Alan S. Cohen is the Vice President of Mobility Solutions. He is responsible for the marketing of Cisco’s wireless portfolio as well as the development of the corresponding applications and services that make mobility a leadership initiative at Cisco. Prior to this role, he led product management for Cisco’s Wireless Business Unit, launching the Unified Architecture, driving 65% market share, and garnering the thought leadership position in the industry. Prior to Cisco, Alan was the VP of Marketing and Product Management at Airespace (which was acquired by Cisco), a pioneering Wireless LAN systems company he helped bring to market and drive to the third largest player in Enterprise WLAN market in 24 months.

Prior to Airespace, Alan served as Vice President of Marketing at Tahoe Networks. In that capacity, he launched the company in the mobile Internet space, where his responsibilities ranged from developing its mobile edge router to establishing its worldwide presence and brand. Prior to Tahoe Networks, Alan held senior management positions at Cisco Systems, where he led key service provider initiatives including Internet OSS, New World Ecosystem, and Internet Business Solutions. Alan also held executive and senior management roles from IBM, US West and Coopers & Lybrand.

Alan holds an M.B.A. from New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, an M.A. from American University's School of International Service, and a B.A. from SUNY Buffalo.

Pat brings a wealth of industry experience and technical expertise as well as a significant background in standards-based to his work as CTO of the Ethernet and Wireless Technology Group at Cisco Systems. Prior to joining Cisco Systems, Pat was co-founder and CTO at Airespace, where he was architect and software lead for the award-winning LWAPP WLAN Controller, which resulted in a dramatic shift in WLAN architectures.

Before that, Pat headed the Sun Laboratories fourth generation research project, which focused on a next-generation core and radio access network (RAN) wireless network using IP only devices. Many of the ideas generated from this project were used to form the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF) core network architecture and IP in the RAN working group, as well as the Third-Generation Partnership Project 2's (3GPP2) all-IP architecture ad hoc group.

Pat managed an advanced development team focused on mobility and security at US Robotics/3Com, where he also acted as an architect for the NetServer, the routing module in the Total Control Chassis. While managing the development team, Pat designed Virtual Tunneling Protocol (VTP), which was the first Internet virtual private network (VPN) access router service deployed.

Pat's involvement in the development of standards and protocols includes contributing to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards since 1994, chaired the IETF seamless mobility working group and co-authored PPTP, L2TP and the Diameter protocol, which is the follow-on to RADIUS. He also served as editor of the AAA Working Group, which oversaw the standardization of Diameter. Most recently, Pat co-authored the Lightweight Access Point Protocol (LWAPP), which is the basis for the upcoming CAPWAP standard, a standard protocol between Access Points and WLAN controllers. Pat also chaired the IEEE’s 802.11v task group, which focuses on wireless network management.

Ben Gibson brings 15 years of networking industry experience to Cisco Systems, where he leads all outbound marketing initiatives for Cisco's Wireless LAN Business Unit. Prior to Cisco, Gibson served as Vice President of Marketing at both Meru Networks and Proxim Corporation, where he led global marketing, communications, investor relations, and channel marketing programs. During his tenures both at at Meru and Proxim, Gibson successfully positioned the companies in the emerging voice-over-WLAN and WiMAX markets, launched several new broadband wireless solutions targeting outdoor applications, and developed successful global channel and demand generation programs. Prior to Proxim, Gibson served as Director of Marketing at Atrica, Inc., where he helped establish the company as a leader in the Optical Ethernet market. Gibson has also held product marketing positions at Cisco for the Catalyst 2900/3500 Switching families, and at 3Com Corporation.

Bob Friday has spent his career developing unlicensed wireless networking technology and products. Fourteen of those years were spent at Metricom developing and deploying three generations of unlicensed outdoor wireless mesh networks. At Metricom Bob was directly responsible for the development of three generations of outdoor unlicensed radio hardware and as Chief RF Scientist was directly responsible for the performance and capacity of Metricom’s nationwide Ricochet network. As a founder of Airespace, Bob brought his experience from the outdoor wireless service provider market to the indoor wireless enterprise market introducing a centralized controller architecture to enterprise 802.11 wireless networks. At Airspace Bob was responsible for the radio hardware development, radio resource management algorithms, location technology and mesh wireless routing technology. Following Cisco’s acquisition of Airespace, Bob continues his focus on developing mesh, location and new wireless technologies.

