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Oliver Tuszik

President

Cisco EMEA

Oliver Tuszik is President of Cisco’s Europe, Middle East and Africa region (EMEA). With responsibility for Cisco’s growth, business and operations across the region, Oliver’s focus is on driving strategies which deliver on customers’ technology and sustainability transformation requirements and help to close the digital divide. Under his leadership and working closely with a regional ecosystem of partners, Cisco’s EMEA region delivers over $13bn annually and represents more than a quarter of Cisco’s revenue. Prior to his current role, Tuszik successfully led Cisco's Global Partner Sales and General Manager of Routes to Market for five years. Approximately 90 percent of Cisco’s annual bookings are through partners, who complement and differentiate Cisco in the market by helping deliver business outcomes for customers through their unique solutions and capabilities. Tuszik and his team supported this global ecosystem, identifying, incubating, and scaling routes to market to ensure customers can buy and consume solutions in the way that best meets their needs. Tuszik joined Cisco over a decade ago as the Germany Country Leader where he drove five years of successive growth. During this time, Cisco Germany became a worldwide role model for the company’s Country Digitization Acceleration activities and was twice awarded #1 Great Place to Work®. Before joining Cisco, Tuszik was the CEO of Computacenter in Germany, one of Cisco’s largest partners. He led the consulting business, managed partner strategy, and spent two years running their networking & security business. Tuszik also spent many years in international leadership roles for GE Capital IT Solutions and CompuNet. He holds an Electronic Engineering degree and a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications and Computer Networks from RWTH Aachen University in Germany, and is a passionate advocate for people living with diabetes.

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July 10, 2023

PARTNER

CRN Recognizes Cisco Inclusive Channel Leaders in Inaugural Awards

2 min read

I’m incredibly proud of these leaders for being the first recognized for their accomplishments and contributions to creating, hiring, and retaining a more diverse workforce and talent pool.

May 11, 2023

PARTNER

Cisco Partner Engineers are “Owning It!” at Cisco Live 2023

3 min read

“Better Together” is how Cisco and Partner engineers accomplish great things. CLUS offers a platform to recognize this vital alliance and how it accelerates innovations that leverage our world-class portfolio—and in ways we didn’t know possible without this teamwork.

May 8, 2023

PARTNER

CRN Recognizes Cisco’s Trailblazing Women Leaders

4 min read

Cisco is well represented this year by leaders from across the partner organization, so let’s take a look at who’s on the list including our 4 leaders who made the Power 100 list.

May 1, 2023

PARTNER

The age of the partner: A new era of business, a new era of partnering

1 min read

Over the last six months, I’ve met with hundreds of Cisco Partners around the world and discussed the Age of the Partner.  Our partners are confirming they’re seeing and experiencing the same shifts that I lay out in the paper – and having these exact conversations with their customers every day.

December 8, 2022

PARTNER

Cisco Launches Industry-First Partnering for Purpose Initiative

3 min read

Today marks the release of the 2022 Cisco Purpose Report, and while we continue to make great strides in our ESG efforts, we know that we can't do it without our partners. Read more to learn about Cisco's industry-first Partnering for Purpose Initiative.

November 3, 2022

PARTNER

Cisco Partner Summit 2022 Ushers in the Age of the Partner

2 min read

As we wrap up Cisco Partner Summit 2022, I’m not only energized by the past few days but very confident of our opportunity as we move into The Age of the Partner.

November 2, 2022

PARTNER

Announcing Cisco’s Partner Summit 2022 Global Award Winners!

2 min read

At Cisco Partner Summit, we celebrate our incredible partners and the amazing things they make possible. I’m thrilled to recognize 21 of our top-performing global partners and their respective achievements in 2022.

September 20, 2022

PARTNER

Let’s Own It at Cisco Partner Summit 2022

2 min read

There’s simply nothing better than gathering together with a group of people to engage in conversation, share perspectives, and celebrate. This year Partner Summit will take place November 1-3 and I cannot wait for you to see what we have planned for you.

August 4, 2022

PARTNER

Buy, Validate, Check: Steps & Tools to Help Partners Protect Against Counterfeit Cisco Gear

2 min read

There is strength in numbers. Cisco is an active member of the Alliance for Gray Market and Counterfeit Abatement and the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition, non-profit organizations devoted to global Intellectual Property protection and combating product counterfeiting and piracy.