Brian Feeney

Brian Feeney is Vice President of Global Security Partner Sales at Cisco. He serves as a vital bridge across teams and regions by developing and executing an aligned security partner strategy. He previously held leadership roles in cybersecurity, collaboration, and networking companies including Deep Instinct, Palo Alto Networks, Imperva, HP Aruba Networks, and Avaya. In his most recent role as global channel chief at Deep Instinct, he built and launched the Stratosphere partner program, with a focus on simplicity, profitability, and memorability. Prior to that he worked at Palo Alto Networks where he ran the worldwide ecosystems team for Cortex, growing the partner-initiated business to over $100M in just two years primarily through expanding new routes to market including MDR partnerships, GSI, MSSP, service provider and cloud service provider alliances. Brian holds an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Brian and his wife of 24 years, Allison, live in Bend, Oregon with their three kids (17, 14 and 12). You will typically find them very involved in their local church and community to encourage and lift-up others around them. Brian is also thrilled that his entire family has taken up golf so they can enjoy a good deal of time together on the course. In fact, for the last two years he has also served as a volunteer high school golf coach at his son’s school.