Mr. Friday holds a BSEE from Georgia Tech and a MSEE in communications from San Jose State University.

Georganne Benesch is Senior Manager for SMB and Emerging Markets Product Management in the wireless business unit at Cisco Systems, Inc. Prior to Cisco, she worked as consultant providing product management and marketing services for both start-up and established companies such as Firetide, Meru Networks, Nomadix, and Belkin. Prior to consulting, Georganne was VP of Product Management at Proxim and held product management, marketing, and strategic development roles at Farallon, Netopia, and Ungermann-Bass.

Bob brings over twenty-five years of engineering experience in the development of networking, telecommunications, and computing products with experience in wireless, as well as other communication protocols. In additional to his experience with standards development, cryptography and its application, strategy development and product definition, he served as the president of Informed Technology, Inc, a consulting group to networking and telecommunications companies. Bob was instrumental in the development of strategies, products, standards, technical marketing materials, and technical training materials for clients such as Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Aironet Wireless Communications (Cisco), Symbol Technologies, and 3Com Corporation. Bob was directly responsible for the creation and management of industry and international standards, including IEEE 802.11 MAC and PHY for Wireless LANs and 802.1X Port Based Access Control. Bob maintains direct involvement with IEEE standards development – specifically the 802.11 standards, their operation, process and practice. He is currently the chairman of the 802.11 revision task group and a member of the IEEE 802 Executive Committee.

Bob’s published works include two editions of the IEEE 802.11 Handbook: A Designer’s Companion, contributing author to Gigabit Ethernet Handbook, and co-author of the IEEE Microwave Magazine, June 2001 article Standards in IEEE 802 Unleash the Wireless Internet. In addition to being a member of the IEEE Computer Society his affiliations include technical editor of IEEE802.11F Recommended Practice for an Inter Access Point Protocol and recording secretary of IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee. Bob holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Chris Kozup is a Manager for Wireless / Mobility Marketing with Cisco Systems. He is responsible for market development and strategy for Cisco’s portfolio of wireless LAN products and solutions.

Chris has a specific focus on building the business case for how a unified wired and wireless approach to enterprise-wide mobility can improve business profitability, increase productivity and lead to sustainable competitive advantage. Additionally, Chris is responsible for helping to ensure the success of Cisco’s wireless team within the retail vertical through relevant collateral including ROI and TCO models and relevant business cases. Prior to joining Cisco in 2006, Chris was with META Group where he served as a Program Director for Infrastructure Strategies, with a particular focus on enterprise communications. He has a B.A. from Ohio University and a Masters of Business Administration from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain.

As a Market Manager for the Wireless/Mobility Group at Cisco Systems, Inc., Peggy manages the marketing efforts that support Cisco’s integration of wired and wireless networks. Peggy led the marketing introduction of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network and Cisco’s wireless security solutions for Cisco Aironet products.

Peggy has held numerous positions at Cisco prior to supporting wireless networking technology, including Marketing Manager in Cisco’s Commercial Line of Business and Business Development Manager in Cisco’s Customer Advocacy organization.

Previous to Cisco, Peggy worked for Sony Electronics, Inc. managing the deployment of distance learning classrooms in the United States and managing business development activities.

Peggy has a BA from San Jose State University.

As a manager in the Mobility Solutions Marketing, Isabelle Guis is responsible for the marketing strategy of Cisco Unified Wireless Network with a heavy emphasis on developing marketing activities for Commercial customers that leverage network systems and security. Her team delivers marketing messaging and tools on products and solutions to help enable partners to promote the vast potential business opportunities offered by Cisco Mobility solutions.

Prior to Cisco, Isabelle served at Nortel Networks for seven years in a variety of roles in the Enterprise and Service Provider divisions from R&D engineer, to product line pricing, product manager and product marketing manager. As a senior product marketing manager for Nortel, Isabelle was responsible for the Wireless LAN 2200 series portfolio, which was based on the Airespace architecture that is the foundation of our Unified Wireless Network solution today. She also has strong international wireless experience, having launched 3G technologies in Europe and North America, and was instrumental in the company's involvement in WLAN technologies for both Hot Spots and Enterprises. Isabelle holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Supelec in France and an MBA from Harvard Business School.