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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.

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June 22, 2023

PARTNER

Tap into the multibillion-dollar security market opportunity with Cisco!

Your role in protecting SMBs extends beyond cyber security, to physical security as well. Partners can easily add  Meraki MV Smart Cameras and Meraki Sensors to their existing Cisco Meraki deployments quite literally with the push of a button.

May 1, 2023

PARTNER

Cisco Partners, It Is Time to Embrace Cisco SASE!

Every journey to SASE is unique. Customers value having a choice of networking and cloud security capabilities. Cisco has both a unified SASE solution and a modular SASE solution, enabling Partners to meet customers where they are today. Here are three of the core use cases we see:

March 7, 2023

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Your Customers Need Better Security

For years, Cisco partners have been at the forefront, advising our mutual customers on everything networking by leveraging Cisco’s broad portfolio of networking products. But now the opportunity is here for you to grow your business by also selling Cisco security — and here are four key reasons why.

April 12, 2022

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Make the Sustainability Shift with Cisco towards a Circular Economy

Cisco is committed to moving from a linear economy, where products are used and then thrown away, to a circular economy that makes better use of our limited natural resources. Today, we are excited to share that Cisco launched its Environmental Sustainability Specialization, a new business specialization available to all Cisco partners.

November 8, 2021

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Everything Possible. Especially Saving the Planet.

Cisco has made sustainability a top priority. Learn how we are helping partners and distributors make sustainability profitable.

November 5, 2021

PARTNER

Everything Possible. For All of Us. Don’t Miss the Revolution.

Cisco has big plans to help our distributors and partners. Don’t miss Partner Summit 2021!

April 20, 2021

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Cisco is closing the loop on the Circular Economy

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

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

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

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.