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Neil Heller

Manufacturing Industry Solutions

Manufacturing

Neil leads large Cisco customers in identifying, quantifying, and realizing transformative value-based disruptive solutions. He is an experienced senior executive, passionate entrepreneur, and evangelist, having built, sold, and managed global enterprise software, IoE/T, wireless, and RFID businesses in the ERP, supply chain, CRM, MES, PLM, and RTLS (Real Time Location Services) markets to Manufacturing, Electronics/Semiconductor, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Automotive, Mining, and Aero & Defense verticals. Prior to joining Cisco, Neil was the Chief Executive Officer at Tagit Solutions, a Mobile Enterprise IoT software company. Before Tagit, Neil served in executive roles at AeroScout, later acquired by Stanley Black & Decker, including Vice President of Global Sales, Vice President of Strategic Growth, and Vice President of North America & Asia Pacific Sales. Prior to AeroScout, Neil held management and senior management positions at Purisma, PTC, Brooks Automation, Vigilance, Wisdomware, and FASTech Integration.

Neil attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.

Neil resides in the Silicon Valley with his wife and children. He strives for a healthy life style including both physical fitness and mindfulness practices. Neil rides road and mountain bikes and swims in pools and open water. He volunteers with the PATHSTAR.org Alcatraz Swim Program and the Palo Alto VA Hospital’s Double Vision Tandem Cycling program.

Contact: neheller@cisco.com

Articles

June 4, 2019

MANUFACTURING

Work Where You Need to Be

3 min read

Ask anyone who’s spent their career in manufacturing, and they will confirm everything happens on the manufacturing floor. Operators run tools to make parts on the shop floor. Maintenance technicians...

March 20, 2019

MANUFACTURING

Connecting Workers in the Factory – Driving Productivity via Real-Time Access to Data and Collaboration

2 min read

Connecting factory workers with remote experts and data will completely change the way we solve problems, make decisions, and work as a team within our industrial environments.

June 18, 2018

MANUFACTURING

The Factory: A Living Organism for Wireless and Mobility

3 min read

We live in a wireless world. We almost never plug our computers into a network. Our mobile phones and tablets provide constant connectivity. Some of us wear health tracking devices...

February 8, 2018

MANUFACTURING

Manufacturing mobility: Data, voice, video, and location

2 min read

Manufacturers use wireless to increase margins, reduce cycle times, enable lean, and improve equipment productivity. While pervasive wireless connects sensors, tools, robots, AGVs, and RFID devices, it also enables mobility....

June 27, 2017

WE ARE CISCO

Cisco Culture in Four Hashtags

3 min read

Employee Neil H. shares why he loves Cisco Culture in four hashtags from around the Cisco universe.

February 16, 2017

MANUFACTURING

Come Together: Cost Savings Unite IT and Operations

2 min read

IT and OT use many of the same terms; however, they do not speak the same language. Our research shows not only do IT and OT not speak the same language, each organization prioritizes the same terms in the opposite order of each other.

October 25, 2016

MANUFACTURING

The risk of doing nothing

2 min read

Manufacturers are increasingly being targeted not just by traditional malicious actors such as hackers and cyber-criminals, but by competing companies and nations engaged in corporate espionage. See how to protect your company.

June 21, 2016

MANUFACTURING

Getting a Single Source of Truth for Your Data

2 min read

There’s never been a better time to stop watching your data and allow dashboards and mobile interfaces to tell you when to take action.