Brink Sanders

Brink Sanders, Senior Vice President of Global Networking Sales, currently leads a unified Campus and Branch Networking specialists' sales team, including ThousandEyes and Industrial IoT. Prior to this role, Brink led Global Specialists Strategy and Planning, a team at the forefront of Cisco's business evolution toward software and subscriptions. In this role, Brink evolved the team’s go-to-market strategy and drove planning to accelerate the security, collaboration,observability and enterprise networking and cloud businesses. Brink has also held a variety of other leadership roles at Cisco, including Transformation Strategy and Planning for the Office of the CEO, Enterprise Networking Sales for Asia Pacific, Japan, and China (APJC) Sales, Enablement and Operations for APJC, Strategy and Planning for Global Sales, and Operations for US Enterprise, Commercial and Canada. Before joining Cisco, Brink worked in various roles in technology consulting, where he partnered closely with customers throughout the lifecycle of their critical business initiatives, from determining strategy to delivering on their business outcomes. Additionally, Brink holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.