Nick Chrissos

Nick Chrissos is Cisco’s chief technology officer (CTO) for the small- and commercial-business organisations. He is passionate about innovation and technology’s potential to tackle the world’s biggest challenges and create new opportunities for business and society. In particular, Nick advocates for the benefits of technology at even the smallest of businesses, where their challenges are no less significant. He is committed to ensuring that the latest technologies—including those used by the world’s biggest organizations—are available to help small businesses too. For organizations of all sizes, Nick believes that new ways of thinking—seeing the problems businesses confront in a different way—leads to the greatest potential for success. Nick has also served as Cisco’s director of Innovation in EMEAR, as CTO of Collaboration in the UK, and as the head of Unified Communications Technology in Europe. In all these roles, one thing has remained constant: a vision for using cutting-edge technology solutions to transform the way people around the globe live and work. Nick has lived in a number of countries but currently resides in the UK with his wife and two sons.