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Kristine Snow

President

Cisco Capital

Kristine (Kris) A. Snow is President of Cisco Systems Capital Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc., where she leads the company’s global captive finance business. Cisco Capital is focused on delivering premier solutions in Technology Financing, Channel Financing, and Cisco Refresh. Managing over $9 Billion in assets with a presence in over 100 countries. Snow balances sales enablement for Cisco with overall lease and loan portfolio risk to drive profitability for Cisco Capital. Snow joined Cisco from CIT Group, Inc. in 2009. As President of Global Vendor Finance at CIT, she led operations in over 30 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. In this capacity, Snow oversaw office products, technology, and diversified vendor financing with over $15 Billion in managed assets. Prior to CIT, Snow spent over 17 years at Sun Microsystems, Inc. in roles of increasing responsibilities, most recently as the General Manager and Senior Vice President for Sun’s captive finance business, Sun Microsystems Global Financial Services. In this role, she provided worldwide leadership to its three operating units: Structured Financing, Utility and Variable Computing Infrastructure, and Asset Management/Remarketed Products. Before her work at Sun Microsystems, Snow held various technical positions with Cray Research Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, and General Electric’s Calma Division. Given Snow’s extensive experience in the technology industry and being a female executive, she remains very passionate about the career growth and acceleration of women in technology. Over the past years, she has participated in several women’s networking groups and mentor circles to help make a positive impact. In 2012, Snow was honored and recognized for Exemplifying Excellence as a Female Executive as a recipient of the 2012 YWCA Tribute to Women (TWIN) Award for the Silicon Valley. Kris is currently an Executive Sponsor for the Women’s Finance Network at Cisco Systems, Inc. Snow is a former Board Director of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA) and also a former member of the Board’s Executive Committee. She is a past Chair of the Vendor and Captive Business Council of ELFA. Snow is currently serving on the Board’s Nominating Committee. Snow holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Gonzaga University and a Master of Business Administration from St. Mary’s College of California. Snow currently co-chairs the executive council for the Gonzaga University School of Engineering and Applied Science and currently serves on the advisory board to the St. Mary’s College School of Economics and Business Administration. You can also follow Kristine on The Cisco Network.

Articles

March 22, 2023

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Balancing Growth and Budget in 2023

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Cisco empowers customers and partners to work toward a more sustainable future and with a hybrid approach. Cisco Capital helps organizations navigate economic uncertainty with payment and lifecycle management solutions to balance growth and maximize IT investments.

January 25, 2022

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Make Predictability and Sustainability Your Copilots for a Successful 2022

2 min read

Cisco flexible payment and lifecycle solutions can help your business accelerate and leverage Hybrid Work to be more productive, enjoy predictability, and sustainability for a successful 2022.

September 1, 2020

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Helping customers and partners succeed with financing and technology lifecycle options

2 min read

Cisco Capital meets customers and partners where they are to help accelerate their digital transformation. We provide innovative financing and lifecycle management solutions to alleviate strain and help manage payments and cash flow, spread payments over time, and flexible end of term options as well as certified remanufactured technology.

August 23, 2019

FINANCIAL SERVICES

The Positive Impact of Digitization on the Finance and Leasing Industry

2 min read

The global asset finance and leasing industry is a sector that now exceeds $1 trillion and has witnessed phenomenal growth over the past four decades.

August 26, 2019

INNOVATION

Flexible Consumption Models for Cisco Customers and Partners

2 min read

Cisco Capital looks to consistently provide competitive advantages that address customer and partner needs with consumption solutions, specifically usage and subscription payment models. Leveraging these models has created business opportunities...

October 19, 2018

PARTNER

Catalyzing Partner Innovation through Ecosystem Partners and Cisco Capital

4 min read

Jointly with our ecosystem partners, we unlock success for our customers through a combination of our hardware and software products, flexible financing, and our ecosystem partners’ industry expertise and solutions.

October 15, 2018

NETWORKING

Keeping IT Simple with Flexible Payment Solutions

3 min read

When your equipment reaches the end of its life cycle, replace it and upgrade to the latest Meraki technology with Cisco Easy Pay. Make things simple.

October 16, 2018

PARTNER

Supporting our customers through their technology transitions

2 min read

Cisco has developed a portfolio of solutions provided by Cisco Refresh and Cisco Capital to address these needs for our customers, without having to consider third-party providers.    

August 27, 2018

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Securing Solutions in the Race to Digital Transformation

2 min read

#CiscoCapital Kristine Snow shares how the freedom of flexibility by our financing solutions can help shape how organizations succeed in digital transformation.

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