Bill Hentschell

Mr. Bill Hentschell serves as the Director of Digital Networks Architectures for the Americas Partner Organization at Cisco Systems, Inc. Mr. Hentschell is responsible for the growth, profitability, and success of our partners as the primary route to market across Cisco’s two core architectures representing over $10B in revenue. During his more than 20 years at Cisco, he has held various leadership roles, is involved in Cisco’s M&A activity, and is a strategic advisor to several ISV partners. Leveraging his background in programming, operating systems, and networking he has been a frequent speaker at many industry events including RSA, Cisco’s Global Sales Experience, Cisco Live (Americas, LATAM, EMEAR, and APJC), Enterprise Connect, and a featured speaker for The Department of Homeland Security. Prior, Mr. Hentschell was the worldwide leader of Enterprise Routing Sales where he had the opportunity to travel the globe listening and advising hundreds of customers, partners, and service providers on how they use technology to transform their business in this new area of digitization. Mr. Hentschell attained his MBA and piloted the first Cisco MBA cohort with the University of Phoenix. Additionally, he has a degree in Management and Leadership from the MIT Sloan School of Business and his B.S. in Criminology and Criminal Law from the University of Missouri. Currently, he lives in St. Louis Missouri with two young children and spends his free time as an amateur photographer and amateur hockey player.