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Rowan Trollope

Senior Vice President and General Manager

IoT and Collaboration Technology Group

Rowan Trollope is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Internet of Things (IoT) and Collaboration Technology Group. Trollope joined Cisco in 2012 to lead a dramatic leap forward in the way people connect and collaborate at work. Since then, he has reinvented Cisco’s collaboration business and made design, simplicity, and exponential improvement the guiding principles of product development. Most recently, Trollope was appointed to also lead Cisco’s IoT efforts as the company focuses on helping its customers and partners create value in a highly connected, digital world. In this role, he leads a worldwide organization responsible for technology solutions across IoT market segments, including manufacturing, industrial, transportation, public sector, and many others.

Under Trollope’s leadership, the Collaboration Technology Group has refreshed the entire collaboration technology portfolio, simplifying the product line and winning eight Red Dot awards for outstanding product design. To capitalize on mobile and cloud opportunities, Trollope also built a next-generation cloud platform and its first application, the business messaging service Cisco Spark. As a result, Collaboration has taken a huge step forward to lead Cisco’s large businesses in growth, at 14 percent in its most recent quarter.

Prior to joining Cisco, Trollope led Symantec’s sales, marketing, and product development teams as the Group President, responsible for its cloud security business and the SMB segment. He was responsible for growing the company’s software-as-a-service strategy and expanding cloud-based delivery and customer support models. Prior to that, Trollope led product development and marketing for the Norton consumer business and previously Symantec’s high-end Enterprise Security division.

Trollope holds a variety of patents in computer security and operating systems.

Rowan Trollope can also be followed on Cisco's The Network.

Articles

November 14, 2016

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

IoT That Hits Close to Home

I am incredibly excited about IoT in general. But IoT applied to cities—so called “Smart Cities”— is particularly exciting because it hits so very close to home. This is not about sensors in some faraway manufacturing facility. It is stuff that can profoundly affect the quality of the air you breath…

November 1, 2016

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COLLABORATION

Upping the Game in Collaboration

I have always enjoyed my work. It’s a big part of who I am. Right now I am having an unprecedented amount of fun leading the collaboration team at Cisco. We are completely reinventing how the world connects and communicates. We are right on the cusp of massive change that will be fueled by machine i…

October 3, 2016

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COLLABORATION

Don’t Let Cool New Features Distract from Massive Disruption

Last December at Collaboration Summit we showed how you can integrate desk phones with Cisco Spark. One of the features we demoed was the ability to register a desk phone using a mobile phone generated QR code. This is an incredibly useful and important feature–and a great for an on-stage demo…

September 28, 2016

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Inspired by Peyton’s Story

Four years ago when I came to Cisco, I had an “aha” moment about video. Cisco had created incredible technology that shrinks the distance between people, but it was bottled up in the boardroom; I wanted to get it in the hands of everyone. It was an exciting goal. It felt urgent and important. Then I…

September 13, 2016

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

iOS 10 Is Here…So What Does that Mean for the Enterprise?

At Cisco, we are on a mission to help our customer embrace digital transformation—deploying new capabilities to help them make money or save money in new ways. The network is the foundation for digital transformation, and mobility has never been a more important part of the customer and employee exp…

August 15, 2016

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COLLABORATION

Making Meetings Simple

Earlier this year when I told you our acquisition of Acano was complete I said fasten your seatbelts… I meant it! The newly combined team is on fire and today we’re announcing the availability of our first product to come of this incredible meeting of the minds. And it is pretty awesome. I have alwa…

July 12, 2016

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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

The IoT train is leaving the station. Don’t get left behind.

There’s been a lot of big talk about IoT for the past several years, and I admit, I’ve been skeptical. Thermostats. Toasters. Fitness trackers. So what? Why is this so transformative for Cisco’s customers? I wanted to understand this “transformation” more deeply. So, I read every report I could get…

June 13, 2016

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Apple and Cisco Fast-Tracking the Mobile Enterprise

I came to Cisco to create incredible technology experiences for millions of enterprise workers. That’s why I’m so thrilled to be the executive sponsor of our partnership with Apple; together, our two companies are capable of “incredible” on a pretty massive scale. Since our announcement in August, e…

May 26, 2016

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COLLABORATION

The Rise of the Virtual Assistant

On May 10, the world-class admin behind John Chambers’s success was honored with one of the top awards in her field: Debbie Gross received the Colleen Barrett Award for Administrative Excellence. Clearly, Debbie is a force. This CNBC story gives us a peek into her life keeping John at the top of his…