Robin Olds

Robin Olds is a Business Development Manager for strategy and innovation in the Americas Service Provider theater at Cisco Systems, Inc., and resides in Columbia, SC. He has been in the network industry for over 24+ years and has worked within healthcare, financial, manufacturing, service provider, and public sector verticals. At Cisco, Robin is recognized as the thought leader for Cisco's Publicly Funded Broadband program to help bridge the digital divide to provide an inclusive future for all. Robin joined Cisco in 2013 as an Account Manager in US Commercial and transitioned in 2016 to Americas Service Provider. In 2019, Robin was promoted to Business Development Manager for sales strategy covering the Mid-Market space for Americas Service Provider and now helps lead our strategy and innovation in Americas Service Provider. Prior to joining Cisco, Robin has held various sales and engineering positions but most notably with AT&T, Dell, Brocade and Websense. Robin is a US Army Veteran, customer advocate and IT thought leader as well as a husband, proud dad of two boys, one stepson and one stepdaughter.