Robin Olds

Robin Olds is a Business Development Manager for strategy and innovation in the Americas Service Provider vertical at Cisco Systems, Inc., and is based in Columbia, SC. He has been in the network industry for over 23+ years and has worked within healthcare, financial, manufacturing, service provider, and SLED verticals. Robin is recognized as the thought leader for Cisco's Rural Broadband program. Robin joined Cisco in 2013 as a Account Manager in US Commercial and transitioned in 2016 to Americas Service Provider. In 2019, Robin was offered the opportunity to be a 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 proud dad of two boys.