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Andres Sintes

Global Senior Director, Partner GTM

Global Partner Organization (GPO) - Digital Transformation & IoT

As Senior Executive of Cisco's Global Partner Organization, Andres Sintes is responsible for our Partner Sales & GTM Strategy across all Industry verticals, inclusive of the Partners’ capability and profitability growth in support of capturing the opportunity in our customers’ Digital Transformation. Andres is chartered with accelerating the success of Cisco's Business Outcome Solutions in support of our Customers’ Digitization Journey via a best-in-class network of Channel & ecosystem Partners globally.

Most recently Andres led the evolution of our IT Channel to support the accelerated growth of our IoT opportunity growing our Channel capacity to over 200 IoT Specialized Channel Partners globally in less than 12 months; as well as the build-out of a new OT Channel of +50 OT Channel Partners that are now actively engaged, invested and complementing Cisco’s ability to penetrate new Industries and LOBs.

In 2013, “Networking Products Guide” magazine recognized Andres as Partner Programs Channel Executive of the year.

Andres’ career at Cisco began in 1998 as an Account Manager driving sales growth for Cisco Mexico’s Midmarket segment. Later as Senior Manager for Americas International, Andres’ charter expanded to accelerating market penetration in the Midmarket segments throughout Latin America and Canada. Andres established a highly scalable and collaborative partner-led sales model inclusive of Virtual Sales, Field Sales, our Partner Ecosystem, and Marketing.

In 2005 Andres embarked on a 3 year Expatriate assignment in Singapore as Sales Director for Asia Pacific & Japan responsible for establishing a growth engine to capture new market share across the Commercial segment throughout the region. In less than 3 years, he successfully built and led a new sales team of 200+ sales account managers with net new incremental revenue growth well over US$500 million.

Upon returning to the US, Andres assumed global leadership of Cisco’s Learning Partner Channel (training focused partners). He successfully evolved and transformed the capability and strategic relevancy of Cisco's Learning Partners while establishing them as key drivers to scale sales & technical enablement in support of accelerating the success of Cisco’s Architectures & Solutions.

Andres holds a Bachelor in Business Administration with a Major in Marketing and a Minor in Economics from the University of Florida. He lives in Miami, Florida with his wife Laura and his 3 children Nicolas, Daniel, and Victoria. During his leisure time Andres enjoys boating and water-sports while spending quality time with his wife and kids.

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October 17, 2022

PARTNER

Helping partners build new capabilities to meet customer needs for business outcomes

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Cisco is investing in partner transformation, helping partners build new capabilities to meet customer needs for business outcomes. The Q2 Schedule for Cisco’s Partner Success Training Series is Now Live!

June 13, 2022

PARTNER

Partners: What You Need to Know for Cisco Live

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With Cisco Live 2022 beginning in earnest today, here’s everything you need to know as a Cisco Partner for this week’s full slate of keynotes, sessions, meetups, and more.

January 13, 2022

PARTNER

Ignite your Sales and Accelerate Business Outcomes with Ready-to-Sell Solutions

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We are offering ready-to-sell strategies for selling Cisco solutions, providing partners actionable steps to achieve transformational outcomes. Join one of our webinars!

October 13, 2021

PARTNER

6 Things Partners Can Do Now to Prepare for 5G Tomorrow

3 min read

Today, 5G is largely focused on consumer applications, but over the next few years it’s expected to become much more prevalent by enabling enterprise- and IOT-driven use cases. Here are six actions that you and your company can start working on today to be well positioned to deliver 5G-enabled outcomes.

August 31, 2021

PARTNER

Leveraging Technology to Power the Hybrid Workplace

2 min read

A new model has emerged to facilitate the back to work surge: the hybrid workplace. Cisco’s best-of-breed hybrid workforce solution offers five key benefits to address the unique requirements of each company's unique workforce.

February 11, 2021

PARTNER

Accelerating Digital Transformation with Cisco CX in 2021

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Cisco has developed several Sales Plays to significantly enhance your ability to meet your customers’ digital business outcome needs, especially when you leverage the Cisco Customer Experience (CX) offers aligned with them.

January 8, 2020

PARTNER

Expand Your Edge in 2020: Partner Connection Week

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As we enter a new year, there is always a sense of excitement about the possibilities ahead.  Together, let's look back on progress from the previous year and turn our focus forward to 2020.

October 31, 2019

PARTNER

Cisco IoT Design-In: Tailor Made for Industrial Ecosystem Partners

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When it comes to partner programs, one size does not fit all!  Cisco IoT Design-In is a new program that supports the growing demand from Cisco’s IT partners to build capabilities and provide IoT solutions to IT buyers.

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