Cisco Collaboration Day

Vice President and General Manager
Unified Communications Technology Group
Cisco

Tom Puorro is Vice President and General Manager of the Unified Communications Technology Group at Cisco Systems, and is responsible for managing the company’s industry-leading Calling portfolio that includes Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), next generation IP phones, Customer Care, and Collaboration as a Service (CaaS) Cloud offers for Calling and Contact Center.  These products are central to Cisco’s Collaboration strategy and empower businesses of all sizes to deliver contextual, continuous and capability rich experiences to their customers.

He also leads the recently acquired (2018) BroadSoft Cloud calling portfolio. The company’s on-going commitment to interoperability, open platform architectures, and support for a range of third-party software and hardware enables service providers and partners to create differentiated offerings.

Tom joined Cisco in 2000, as a Sales Engineer, and has held various roles of increasing responsibility leading global Product Management and Engineering teams for Cisco’s IP Communications portfolio including infrastructure, voice and video. He is focused on driving innovation and growth in Cisco’s core collaboration products, putting customers at the heart of everything.

Tom resides in Dallas, Texas, where he enjoys any and all outdoor activities and spending time with his wife and three children.

VP/GM Team Collaboration Group
Cisco

Sri Srinivasan is Vice President and General Manager for the Team Collaboration Group at Cisco. Sri is responsible for the Cisco Webex platform that includes Meetings, Teams and Devices, as well as a portfolio of on-premises and hybrid collaboration tools. Under Sri’s leadership, Cisco is creating a collaboration canvas to empower teams to perform at their best. This open canvas brings collaboration tools together with productivity tools and business processes for a simple, unified experience.

Sri joined Cisco from Microsoft where he was GM for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Enterprise Apps business in the C+E/Azure Group. Throughout his tenure at Microsoft, Sri primarily focused on the business solutions division, bringing thought leadership to help build a partner-based business model for an upper mid-market on-premises ERP and eventually its transition to Hybrid and Cloud SaaS.

Sri was responsible for Research & Development of the ERP Enterprise Edition for Microsoft Dynamics 365 (formerly known as AX) and Common Data Service (CDS), the data substrate for the Azure Business Application Platform.  Sri drove the successful transformation of an on-premises business to Cloud SaaS, a first of its kind on Azure, with an industry acclaimed offering as part of Dynamics 365. Previously Sri was the Engineering Director for Microsoft Dynamics AX through 2013. Prior to that, Sri was the General Manager for the Dynamics AX Customer Success Team where he built the team for the division, enabling the Solution Architect role, and the incubation of Life Cycle Services (SaaS Service for customer/partner driven ALM), which is now a mainstream offering for Dynamics implementations and rollouts.

Prior to Microsoft, Sri was one of eleven Distinguished Engineers at Peoplesoft. Sri worked on the initial web transformation of business applications, with focus on performance and scale. Sri also worked on acquisition diligence, specifically on the merger of JD Edwards into Peoplesoft.

Sri has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology, India. 

Managing Director, WW Calling+CC Colaboration Sales
Cisco

Jedd Williams has been with Cisco for twenty years. During his tenure he has held several positions including the Collaboration sales leader for the Americas. Starting in Cisco’s FY16, he moved to a global leadership position as Managing Director of Worldwide Sales Acceleration for our Calling and Contact Center solutions.

In his current role, Jedd leads Collaboration Sales Acceleration globally focused on the Calling and Contact Center portfolios. Responsibilities include incubation of new products and acquisitions, as well as developing the overall product strategy, sales strategy, and leadership of the extended sales teams.

Mr Williams has more than 25 years of experience working for large telecom and technology companies. Prior to joining Cisco Systems he was a manager within GTE’s (now Verizon’s) Communications Corporation division.

A native of Texas, Jedd now lives in Fort Worth with his wife and three children.