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Jason W. Gallo

VP of Partner Go-to-Market Acceleration

Global Partner and Routes to Market Sales

Jason brings business, finance, and engineering expertise to drive global success. His outcome-based leadership and focus on profitable business growth have led to career success at Fortune 50 companies. Jason’s adept ability to apply financial knowledge and fuse that with technology is a trademark of his initiatives. Jason is Vice President of Cisco’s Partner Go-to-Market Acceleration, where he leads a team that drives comprehensive global channel strategies with tens of thousands of Cisco Partners. Jason leads the partner go-to-market strategy for Cisco’s key businesses, such as Network Experiences, Cloud Networking & Compute, Full Stack Observability, and IoT. Jason was recently recognized in 2023 and 2022 as a Channel Chief by Computer Reseller News and has previously been named one of the Top 100 under 50 Executive Leaders by Diversity MBA magazine. He has been a prominent and frequent speaker for Cisco global partner events, analyst conferences, industry activities and a contributor for thought leadership publications and business-related social media channels. Jason is one of the executive sponsors of the Cisco Social Justice Initiative and co-founder of the Alpha Phi Alpha Endowed Scholarship at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has traveled the globe visiting partners in over 20 countries to stay current on various local business strategies and understand cultures that create success. Jason received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a Master of Engineering Management from the Washington State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Jason enjoys challenging endurance races, as well as time with his wife and two children.

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November 3, 2021

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First Quarter NPI Highlights as we Head into Partner Summit 2021

3 min read

As we head into Partner Summit 2021, I wanted to cover some of the highlights for the New Product Introductions (NPI) released in our first quarter of fiscal 2022.

June 3, 2021

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Creating Your Cloud Future!

2 min read

Cisco's strategy has evolved for many years and this week we have solidified our Hybrid, Multicloud, and App-centric cloud strategies with our Future Cloud launch. The span of opportunities has never been greater.

February 18, 2021

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IoT – Connect Now, Innovate the Future

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Cisco globally has approximately 21% of the rapidly growing IoT market and will continue to invest and innovate to lead the market and provide an opportunity for partners to drive incremental revenue.

November 10, 2020

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Thoughts from Partner Summit Digital 2020

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Gain all the benefits of Partner Summit Digital by watching or downloading the sessions' videos and presentations. We are in an important time of the year, and as we look toward calendar year 2021, I would like to offer some top-of-mind considerations:

October 7, 2020

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IT Agility and Moving at the Speed of your Customer

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Cisco has been saying that a foundational strength comes from connecting, securing, and automating a business. I am confident you have seen this in the past year when addressing your customer's needs.

April 20, 2020

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The Best Digital Platform for Your Customers Physical Spaces – which they may already own!

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In this blog, I talked with Leel Peesapati, who leads the Cisco DNA Spaces GTM strategy, about the top things Partners should consider when building out a location analytics practice.

April 7, 2020

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Wi-Fi 6 is a Sure Bet in Any Infrastructure Upgrade

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The need for Wi-Fi 6 comes down to its superior handling of traffic from high-density situations with customers, employees, guests, and devices. Undoubtedly your customers will be asking about Wi-Fi 6, and as their technology advisor, you want to be in a position to address their needs.

January 31, 2020

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Ignite the Mid-Market

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I am excited to kick off this blog series where you’ll hear from key Cisco Sales Business Development experts who we collaborate with to bring to market the best programs, promotions and initiatives that enable partners' success. The topic in our series brings us to a focus on the Small & Mid Market customer segments.

May 30, 2019

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Crossing the Threshold of Wireless Expectation

2 min read

Wireless in the form of a smartphone is an important item you always have. But how does everything come together to make it such an important addition for your life?

January 15, 2019

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The New Year, the Value of You!

1 min read

The New Year always brings a time of reflection and a focus on what the next year will bring. This year, it is all about value beyond connectivity.

December 11, 2018

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Your chance to refresh 25% of the world’s ports, and make them Intent-based ready

1 min read

The new Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series is ideally positioned to address an extensive set of applications for your customers.

August 7, 2018

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The Next Step in Intent-based Networking for the WAN

2 min read

Accelerate your sales and your customers’ journey to an intent-based WAN. SD-WAN capabilities are now available on the most robust and widely deployed routing platform on the market.

May 30, 2018

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Get Ready to Accelerate, Shift Up, and Drive More Innovation with Cisco DNA

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You don’t want to miss the upcoming region partner webinars. We’re going to give you a full preview of the exciting announcements planned for Cisco Live in Orlando.

April 17, 2018

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Next Wave of Intent-Based Networking Innovations at Cisco PCW 2018

3 min read

Continuous innovation a requirement. Jason Gallo shares how Cisco has continued to build on Intent-Based Networking and what the next wave means for partners.

May 31, 2017

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The Partner Opportunity with Cisco’s New Enterprise Agreement

2 min read

As Cisco continues to transition our portfolio towards a software centric, subscription-based model, we are constantly looking for ways to help our customers simplify their software management and get the most out of their investments. To do that, we announced the Cisco Enterprise Agreement (Cisco EA), the next stage in the evolution of our former […]

November 1, 2016

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The 3 S’s of Success: Security. Software. Simplicity.

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Our most profitable partners sell security. And the underpinning of security solutions is software. Yet profit isn’t the only reason you should amp up your security practice. With cyberattacks increasing...

July 11, 2016

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11,000 customers can’t be wrong about…

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Co-authored by John Growdon Digital transformation. You’ve heard us talk about this a lot, and for good reason. It’s swiftly changing how organizations globally must do business. For businesses to...

May 17, 2016

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Three Ways to Make Money with Software

3 min read

Digital Transformation. We hear that phrase a lot these days, and for good reason. Companies are focused on delivering the best digital customer and workforce experiences using technology. Most of the time, this digitization is enabled by software.   As this accelerates, are you prepared to keep up?   More importantly, are you poised to […]