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Luke Power

Director, Partner Organisation & Small Business

Cisco Australia & New Zealand

Luke is an experienced senior Sales Leader with a career spanning over 20 years in the field and a strong history of driving high-performance in a competitive sales environment. Luke’s value contribution comes from his dedication and inspiring leadership, and ability to deliver business priorities by harnessing a winning team. He has worked for companies such as Intel Security, Avaya, Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems, Acer and Silicon Computers. Luke’s experience lies is in channel, inside sales and direct sales, and he is an expert in delivering technical business solutions to drive outcomes for customers. He has strong business acumen, a track record of achieving operational effectiveness and is a key strategy driver. In his current role as Director of Partner Organisation & Small Business at Cisco Australia & New Zealand, Luke leads a multifunctional team to deliver sales and business outcomes for both Cisco and its Partners.

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November 25, 2020

SMB

The race to digitise is on. Is your business ready?

Across Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific, small and medium size businesses (SMBs) have been looking at the uncertainties of 2020 as an opportunity to work on becoming more tech savvy. Research from Cisco and IDC tells us that 69% of SMBs surveyed across Asia Pacific are accelerating digitisation…

November 25, 2020

SMB

What is SD-WAN and why should your business care about it?

“SD-what?” I hear you say… let me explain! Over the last 10 to 20 years, small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) with multiple sites and branches have had pretty limited choices for good connectivity and bandwidth. This meant having to pay for what often amounted to expensive, low quality bandwidth,…

November 25, 2020

SMB

How businesses can adapt, pivot and become stronger

From an economic viewpoint, COVID-19 has played out in quite different ways. Some industries have been hit hard, while others have either seemed to pivot well, or even thrive during the pandemic. But one thing is clear from my discussions with small and medium businesses (SMBs) in Australia. Those…

October 30, 2020

PARTNERS/CHANNEL

Cisco 2020 Partner Summit Award Winners: Celebrating ANZ Partners

One of the highlights of Partner Summit is seeing the top-performing partners and their achievements recognised globally and across the region. This year during Partner Summit Digital, a number of partners from Australia and New Zealand were recognised for their innovation, all while constantly…