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Andrew Sage

Vice President

Global Distribution & Small Business Sales

Andrew is Vice President of Global Distribution & Small Business 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 also leads Cisco’s fast-growing Small Business segment, where the adoption of cloud and SaaS are creating unprecedented demand for cloud managed networking, security, and collaboration. 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

December 17, 2020

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My Personal Message of Deep Gratitude to our Distributors and Partners

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

November 12, 2020

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The Opportunity of a Lifetime for our Distributors and Partners

Cisco, our partners and distributors, is helping the worl economy recover by helping small- and mid-sized businesses install a digitization platform. Our new offer, Secure Remote Work, is a SaaS bundle including collaboration technology and end-to-end security. Affordable. Easy to order. Easy to consume. For customers: multiple Cisco products integrated in one simple suite. For partners: a platform to build upon with their own expertise and additions such as access devices and managed services.

April 22, 2020

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Cisco wants its equipment back.

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

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

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

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

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

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Compute, Networking, Storage. Together – Anywhere.

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

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Intent-Based Networking for Every Customer

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

May 1, 2019

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Five Easy Steps to Selling SD-WAN

This Fast Five video provides a wealth of information on selling SD-WAN for 2-tier Cisco Partners.

March 8, 2017

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Cisco Distribution Sales Visibility: Another Step toward Ease of Doing Business

Last year, Cisco launched Distribution Sales Visibility (DSV) and began deploying it, country by country, across our distribution channel. Distis in Canada and the US are all now using DSV. A Step toward EoDB The whole point of DSV is to make Cisco easier to work with for our distributors and for the resellers they […]