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Andrew Sage

Vice President

Global Partners and Distribution Sales

Andrew is Vice President of Global Partners and Distribution Sales, leading Cisco’s 17-billion-dollar 2T distribution channel. He is responsible for sales, marketing, operations, and logistics across 230 countries, involving 200 distributors and almost 40,000 resellers. Andrew joined Cisco in August 1999 and has more than 25 years of networking industry experience. He has held leadership positions in sales, marketing, and channels – always directly involved in making technology solutions accessible to small and mid-sized customers through various routes to market. In recent years Andrew and his team have led the way in bringing SaaS and annuities to the channel at scale. Andrew is also the executive sponsor for Sustainability in the Cisco partner organization. He has a degree in Economics from the University of Toronto, and his home base is Pleasanton, California where he lives with his wife and three children.

Articles

April 20, 2021

PARTNER

Cisco is closing the loop on the Circular Economy

2 min read

The race to reduce our dependence on raw materials is on. Find out how a holistic approach to designing, building, and delivering products is helping Cisco build a more #circulareconomy.

February 12, 2021

PARTNER

Carpe Diem—Seize the Day—with Cisco as your Trusted Partner

3 min read

Every day, technology becomes more accessible to more businesses, and it benefits more people. To welcome our partners and distis to 2021 and meet our revenue goals, Cisco will be focusing on secure remote work, managed services, and Customer Experience & Life Management.

January 22, 2021

PARTNER

Democratizing Technology for SMBs

4 min read

Cisco has been engineering its technology to be consumed as a service, or cloud-delivered networking, making it easily accessible, simplified, secure, and cost-effective. Partners can help their customers deploy apps quickly to drive business value and process improvement that was once out of reach for smaller IT budgets.

December 17, 2020

PARTNER

My Personal Message of Deep Gratitude to our Distributors and Partners

1 min read

With our partners and distributors, I want to share a lesson I learned in this unique year, 2020.

April 22, 2020

PARTNER

Cisco wants its equipment back.

2 min read

Happy Earth Day to all of you. For 50 years, we’ve been celebrating Earth Day, and even in this uncertain time, we’re making progress, thanks to companies like Cisco that have committed themselves to the Circular Economy.

April 9, 2020

PARTNER

New Sales Motion, Designed for Small Business, Focused on Security

2 min read

The new sales motions are called Scale Plays, and the first in this series is our Security Scale Play, designed to help small businesses strengthen their cyber security simply and dramatically.

September 13, 2019

PARTNER

Wi-Fi 6 and Winning in the Mobile-First World

2 min read

This edition of the Fast Five series focuses on the Catalyst 9100 series, the next stage in Cisco Intent-Based Networking, and how to prepare customers for Wi-Fi 6.

June 24, 2019

PARTNER

Compute, Networking, Storage. Together – Anywhere.

2 min read

Welcome to the next instalment in the The Fast Five series, where I track down Cisco executives to talk about their solutions, developed for our distributors and 2-tier partners.

May 17, 2019

PARTNER

Intent-Based Networking for Every Customer

2 min read

Learn more about The Fast Five and how to take advantage of the Catalyst 9200 opportunity.