John Earnhardt is Senior Manager of Global Media Operations for Cisco Systems in the Public Relations Department. He manages the PR team's media operations strategy, corporate op-ed program, broadcast media strategy, executive media training and is the "blogger-in-chief" for the company.

Previously, he managed policy communications in Cisco's Global Policy and Government Affairs department where he was responsible for using communications channels to advance Cisco’s state, federal and global public policy objectives. He also handled media relations on public policy issues in addition to managing Cisco’s political action committee. He joined Cisco in 1999 as Corporate Public Relations Manager in the Office of the President.

Prior to Cisco he was the Director of Media Relations for the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, DC. Earnhardt previously worked for Senator Joseph R. Biden, the Senate Judiciary Committee and for the Presidential Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission. In 1996, he worked for Vice President Al Gore doing press advance on the Clinton/Gore Presidential campaign.

John is married, has an infant son and lives in Menlo Park, CA. He graduated from Wake Forest University with a BA in English and Philosophy.

Based at Cisco HQ in San Jose, California, David oversees customer, partner and brand PR, three functions which together reflect how Cisco 'goes to market'. He balances his North American PR responsibilities with oversight of Cisco's global PR operations, a team devoted to the globalization of communications strategy at Cisco.

Prior to joining Cisco in 2008, David spent ten years with global public relations agency Text 100 in Europe and the US, where he oversaw sales and marketing, and served as a media relations and strategic communications consultant to companies including Cadence Design Systems, Cisco, IBM, Philips, Novell, NTT and Xerox.

David started his communications career in the UK where he spent three years with engineering marketing consultancy, Taylor Alden, and three years with the Gillette Company. He is married and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2001. Originally from the Netherlands, David graduated from Brunel University in London with a BA in Mathematics and Management Studies.

Scott Brown is the marketing strategist for the recently launched Cisco Media Solutions Group. While his film accreditations extend no further than a seat at his local theater or his couch, Scott has been monitoring the digitization of entertainment since using his Apple Quadra in the mid-‘90s to digitize and edit a video for his college thesis – a project that received little accolade and was mercifully lost in the great hard drive crash of 1995. For the next week, Scott will be a guest commentator from the Cannes Film Festival in France.