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José Luis Salazar Valenzuela

Senior Account Executive, AI Infrastructure & NeoClouds

Cisco Cloud & AI Infrastructure

José Luis Salazar Valenzuela is a Senior Account Executive driving AI Infrastructure & NeoClouds with Service Providers across EMEA. In his current role, he leads Cisco’s go-to-market for AI, Sovereign Infrastructure, and NeoCloud architectures, working with customers and partners to scale trusted, energy-efficient, and differentiated AI platforms. He brings deep cross-domain expertise across AI, optics, cloud infrastructure, and partner ecosystems. Previously, José Luis served as Global Partner Go-To-Market Lead for Cisco’s Optics and Internet & Mass-Scale Infrastructure portfolio, driving the transition to high-speed, power-efficient optical networking to support hybrid work and AI workloads. Before that, he led Cisco’s global Customer Experience partner strategy, and earlier was responsible for global partner sales across Energy, Transportation, IoT, and Digital Transformation. José Luis joined Cisco in 2006 as an Enterprise Systems Engineer. He was later recognized for strategic wins as Emerging Technologies Technical Lead in Ireland, then transitioned into sales roles as Territory Business Manager and Large Opportunities Account Manager. Prior to Cisco, José Luis held R&D and pre-sales roles at Eircom, Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland, and Nortel Networks across Germany, Sweden, and Ireland. His work spanned software development, encryption technologies, telecoms management, mobility, and unified communications. He holds a Master of Science in Engineering (Data Communications) from the University of Sheffield (UK), where he was awarded a scholarship by the National Council on Science and Technology of Mexico to course his degree. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communications with a Graduate Diploma in Telecommunications from Tecnológico de Monterrey. José Luis has completed executive programs in AI for Digital Transformation (Cornell Tech), Data Analytics (Cornell SC Johnson College of Business), and Strategic Execution (Duke Fuqua School of Business).

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June 16, 2025

PARTNER

AI-Ready Optics Transceivers Partner Enablement Campaign

2 min read

Join the Super Optics League, an exciting enablement campaign for Cisco Partners and Distributors, and discover how Cisco Optics deliver performance, reliability, and growth in high-speed network environments.

July 8, 2021

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Drive adoption and revenue by leveraging Solution Support

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Introducing Cisco Solution Support: One single contract to consolidate all of our support services — including Smart Net Total Care for hardware support, Cisco CX Software Support, and third-party support for our Alliance Partner Products.

November 6, 2020

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Increase Revenue and Profit with the New CX Partner Profitability Calculator

2 min read

Today, Cisco partners have more customer data and insights to help them identify and capture services opportunities, accelerate customer outcomes, and provide greater value. This leads to happier customers with a greater propensity to buy more products and services, further leading to increased revenue for partners and greater Cisco rebates and incentives.

July 24, 2020

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Cisco Managed Services Offers To Support Partners Across Their Portfolio Journey

3 min read

Cisco understands that not all partners have the same focus areas or business models. They may be at different stages in developing new technologies, architectures, and solution portfolios. That’s why Cisco offers a range of services to support partners, regardless of where they are in their journey.

February 26, 2020

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Secure Automated SD-WAN Partner Services Options

3 min read

Digitization and Automation are changing the way in which companies operate and interact with their customers. Across all industries customer expectations are paramount and the pace in which every organization can adapt to these expectations defines their success or failure.

January 17, 2020

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Partner Services Opportunities in Enterprise Networking

3 min read

Learn more about how we engage with our customers and support them through their customer experience journey.

October 11, 2019

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Customer Experience Partner Insights

2 min read

Tap into Cisco's tools, resources and on-demand services available today to help our Partners' evolution to delivering a new customer experience.

July 17, 2019

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Critical Network Infrastructure in IoT Industries

4 min read

By the year 2021 up to 41% of all data traffic will be delivered across multiple countries.

May 15, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence Partner Opportunity

2 min read

A short time ago I had the opportunity to participate in the AI Partner and Customer events that we had in our Innovation Centers in Paris, London and Berlin. The...

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