Blair Christie is Vice President, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations for Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) the worldwide leader in that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Christie leads the first centralized Corporate Communications organization at Cisco, which includes global investor relations, public and media relations, industry analyst relations, employee and executive communications, as well as Cisco’s global studio and Web 2.0/Intranet Strategy teams.

In 2005, Treasury Risk and Management recognized Christie as “The Top 40 Under 40” US financial executives to watch. Additionally, under Christie’s leadership, Institutional Investor has recognized Cisco as having the #1 IR team in the communications equipment industry for five years in a row, while Investor Relations magazine and Barron’s awarded Cisco’s IR team with 2004’s “Best Overall Investor Relations Program” and 2007”s “Best Investor Relations by a CEO” and “Best Senior Management Communications”, with numerous honorable mentions over the years in the categories of Best IR Team, Corporate Governance and Financial Disclosure. In previous years, the same publications recognized Christie as “Best Investor Relations Officer”.

Prior to joining Cisco Systems, Christie was responsible for investor relations at InterDigital Communications Corporation, where she developed and managed investor relations, as well as contributed to the company’s business development efforts. Before InterDigital, Christie managed investor relations for Aqua America, where her responsibilities also included government/public affairs and corporate giving efforts.

Christie sits on Cisco’s Gender Diversity Council and Corporate Citizenship Council. She is a Board member of the National Investor Relations Institute and a member of the NASDAQ Issuers Affairs Committee.

Christie is a graduate of Drexel University, in Philadelphia, PA, where she received both an MBA, concentrating in Investment Management, and a BS in business administration.

Christie is married, with two daughters. Her family resides in San Jose, CA.

Skip joined Cisco in October 2005 to head up its global Industry Analyst Relations program. He and his team are responsible for working closely with the industry analyst community to establish two-way communications over the company’s corporate, product, market and technology strategies.

Before joining Cisco, Skip was the Vice President of Strategic Communications for Marconi Corp. plc, and his responsibilities included media relations for trade/industry press, industry analyst and consultant relations as well as the company’s thought leadership program. While at Marconi, Skip had also managed the Industry Intelligence & Influence, Marketing Services & Operations, and Inbound Marketing functions.

Before Marconi, Skip was the Vice President of Marketing for SilverBack Technologies, a pioneer Management Service Provider, where he managed all areas of marketing, including corporate communications, advertising, branding, product marketing and channel partners’ programs.

Prior to SilverBack, Skip was the corporate director of Bay Networks/Nortel Networks’ analyst relations department where he and his worldwide team were recognized as having one of the top analyst programs in the industry. Previous to Nortel, Skip spent four years at Gartner Group as a research analyst, covering enterprise physical infrastructure, network design and architecture issues as well as providing guidance to a worldwide customer base of Fortune 500 end-user organizations and leading networking vendors.

Skip has also served as a guest columnist in leading trade magazines and presented internationally at numerous trade show and end-user events on a number of topics. He began his career in the networking industry as the senior editor of local-area network products and technologies for Network World, one of the industry’s leading trade newspaper.

Skip earned his bachelor of arts degree at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. He currently lives in California with his wife and two children.