialties: converting emerging opportunities and technologies into solid businesses (assessment, strategy, rapid execution = results). Attracting diverse talent and creating high performance teams. Alexey has done business in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Canada, China, France, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, UAE, UK, Ukraine, US, Uzbekistan.

Experience

1. Chief, Global Brand Protection

   Cisco

   May 2017 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Present: honored to be working with an outstanding squad of crime-fighters, revenue and margin guardians, and preventers of malicious activity, protecting the interests of Cisco, and those of legitimate Channel Partners and Customers. The organization is geographically diverse by design, spread among many countries on four continents. It is comprised of investigative teams aligned to Cisco’s sales regions (the Americas, EMEAR and APJC) that support sales and channels + engineering team responsible for developing and implementing anti-counterfeiting technology and fielding authenticity requests from around the world + business controls and data intelligence team that proactively monitors platforms for threats and trends + digital fraud and loss prevention = protecting Cisco\'s IP in hardware and software. Past: led a team that evolved Cisco\'s strategic approach to Entitlement (the granting, transfer and activation of Use Rights), developing new opportunities through IT Asset Management and License Compliance. Conducted deep structural analysis of the present state, brought in industry best practices, created business models/key vectors, delivered ELT level end-to-end strategy documents and detailed plans of action, positioned Cisco as a thought leader for the evolution of the global industry standard (ISO 19770). Received FY18 Innovate Everywhere award:\"Steadfast Leadership of ITAM Strategy. In recognition of your innovative spirit, perseverance, and collaborative style leading the ITAM team to new heights. We thank you for your leadership.\"

Education

• Wharton Executive Education

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, International Business/Trade/Commerce

  1995 — 1997