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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

September 4, 2024

PARTNER

Three myths preventing you from building your lifecycle practice

5 min read

Unlock 3X more recurring revenue by building a lifecycle practice with Cisco. Overcome common myths with help from Cisco distributors, enhancing customer experience and boosting profitability with streamlined support and expertise.

April 22, 2024

PARTNER

It’s Earth Day! Let’s talk Circularity, Growth and Profitability!

3 min read

“The Plan for Possible” is Cisco’s next-generation environmental sustainability strategy and action plan. Our plan includes a core tenet: evolving our business from linear to circular. And that involves a circular economy-- an economic model based on recycling, reusing, and reducing the resources used.

October 24, 2023

PARTNER

Prioritizing sustainability can open doors to profitability

3 min read

Cisco has made sustainability a priority for many years, and we recently launched Cisco’s next generation environmental sustainability strategy. As a part of that, we have also set a goal to reach net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across our value chain by 2040.

June 22, 2023

PARTNER

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

4 min read

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!

5 min read

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

PARTNER

Your Customers Need Better Security

4 min read

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.

January 26, 2023

PARTNER

The Vast Hybrid Work Opportunity

4 min read

Cisco has the solutions, technology, and resources to help customers focus on getting work done instead of worrying about where and when that work gets done. Cisco Distributors and Partners turns these solutions into outcomes for our customers.

April 12, 2022

PARTNER

Make the Sustainability Shift with Cisco towards a Circular Economy

2 min read

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.

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.