Grant Shirk is Senior Director of Product Marketing for Networking at Cisco, where he helps global IT teams deliver exceptional network experiences for their employees, customers, and partners. Grant joined Cisco in 2021 as part of the Cisco Meraki team and led the convergence of the Catalyst and Meraki product marketing teams as Cisco delivered their unified networking portfolio. Prior to Cisco, Grant served as Vice President of Marketing at Sisu Data, where data-driven organizations like Samsung and Equinox quickly find insights in their complex data. With over 20 years of experience in marketing strategy, team development, positioning, and product design, Grant has built highly effective marketing teams at Scout RFP, Vera Security, Box, Microsoft, and Tellme Networks, with a focus on rich, customer-driven storytelling. Grant earned his BA in history from Stanford University.