Simon Young

Simon Young is an Industry Advisor in the Cisco Digital Transformation Group focusing on the Energy and Transportation market and based in Melbourne, Australia. As a member of the APJ Digital Transformation Office, Young is responsible for helping customers define and deliver new digital businesses through go-to-market models and engagement methodologies. Helping customers seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected. He leads the Australian and New Zealand team with deep industry expertise, a clear digital transformation platform and a defined set of capabilities to drive measurable business outcomes.

Young has driven transformational initiatives across various sales and engineering roles during his 13 years with Cisco including leading the Internet of Things (IoT) business across Australia and New Zealand. Previously, he had also led the Connected Energy and Resources team and spent time developing solutions for the Service Provider market.

Before joining Cisco, Young held a number of sales, consulting and engineering roles at a variety of System Integrators servicing customers in the Energy, Education, Retail, Banking, Gaming and Public Sector verticals.