Steve Steinhilber

Steve Steinhilber is vice president of Cisco’s Industry Solutions Group - Ecosystems, responsible for developing relationships with partners accelerating Cisco’s entry into new markets. Today ISG-E is developing partner ecosystems for the healthcare; transportation; energy; manufacturing; sports and entertainment; public safety and security; and smart buildings and smart cities markets.

Before this role, Steinhilber built Cisco’s award-winning strategic alliances program, responsible for developing and managing relationships with IBM, Accenture, Motorola, Fujitsu, Wipro, Microsoft, Intel, Apple and a dozen other global technology companies.

He is the author of Strategic Alliances: Three Ways to Make Them Work published by Harvard Business School Press in October 2008 and was named by Forbes as one of top 40 alliance leaders and featured on the cover of Business Finance magazine. He has been a featured speaker at Conference Board, Joint Venture Conference, the Management Roundtable, and ASAP.

Steinhilber holds a BA from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.