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Vicki Batka

Vice President

APJC Partner Organization

Vicki Batka took on the role of Managing Director of the APJ Partner Organization in August 2016, leading a team that collaborates with more than 10,000 partners across the region.

Vicki joined Cisco in November 2015 to run the APJ Data Center business. During Vicki’s 30 year career in IT, she has spent 28 years focused on channels and has held senior positions in management, sales and marketing for SAP, VMware, CA Technologies, Adobe, Toshiba and Network Associates.

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To Give Back is Ingrained in Our Culture

As we celebrate International Women’s Day, it’s time to take stock of what we are most passionate about as professional women. For me, as the leader of Cisco’s Partner Organization in APJC (Asia, Pacific, Japan and China), I am most passionate about Partners and the unique ways they bring Cisco’s te…

May 8, 2019

PARTNER

Leading together, digitizing Asia

In March, we held PartnerXperience at CiscoLive! Melbourne, where we hosted more than 1,000 delegates from 18 countries across the region. These companies all had one thing in common; they’re Cisco partners. These partners, who make up our diverse partner ecosystem, wanted to learn about the innovat…

March 12, 2018

PARTNER

Enabling Our Partners’ Success in a Digital Age

At Cisco Live in Melbourne – an event in its 25th year – more than 7,000 customers and partners came together to learn more about the new technology innovation at Cisco. Amongst the 7,000 plus attendees were close to 1,000 partners from across Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) who congregated…

November 6, 2017

PARTNER

Owning It Together with our APJ Partners

Last week at Partner Summit, Cisco hosted a total of 1,090 companies from 85 countries who collectively account for $35.7 billion in bookings for us. And one thing all these companies have in common is that they’re a Cisco Partner. At Partner Summit these Partners, who make up our ecosystem, want to…

November 7, 2016

PARTNER

Moving Together. Every Time. Full Speed.

At Cisco’s Partner Summit last week in San Francisco, I was thrilled to host my first Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) regional session. It came a month after I celebrated 30 years in IT sales and channels, and 90 days into my new role as the leader of the APJ Partner Organization. As I said to the room…