Oliver Tuszik

Oliver Tuszik is Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Chief Sales Officer and a member of Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team. He is responsible for leading the sales organisation at Cisco globally, focused on delivering our customers’ technology transformation requirements and helping to close the digital divide in the AI era. Tuszik works in partnership with Cisco’s Product, CX, Marketing and Operations organizations to ensure we are building and offering highly innovative solutions meeting our customers need to help them achieve their unique business outcomes. Tuszik was previously President of Cisco’s Europe, Middle East and Africa region (EMEA). Under his leadership, EMEA delivered more than $13bn annually and represented more than a quarter of Cisco’s revenue. He is a member of the Executive Council at the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union, working with other senior business leaders, policy makers and international organisations to ensure the continuous improvement of European global competitiveness. He also successfully led Cisco's Global Partner & SMB function and was Germany Country Leader, where he drove five years of consecutive growth. Before joining Cisco in 2014, Tuszik was the CEO of Computacenter in Germany, one of Cisco’s largest Gold partners. Tuszik also spent many years in international leadership roles for GE Capital IT Solutions and Computacenter. Tuszik holds a Master of Science degree in Electronic Engineering, specialising in Telecommunications and Computer Networks, from RWTH Aachen University in Germany. He is a global citizen, living between Europe and the USA, driving the adoption of technology through all parts of industry and society for the benefit of people, companies and governments; and is a passionate advocate for people living with diabetes.