Sameer Padhye, Vice President, Worldwide Service Provider Line of Business, is responsible for driving services and support business and strategy across worldwide Service Provider market for Cisco Systems Inc.

In his previous role, Sameer worked as Vice President of Service Provider Marketing, and was responsible for marketing Cisco Systems® products, services, and solutions to a worldwide base of service provider customers.  In addition, he was the company’s primary spokesperson for the service provider market when addressing Cisco’s customers, members of the press, industry analysts, and investors.

Sameer joined Cisco in 1993 and has developed a broad base of cross-functional, cross-geography experience during his tenure. He has held many key positions as customer engineer, critical account manager, business development manager for Japan, director of field operations for the greater Asia region, Director of Solutions Engineering for Asia Pac region, Vice President of Service Provider Line of Business and Optical Sales in the Cisco Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. As a recipient of the expert-level Cisco CCIE® certification, he brings in-depth knowledge of networking technology to his role.

Sameer completed higher studies in chemical engineering from the University Of Bombay, India, and moved to Japan for further studies. He worked in the automobile and telecommunications industries in Japan before moving to the United States to begin his career in networking.

Sameer is fluent in Hindi, English, and Japanese, and holds a Commercial pilot’s license with certification to fly commercial High Performance Jet and Turbine engine aircraft.  He lives in Cupertino, California with his wife and two children.

Presentation
The Network as a Platform
Web 2.0, SOA, SOI, TOGAF - these are all architectures that promise to reduce complexity and increase efficiency in a company. Yet the new infrastructure to support these services can actually outweigh all the achieved benefits.

Learn how companies can leverage the network as a platform that can be utilized to manage these infrastructure costs and allow the deployment of these service architectures.

Discover how network services such as security, identity, unified communication, virtualization and security services actually create real efficiencies in the deployment of these services and lead to the ultimate goal of increase employee efficiency with these new tools.

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