Senior Vice President, Cisco Services
As Senior Vice President for Enterprise Advanced Services, Parvesh drives Cisco’s global professional services strategy, competencies, and portfolio for enterprise customers and vertical markets. His worldwide team of highly-experienced subject matter experts, architects and consultants help customers achieve business goals and operational efficiencies through architectural solutions, delivery excellence, and smart solutions.
Sethi joined Cisco Services in 2000 and pioneered the technology practices model, launching consultative practices around Cisco advanced technologies. He was instrumental in driving the Services globalization strategy by integrating collaborative technologies into delivery, and launching new, innovative delivery centers. His organization helps Cisco offer integrated solutions for cloud infrastructures and the unified datacenter, in collaboration and video, Borderless Networks and security, and on “Work Your Way” smart solutions such as BYOD and VXI.
Sethi is the Services Executive Sponsor for Inclusion and Diversity, co-chairs the Cisco Enterprise Services Forum, and he sits on the Cisco Enterprise Business Council.
Prior to Cisco, Sethi spent 12 years with Ericsson, where he was Vice President of Ericsson's Professional Services and Consulting in the U.S., and held several other leadership positions focused primarily on service providers.