As Global Vice President of Collaboration Partner Sales at Cisco, Kristyn Hogan drives strategy and execution across all routes to market for Cisco's $4B+ Collaboration business. She leads a global team focused on accelerating partner growth through innovative enablement programs, strategic demand generation initiatives, and compelling profitability models.
With over 20 years of technology leadership experience, she brings deep expertise in building and scaling partner ecosystems. Working closely with Cisco's regional partner organizations, business entities, and global sales teams, she has consistently delivered double-digit growth while transforming how partners capture emerging market opportunities.
Before her current role, she served as head of Americas Partner Organization for Meraki, where she drove record-breaking double-digit channel growth. Her track record includes leadership positions across Cisco's collaboration and partner organizations, consistently driving innovation in go-to-market strategies.
Kristyn is a passionate advocate for inclusion and equity. She actively participates in Cisco’s Proximity Initiative, engaging in one-on-one conversations that foster understanding across different perspectives and lived experiences, helping to embed inclusive behaviors into the business. She also serves as a mentor in Cisco’s executive shadowing program, guiding the next generation of leaders.
A champion for diversity and leadership development, she has been recognized on CRN's Women of the Channel list for the past decade. She contributes to Cisco's future through her involvement in the Connected Women's Network and maintains strong community ties through her service on the MD Anderson Cancer Center Advance Team Board and the American Heart Association executive leadership team for the Houston Heart Ball.
With a suite of new devices poised to enhance our already robust portfolio and immersive experiences within Webex itself, we're geared towards propelling your success to new heights. Here's a rundown of the incredible innovations we've shared at Enterprise Connect.
Cisco has partnered with Cloud Communications Service Provider, NWN Carousel, integrating their managed services via the Experience Management Platform (EMP) into Webex Calling to deliver a seamless migration experience, especially for customers with unique needs in high compliance and regulatory industries.
I hope you are as excited as I am about the innovation taking place. An even more powerful and comprehensive technology platform at the core of our business fuels our channel strategy and provides partners with differentiated collaboration experiences to deliver to customers.
Today marks the beginning of a new era for AT&T, Cisco, and our Partners with the announcement of Webex Go with AT&T. This innovation radically simplifies customers’ ability to communicate via a single mobile number while bringing the hybrid work experience along anywhere and everywhere they go.
We are thrilled to expand our 30+ year strategic partnership with NTT to transition customers to the Cisco Webex cloud calling and collaboration platform.
Today, we’re making it easier for select partners in the US to equip their customers with the best devices and apps at the ‘best price’ with competitive payment options - including 0% financing - enabled through Cisco Capital in partnership with DLL Financial Solutions.
Today we're delighted to announce the launch of Webex Suite Named User (NU) on AWS Marketplace, expanding Cisco's curated catalog of Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings available to partners.
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Webex Contact Center, our contact center as a service (CCaaS) solution, has been added to our agency offer.
Our dedication to our channel partners shines through innovation that increases market opportunities, unlocks new routes market, and transforms the way our customers do business.