Todd Meister

As Vice President of the US Partner Organization at Cisco, Meister is responsible for achieving profitable sales growth for Cisco and its partners, by leveraging the power of the Cisco Partner Ecosystem. Prior to this role, Meister led the Software and Solutions Innovation team, where he enabled the business of tomorrow though Cisco’s ecosystem of partnerships, and in FY16 influenced over $1.2B in revenue.

Meister joined Cisco through the acquisition of TANDBERG, where he served as the Vice President of Channels for the US and Canada. Before joining TANDBERG, Meister held several executive positions, including Vice President of Global Channel Strategy and North America Channel Sales at Avaya and President of AE Business Solutions. He’s held leadership positions at EMC, StorageTek, Breece Hill Technologies and founded GRN Madison.

Amongst his various philanthropic contributions, Meister has awarded numerous grants to support the education and empowerment of single mothers, children and families throughout his community. He has received numerous industry awards, including Everything Channel’s CRN 2010 Channel Chief award, the VARBusiness Magazine “Top 100 Channel Executives” award in 2004 and “Top 75 Channel Executives” award in 2005.