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James Turrell

Head of CX Marketing and Communications

Customer Experience

James Turrell is Cisco's Head of Customer Experience (CX) Marketing and Communications. James joined Cisco in August 2020 to drive Cisco CX on its next growth chapter and lead the marketing arm of Cisco’s newly merged CX Marketing and Communications organization. With CX’s continued focus on campaign acceleration, digital experience, and content revolution, James helps drive the CX narrative by using brand storytelling and customer success stories to convey the value of CX. With more than 25 years in the technology industry, James specializes in the design and implementation of customer success journeys, helping customers realize business value quickly. Through his customer-centric work, James has earned a reputation for creating innovative customer success experiences through rich content and highly engaging employee and customer enablement programs. His extensive background in end-to-end experience design, creative and content strategy, and customer adoption and renewals enables him to define new ways for customers and partners to leverage technology to achieve better business outcomes. Prior to Cisco, James was at Salesforce, where he was most recently responsible for Customer & Employee Enablement. In his 16 years at Salesforce, James built their EMEA Customer Success Practice, pioneered customer success methodologies for SaaS, developed their mobile strategy, and was responsible for building customer onboarding journeys for their core cloud products. Previously, James also held product management and marketing leadership positions within the travel technology industry. In these roles, James was responsible for taking leisure travel and corporate self-booking travel products to market. During his time at Travelport, James was also responsible for defining and implementing the Galileo International CRM program across EMEA and APAC regions. James has a passion for building, equipping, and coaching teams to do their best work through a relentless focus on the customer. When he’s not at work, James enjoys photography, traveling, and wine tasting in his home county of Napa, California. Over the years James has enjoyed participating in philanthropic causes, most recently supporting a UK charity, Astriid, where he led his Salesforce Marketing team to refresh the charity’s brand. James is also a supporter and fundraiser for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

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November 21, 2023

CISCO SERVICES (CX)

Join CX for Cisco Live Demos

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With a dozen CX demos throughout Cisco Live Melbourne, let’s get you ready to explore and start accelerating your business outcomes.

October 5, 2023

CISCO SERVICES (CX)

Cisco CX Collaborates with Puntonet on Network Modernization

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Let’s see how Puntonet was able to transform its network to strengthen security, performance, and availability throughout Ecuador. Celebrate another Cisco Customer Story with me.

August 22, 2023

CISCO SERVICES (CX)

Cisco CX Helps Trident Technical College Deliver Secure Educational Services

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Join us in celebrating one of the latest CX Customer Stories. Trident Technical College was able to provide secure, accessible, and innovative educational services by working with Cisco Services to provide a seamless experience for students to access data and learn more effectively.

June 5, 2023

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CISCO SERVICES (CX)

Celebrating Excellence: Our 2023 CX Customer Hero Award Winners

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Today, we are thrilled to present the Cisco CX Customer Hero Award to eight customers who have demonstrated excellence in their specific categories. The following customers were selected from nominations received from across industries and the Americas region and we are honored to recognize them today- congratulations to all our winners!

February 7, 2023

CISCO SERVICES (CX)

Celebrating our 2023 EMEA Cisco Customer Experience Heroes

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At Cisco CX, our customers are our heroes. We are honored to work with changemakers, innovators, and trailblazers who have partnered with our teams to achieve industry-leading and transformational outcomes for their businesses.

December 5, 2022

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CISCO SERVICES (CX)

Celebrating our 2022 APJC Cisco Customer Experience Heroes

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At Cisco CX, we are proud to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of our customers in the APJC region by highlighting five who have been selected to receive a 2022 APJC Cisco CX Customer Hero Award. These awards celebrate their stories of innovation and inspire others with their incredible successes.

September 28, 2022

CISCO SERVICES (CX)

Exciting Times Ahead

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Cisco is bringing back its flagship Cisco Connect events to many regions worldwide to help our customers and partners capitalize on these exciting opportunities.

September 26, 2022

CISCO SERVICES (CX)

Get Ready to Rock with CX On Tour

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International Customer Experience Day is coming, and at Cisco, customer experience is so important that we celebrate the entire week.

June 14, 2022

CISCO SERVICES (CX)

Meet the 2022 Cisco Customer Experience Heroes

3 min read

At Cisco CX, our customers are our heroes. We are honored to work with change makers, innovators, and trailblazers who have partnered with our teams to achieve industry-leading and transformational outcomes for their businesses. We value the opportunity to help our customers embrace their possible.

March 30, 2021

CISCO SERVICES (CX)

Meet the innovators: The inaugural CX Customer Hero Award winners

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The CX Customer Hero Awards celebrate our customers – the changemakers, innovators, and discoverers who have achieved industry-leading and transformational outcomes for their businesses.