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Sandra Flinders

Senior Director

Global Partner Programs

As Senior Director of Programs for the Global Partner Organization, Sandra Flinders leads the partner programs and channel strategy and execution globally for Cisco. Sandra was the central architect and business leader of the Cisco Services Partner Program which extends Cisco’s value-based channel model and provides partners with access to new smart services to help drive their differentiation and strengthen customer relationships. With the merger of the product, software and services organizations, Sandra is now leading a combined global program team that will drive the evolution of Cisco’s Architectures, Software, Managed Services, Cloud, and traditional services with a focus on partner profitability and simplifying our partner’s business relationships with Cisco. Building industry leading programs and infrastructure taught Sandra important lessons about how to streamline and deliver an optimal partner experience worldwide.

As a sought after thought-leader in the industry, Sandra capitalizes on her more than 25 years of executive leadership experience in product and service channel strategy development, management and sales, and has a history for building and launching industry-envied partner programs. Prior to joining Cisco, she was the Director of Channel Service Sales at Avaya where she led the development and execution of their global services strategy and channel program design. While with Lucent Technologies, Sandra led their SMB Channel Sales team for products and services. Sandra has also held director-level positions with AT&T in sales, sales management and operations, and marketing. In 2016, Sandra was a recipient of both CRN Channel Chiefs and CRN Women in Channels.

Sandra holds a bachelor’s degree from Radford University and an MBA from the Mason School of Business at the College of William and Mary. She resides in Virginia with her husband and three beautiful German shepherds.

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April 6, 2018

PARTNER

Cisco’s Partner Programs Win 5-Star CRN Award for the 7th Year in a Row

For the seventh year in a row, our Cisco Channel Partner Program has been awarded a 5-Star ranking by CRN and will be listed in CRN’s 2018 Partner Program Guide. In addition, our Cloud and Managed Services Program has earned this prestigious 5-Star ranking for the second year running, and our Soluti…

April 10, 2017

PARTNER

Cisco’s Partner Programs Win 5-Star CRN Awards Six Years Running

I am so pleased to share the news that for the sixth year in a row, our Cisco Channel Partner Program has been awarded a 5-Star ranking by CRN and will be listed in CRN’s 2017 Partner Program Guide. In addition, this year our Cloud and Managed Services Program also earned this prestigious 5-Star ran…

May 10, 2016

PARTNER

Grow Your Business By Growing With Your Customers. Here’s How.

Throughout history, we’ve used labels to describe the attitude and characteristics of certain time periods in our past such as The Dark Ages, The Age of Discovery, and The Space Age to name a few. During the last 30 years of the Information Age, Cisco has been committed to changing the way the world…