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Nick Michaelides

Senior Vice President

US Public Sector

Nick Michaelides is the Senior Vice President of the U.S. Public Sector Organization. He and his team are responsible for the development and deployment of technology solutions that enable the public sector to better protect our country, serve our communities, and educate our children. Nick’s deep understanding of his customers and their mission critical challenges have been the key to his success. He leads with a customer first mentality and his team consistently delivers results by ensuring that they build strong relationships and serve as a trusted advisor to their customers and partners. Prior to leading Cisco’s U.S. Public Sector business, Nick held several leadership roles within Cisco. Most recently he led U.S. Federal Sales at Cisco. Nick’s was responsible for the U.S. Federal market, including Defense, Civilian and National Security Operations. U.S. Federal is the second largest market in the Americas and one that Cisco has supported for over 25 years. Prior to Federal, he was Senior Director for Defense Operations, where he was responsible for delivering innovative solutions, products, and services to one of the largest employers in the world, the United States Department of Defense (DoD). Nick is a proven leader with 32 years of Federal and technology industry experience. He provides strategic vision and operational management to consistently achieve sales goals and develop his workforce. Nick led Cisco’s Transformational Leadership Initiative, and has a passion for mentorship. He completed Cisco’s Momentum Leadership Program that develops the next generation of Cisco executives. Nick holds an Active Top Secret SCI clearance. He enjoys spending time at the lake with his wife, Rita, and their three children.

Articles

March 3, 2020

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

The Future of the US Federal Government

Around the world, governments are dreaming about and deploying their visions of the future, and there are a lot of exciting and new things happening to take government to the next level. For example, we just announced the first FedRAMP Ready cloud-based SD-WAN solution to help government organi…

February 26, 2020

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GOVERNMENT

Cisco’s SD-WAN First to Achieve FedRAMP “In Process” Designation

Cisco announces the first FedRAMP In Process cloud-based SD-WAN solution to help U.S. government agencies and their critical infrastructure accelerate their IT modernization and cloud adoption journey. Why Software-Defined WAN? The Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) market is growing rapidl…

November 20, 2019

GOVERNMENT

Cisco’s Duo Security Achieves FedRAMP Authorization

This summer, U.S. CIO Suzanne Kent laid out the three pillars of the federal cloud computing strategy. Pillar number one: security. This tracks with what our government customers have been telling us for years: security is paramount. That’s why we’re pleased to announce that Cisco acquisition Duo Se…

November 8, 2019

GOVERNMENT

Military Friendly: How Cisco Serves Those who Served

Cisco is proud to be military friendly by connecting with, supporting, and hiring veterans. Our Veterans Program taps into our culture of service by providing training, mentoring, and support to transitioning service members, veterans, and military families. Cisco is proving amazing things can happe…

July 31, 2019

GOVERNMENT

Cloud ready networks for government: Connecting everyone and everything

By:  Nick Michaelides, SVP of U.S. Public Sector, Cisco Co-Author: Grimt Habtemariam, Federal Cloud Strategist, Cisco   We all understand the benefits of moving government to cloud. Especially the added value of better security for data and new capabilities that can support the large variety of…

June 4, 2019

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GOVERNMENT

Announcing Defense Collaboration Re-Imagined

Cisco’s Hosted Collaboration Solution for Defense (HCS-D) will impact the mission of Defense by providing the next evolution of collaboration. This will prepare the Department of Defense (DoD) for the long term by providing a secure and scalable collaboration platform to connect users across the Dep…

January 24, 2018

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GOVERNMENT

Cisco Cloudlock Certification Builds on Cisco’s FedRAMP-Approved Portfolio

Federal agencies have been under pressure to make progress and to comply with the “Cloud First” mandate since it went into effect in 2010. The initiative was created to push agencies to accelerate their adoption of cloud solutions to help improve employee productivity, increase collaboration, and dr…

July 11, 2017

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GOVERNMENT

Navigating a Time of Rapid Transition

The federal government is in a time of rapid transition. We have a new administration, new priorities, new opportunities, and new threats. Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and agencies are challenged to find innovative ways to leverage technology to support their missions, improve th…