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Vish Iyer

President

Service Provider APJ

Vish’s passion is engaging closely with customers, partners, and sales & services teams, and demonstrating how technology can solve all the new challenges and opportuities ahead. A leader in the ICT space, Vish leads Cisco’s APJ Service Provider (SP) business and their 360-relationship in the region.

Vish has deep experience in building carrier class infrastructure with top service providers in the region, coupled with his deep expertise in the enterprise space, puts him in the unique position to partner with SPs in monetizing their B2B space with profitable managed services offerings.

In Vish’s previous role, as the APJC leader for Architectures, he built a high-performance team that helped accelerate the software pivot in line with Cisco’s transformation from hardware to software to subscription across the portfolio.

He has scaled many teams and paved the way for sustainable multi-year growth in Cisco’s architectural business which has translated in driving sustainable recurring software business growth momentum for the region. They have also empowered clients to adopt next-gen infrastructure solutions and strengthened their relationship with Cisco.

In this age of partners, Vish actively collaborates with Tier 1 service providers, and distributors to create compelling joint offerings. These partnerships have significantly bolstered Cisco's market presence. Teams led by Vish have executed on transformation programs leveraging cloud, networking, infrastructure, and security in the largest and most demanding industries such as public services, manufacturing, construction, service provider, retail, banking & finance, food & beverages, and so on – all while delivering with quantifiable business outcomes. In line with Cisco’s overarching purpose, the team is driving an ‘inclusive future for all’ in Asia Pacific by being a partner of choice in the region’s digitization.

Vish aims to build a closer connect between university and industry to foster an innovation mindset among the student community in the region. He works with bodies such as ITU and institutions such as NUS and INSEAD School of Business in Singapore to help nurture young minds, inspire them to innovate, and to succeed as entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs.

He is directly involved in building Cisco India CSR programs including the ThingQubator platform, which is now India’s leading innovation program for universities and the Cisco Launchpad program. The latter started in India and has now been scaled globally to accelerate startups with disruptive technology ideas.

Vish is passionate about Cisco’s Networking Academy program, including GirlsInSTEM, which aims to equip the next generation and disadvantaged groups with job-worthy networking and cybersecurity skills; and also provides guidance for the programs at the Indian InsƟtute of Technology – Banaras Hindu University, Centre for Networked Intelligence at the Indian InsƟtute of Science (IISc), and NaƟonal University of Singapore, among others.

Vish holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University.

Articles

February 23, 2021

MANUFACTURING

Digitizing, visualizing, and protecting one of the world’s largest copper smelters

3 min read

Digital twins and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) are cutting-edge technologies that wow manufacturers of all sizes, in all sectors, geographies, and industries. At the core, there are two fundamental building blocks: ‘networking’ all operational technology (OT) assets and real-time…

January 26, 2021

CLOUD

Race past your technical debt with a microservices-powered infrastructure

5 min read

The goal of digital transformation in this era is to connect tangible and intangible digital systems. Unfortunately, that isn’t always efficient as not all systems are compatible, scalable, and agile. Leaders often refer to this as ‘technical debt’. From a coding specialist’s perspective, and…

December 14, 2020

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Are you playing your part in today’s platform-led digital economy?

4 min read

Twenty-twenty has accelerated digital transformation manifold and forced a paradigm shift in how businesses and individuals interact and transact. Everything is now digital, everything is now data-driven and intelligent, and by extension, everything is vulnerable if not secured. During Cisco’s…

October 27, 2020

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Why is cybersecurity a priority for organizations today?

4 min read

There’s no denying that the new normal has had a major impact on business. In many ways, it has changed or at least forced leaders to revisit the priorities on their digital agenda. Looking at the global economic landscape and market, two things are clear: one, employees will prefer not to return to the…

October 6, 2020

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Why do you need next-gen technology to show the mirror to your digital experiences?

4 min read

Today’s next normal has established new realities for businesses in every industry. Employees are working from home and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future, customers are discovering, researching, and buying products and services online, and as a result, there’s an increased reliance…

August 18, 2020

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Security in the next normal: Leaders need to think outside the (corporate) box

4 min read

A majority of staff is now working remotely, using personal devices, on unprotected networks, and often collaborating via unsecured tools. Obviously, this will result in a number of new or increased security threats, across the enterprise. However, the truth is that the distributed enterprise…

July 15, 2020

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

The next decade belongs to organizations that can adapt and react quickly in the new normal

4 min read

The pandemic took everyone by surprise – no business or leader had the foresight to prepare for it – and the global marketplace has shifted dramatically as a result. The question on the mind of every C-suite executive now is ‘how do I retool my business to build a resilient enterprise that can survive the…

June 29, 2020

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Today’s resilient digital enterprises must deliver seamless, secure experiences

4 min read

As businesses come out of the lockdown imposed by regulators to battle the global pandemic, leaders must start to rethink their organization’s digital agenda and priorities. In the ‘new normal’, employees will continue to work remotely, at least partially, and a greater chunk of the customer journey…

May 12, 2020

RETAIL

Understanding retail’s pressing digital needs in the age of the new normal

4 min read

As retail organizations battle lockdowns in different parts of the world due to the coronavirus, Forrester estimates that the industry will suffer a loss of US$2.1 trillion globally in 2020. In Asia Pacific alone, revenues are expected to fall by US$767 billion, a 10 percent decline over 2019 figures.…