Irfan Ali

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ABOUT IRFAN ALI

As the senior director, global collaboration sales strategy and operations at Cisco, Irfan builds and drives sales execution across the collaboration community. In his previous role as senior director customer experience, he led his team to create a blueprint for customer success roles and defined the function of those roles in the context of Cisco’s sales, services, and support teams. Earlier experiences included digital transformation thought leadership, CTO, industry architectures, solutions and customer co-innovation, global IoT sales, and systems engineering.Naturally curious and always pushing the boundaries of innovation and creative approach, Irfan has the personality and leadership style built for technology exploration, massive business scaling, and achieving huge stretch goals, as demonstrated by his contributions throughout his tenure at Cisco developing solutions for Fortune 100 customers worldwide.Responding to every opportunity placed before him, Irfan often leading his teams into unchartered territory to help Cisco remain at the forefront of innovation, digitalization, global expansion, strategic alliances, and the customer experience.Recognized with numerous awards and selected for critical leadership development opportunities, Irfan has quickly advanced through the ranks at Cisco and has impacted each technology sector. Driven by passion for his work and conquering the next challenge, he leads and develops his team with the same drive and commitment he shows for the business. Highlights of his dynamic tenure at Cisco include building of its IoT GTM strategy from the ground up, leading the IoT sales in global service provider sale team, and creating an industry capability framework, leveraged as a comprehensive way to help customers identify their capability gaps while translating sales opportunities into available product and service offerings.Global leadership roles have taken him to live on three continents and speak four languages.A dedicated community leader, Irfan is chairman of the board of advisors for Community Medicine Inc. in Paramount, Ca and served for multiple years as advisory board member for Edfiles.com. Past board service includes in an advisory capacity for IT/Web 2.0 at Pepperdine University and the Aga Khan Foundation.