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Patrick Morrissey is Senior Vice President of the Americas Service Provider organization, which encompasses major telco and mobile, cable and media, and web companies across the U.S., Canada and Latin America. Service Providers are at a critical crossroads where innovative services and network scale dictate the leaders within the highly competitive market. With a customer-centric approach, Patrick and his team enable customer transformation through major market disruption via tip-of-the-spear web scale networking, SP network transformation and enterprise digitization.
Patrick joined Cisco in 2000 with the acquisition of ArrowPoint Communications. Since then, he built the nascent Web & Media business, creating a new vision and strategy for Cisco during a time of significant technology and business model disruption. He established a new co-development engagement model that enabled Cisco to evolve its mass scale networking strategy and gain a seat at the table with some of the world’s most influential customers. Prior to his current role, Patrick was the Vice President of Sales and Operations in the Global Service Provider theater, responsible for Verizon. His team’s efforts shifted the customer dialogue from vendor to strategic partner and were recognized by Verizon as the standard engagement model for all its other suppliers
Patrick’s passion for inclusion and diversity as part of building and developing teams has led to leadership roles on several committees, including Cisco’s Americas Global Service Provider Inclusion and Diversity team. Patrick also serves as the executive sponsor for Cisco’s Early in Career Network, responsible for fostering the New England Community.
Patrick holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree with a double major in management and marketing from Nichols College. He also possesses dual citizenship with the United States and Ireland (EU).
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Cisco enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers. Cisco helps seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the unconnected. An integral part of their DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships, working together to identify their customers' needs and provide solutions that fuel their success. They have preserved this keen focus on solving business challenges since their founding. Len Bosack and wife Sandy Lerner, both working for Stanford University, wanted to email each other from their respective offices, but technological shortcomings did not allow such communication. A technology had to be invented to deal with disparate local area protocols, and as a result of solving their challenge, the multiprotocol router was born.