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Rick Snyder

Senior Vice President

Americas Partner Organization

Rick Snyder leads the Americas Partner Organization (APO), which is Cisco’s largest geographical region representing the United States, Canada, and Latin America. APO helps 23,000+ Cisco partners across the region expand their businesses with new business models, enter new markets, and create solutions that solve our customer’s challenges.

Previously, Snyder led Cisco’s Global and Strategic Partner Organization with responsibility for revenue acceleration and alliance management for Cisco’s global system integrators and technology partners. His organization built partnerships, joint go-to-market-plans, solutions and market-changing integrated infrastructures with these valued partners. He also led the expansion of Cisco’s partner ecosystem with the innovative global Independent Software Vendor initiative.

Prior to this, Snyder led the TelePresence Sales organization as Vice President of Global Business. Snyder joined Cisco with the acquisition of Tandberg, acting as the executive sponsor at Tandberg overseeing its integration with Cisco. While at TANDBERG, where he served as President of the Americas, and later as President of Global Business, Snyder helped to accelerate revenue growth from $320M to over $1B in a five year period. During that same period, TANDBERG emerged as the videoconferencing market leader with over 50% market share.

Snyder was CEO of ReView Video/Westcon, a distributor of conferencing solutions and services. He spent five years in the enterprise networking business at Williams Communications/NextiraOne, where he held executive positions. Prior to that, Snyder held sales leadership and general management positions at Executone, Octel, and Bell Atlantic/ATT.

Snyder also serves as the Chairman Emeritus of IMCCA, a non-profit association focused on the advancement of the collaboration industry, and is a board member of the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce. Snyder holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland.

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May 12, 2017

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Transforming the Mobile Workplace with Partners

Successful businesses capitalize on opportunity presented by change. More specifically, our most successful partners – and most profitable – capitalize on the new opportunities digital and mobile transformation create by offering solutions that deliver the best outcomes for our customers. It’s no se…

December 20, 2016

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Partnering to Drive Business Outcomes with Cisco Digital Solutions Integrators

The development of the digital landscape is accelerating at an unprecedented rate for Cisco, our ecosystem of partners, and our mutual customers. We’re seeing unprecedented opportunity as our customers – across all vertical markets – are going full speed to quickly becoming digital organ…

November 10, 2016

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Full Speed to Profitability: Keep the Momentum Going

Wow.  So that’s what a Full Speed Partner Summit feels like? Let me take a second to catch my breath and reflect on #CiscoPS16. As we heard from Chuck Robbins, we’re seeing unprecedented speed and opportunity in our industry with the digital era creating new opportunities for growth and the need for…

July 21, 2016

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Top 5 Takeaways from Cisco Live US 2016

Cisco Live US 2016 outdid itself this year. Just like our host city, Las Vegas, Cisco Live was action-packed and one of our best conferences yet. For 26 years, partners and mutual customers have gathered under one roof to experience and learn about Cisco’s newest innovations and solutions. This year…

May 16, 2016

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The Future is Digital, Transformation is Now

  There has never been a better time to change the world together. Now is the time to work together, leverage our partner ecosystem, and use the power of the Cisco brand to be better together in the digital future. What’s New? Our recent Brand Campaign Launch clearly reflects the importance of…

November 19, 2015

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Cisco ACI Awarded InfoWorld Editor’s Choice

Recently, InfoWorld, a top IT publication, recognized Cisco’s powerful SDN solution, ACI, with the Editor’s Choice award based on an impressive overall review score of 9.6 out of 10. We’ve long-believed ACI is a breakthrough capability that offers greater automation and visibility, performance and s…

May 14, 2013

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Accelerating Your Success with Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solutions

Earlier today, Cisco introduced an expanded portfolio of desktop virtualization solution architectures, based on Cisco UCS, that extend Cisco’s value proposition, solution breadth and market reach.  This is very important for our partner ecosystem, which continues to be the foundation for selling Ci…

February 26, 2013

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New Midmarket VDI Solutions For Cisco and VMware Partners

Cisco and VMware share a long track record of joint innovation and integrated solution development, providing differentiated capabilities and benefits for our partners and customers. Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is a great example of technology that raises the performance bar and dramaticall…

January 24, 2013

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Time Flies! Expanding our Decade-Long Partnership with NetApp

The old saying that “time flies by” couldn’t be any more true when I reflect on our decade-long partnership with NetApp. Over the past ten years new technology trends, changing consumption models, and fast-evolving customer needs have altered the IT industry landscape. But the Cisco-NetApp par…