Dan Lohmeyer

Dan Lohmeyer the Vice President of Product Management leading Global Offer Acceleration and License Simplification at Cisco. He and his team are advancing Cisco’s business transformation to software, subscription, and as-as-service through the development and release of transformational offers that enable customers to purchase Cisco’s portfolio in more compelling models. Dan and his team simplify how Cisco does business with its customers and partners through buying programs such as the Enterprise Agreement, Managed Services License Agreement, and Service Provider Network Agreement. In addition, the team improves efficiency, accelerates time-to-market, maximizes financial results, and addresses competitive opportunities by driving Cisco’s end-to-end licensing strategy, inclusive of developing licensing tools and technologies used across Cisco as well as with customers and partners. In support of Cisco’s growth strategy, Dan partners with the divisional leaders of Networking, Data Center, Mass Scale Infrastructure, Collaboration, Security, IoT, and Services business groups to develop new offers. His alignment with Sales, Channels, Marketing, Operations, IT, and Finance enables the release of new offers to market with an improved customer experience. Prior to rejoining Cisco in 2020, Dan served three years at GE Digital as the Service Vice President of Product Management. As a member of the executive team, he led the product management, technical product management, and user experience organizations. This portfolio included Asset Performance Management, Operations Performance Management, Manufacturing Execution Systems, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Predix Platform, Digital Twins, Predix Edge, and several other applications. Dan’s experience with driving transformational consumption models began previous to his time spent with GE, where he drove Cisco’s company business model transformation for four years. This included transitioning Cisco’s core infrastructure businesses into software-based models and migrating software delivery from on-premises to Cloud/SaaS. He was responsible for the Cisco ONE Software portfolio which evolved into Cisco DNA, providing customers with Cisco’s industry-leading software capabilities associated with the infrastructure business. In addition, Dan served a decade with Microsoft in a variety of leadership roles. He led the Office 365 customer experience team, responsible for customer’s overall satisfaction with Office 365. He was responsible for business management of the Microsoft Business Solutions division and for Microsoft’s strategy and business outcomes with Independent Software Vendors, including revenue, technology adoption, and satisfaction. Before Microsoft, Dan was a management consultant at McKinsey and Company. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.