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Oliver Tuszik

Senior Vice President

Global Partner Organization

Oliver Tuszik is the Senior Vice President of Cisco's Global Partner Organization. He has responsibility for managing and supporting 60,000+ global partners who represent the company's primary route to market. Cisco’s Global Partner Organization encompasses value-added resellers, distributors, system integrators, independent software vendors and technology partners. This globally connected ecosystem accounts for more than 80 percent of Cisco's revenue and is a unique differentiator in helping deliver business outcomes for customers.

Tuszik and his leadership team are responsible for developing strategic initiatives and program innovations across Cisco’s entire portfolio to help partners deliver world class solutions and services to our customers. With complementary technologies from Cisco and its partners, they are focused on profitable growth and capacity for Cisco and its partners. Tuszik and his team will continue simplifying and enhancing the tools, processes, programs and offers that help partners be successful now and in the future.

Tuszik previously led Cisco’s sales in Germany where he was the Country Leader. He and his team drove five years of successive growth, achieved double digit growth twice, and earned the honor of Theater of the Year for the past two years. Under his leadership, Cisco Germany became a worldwide role model for Cisco’s Country Digitization Acceleration activities.

Prior to joining Cisco in 2013, Tuszik was the CEO of Computacenter in Germany, one of Cisco’s largest partners. He led the consulting business, managed partner strategy and spent two years running Computacenter’s networking & security business. Tuszik also spent many years in international leadership roles for GE Capital IT Solutions.

Tuszik is a long term board member of BITKOM (the German association for IT, telecommunications and new media) and has been active in different initiatives with the German government on a state and federal level. With an interest in digitization’s potential benefits on the world, he is a frequent speaker at conferences and senior executive events.

Tuszik holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. He and his wife have three children and will be relocating from Germany to San Jose, CA.

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November 14, 2018

PARTNER

Cisco Applauds its Global Award Winners at Partner Summit 2018

At Cisco, we’re fully committed to our partners’ success. That’s why we feel it’s important to recognize our top-performing partners for their outstanding achievements. Last evening during a Global Awards Reception held at Cisco Partner Summit, I had the privilege of honoring our top global partners…

November 7, 2018

PARTNER

It’s our time to Lead Together – Join me for Cisco Partner Summit

For some of you, this may be the first time you’re hearing from me in my new role as the head of Cisco’s Global Partner Organization. I’m proud to be here and work alongside you – our esteemed Partner community. Each day I’m inspired and energized by the amazing stories of innovation and custo…