Omar Tawakol

Tawakol has extensive experience in enterprise cloud and data management, gleaned through his current position as vice president and general manager of Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), as well as a previous role as senior vice president of Oracle’s (NYSE: ORCL) Data Cloud division.

Before its acquisition by Cisco in 2019, Tawakol founded and was CEO of Voicea, a company specializing in leveraging conversational artificial intelligence. He has deep roots in marketing and advertising technology, having founded and served as CEO of BlueKai, Inc., a leading data management platform for Fortune 100 marketers, which was acquired by Oracle in 2014. Prior roles include chief advertising officer and general manager of Medio Systems, Inc (acquired by Nokia); and CEO of CoRelation (acquired by Audience Science).

Tawakol currently serves on the advisory board of Decibel, a venture capital firm, and holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and master’s degrees in engineering and computer science from Stanford University.