Tere Bracco

Tere' Bracco is leads Enterprise Segment Services marketing at Cisco, and is esponsible for the strategy and execution of emerging solutions marketing. In her role, Tere' frequently meets with customers, analysts, industry organizations, enterprise IT leaders to discuss their business goals and develop the technology and service strategies to reach them.

Tere' has nearly 30 years of experience as a in the data communications industry. She has worked as a technician, programmer, engineer, product manager, CIO, network designer, journalist, consultant, author, and analyst.

Prior to Cisco, Tere' was Vice President, Enterprise Analysis, at the competitive response firm Current Analysis. She has also served as a Technical Consultant at MCI Worldcom designing custom global data networks to meet specific customer requirements. Prior to that, she was Executive Technology Editor and Testing Center Director at LAN Times magazine, and before that Chief Information Officer of a large full-service, multinational law firm.

Author of four books on enterprise and carrier networking, Tere' has for years been a frequent industry speaker, and her work has appeared in a variety of general business and IT trade publications.

Tere' holds an MSEE from George Washington University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University, in addition to completing further professional development programs at Duke University.