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Angelo Fienga

Director

Sustainable Solutions, EMEA

Angelo Fienga is Director, Sustainable Solutions at Cisco EMEAR, where he is responsible for defining strategies and solutions to help public and private companies achieve their Sustainability and Circular Economy goals. Angelo is an international leader with an excellent knowledge of the telecommunications and ICT industry in which he has worked for the last 28+ years. During his career he has developed extensive technical, marketing and pre-sales leadership skills both in Fortune 500 companies - Ericsson, Cisco Systems, Qualcomm - and in start-ups - Elsacom, Sky4Apps - achieving excellent results in the areas of technology and business development. In recent years Angelo has helped drive the strategy for highly disruptive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud, Drones/edge intelligence and Unified Communications. Angelo is also co-author of an Open Patent on Circular Economy https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/1532/. Angelo holds a MSc degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Rome (La Sapienza), where he also obtained a Master in Data Intelligence and Decision Science in 2019. He also obtained the certification in Design Thinking both at Cisco and IDEOU and the Cisco Black Belt Certification in Data Science. Angelo lives in Rome, is married and has two daughters.

Articles

January 10, 2024

OUR CORPORATE PURPOSE

Sustainability 101: What are smart grids?

5 min read

Curious about smart grids? Learn how the digitalization of electric grids is supporting new ways to source and use energy more sustainably.

January 30, 2020

WE ARE CISCO

Inspired by the Future of Tech

3 min read

Angelo spent time with high school students as part of a Cisco Networking Academy mentoring opportunity in Italy. What he learned from them was inspiring!

August 14, 2018

WE ARE CISCO

Going Back to School at 50 with Cisco!

4 min read

At age 50, Angelo returned to school for his Master's thanks to Cisco's benefits program! He shares 3 Tips on how you can be successful returning to school too.

October 10, 2017

INNOVATION

Collaboration, IoT, Security & Drones: How Cisco’s Cross-Architectural Approach Can Boost a Rising Market

3 min read

Drones’ full value will not be unleashed until they are released from line-of-sight flight restrictions. Cisco technology demonstrates the possibilities in Italy.