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Executive Biography

Mike Allen


Mike Allen

Director of Channel Operations
Asia Pacific
Cisco





Mike Allen is the Director of Channels, Distribution and Partner Alliances for Cisco in Asia Pacific. Mike reports to Keith Goodwin, Cisco's Senior Vice President, Worldwide Channels, and has responsibility over Cisco's Asia Pacific network of sales channel partners, including distributors, global strategic alliance partners, systems integrators and resellers. He is responsible for driving the strategy and development of the more than 6,000 Cisco channel partners is the Asia Pacific region.

Mr. Allen was previously head of Cisco's Advanced Technology and Field Operations teams for the United States South Enterprise Area. He joined Cisco seven years ago when Cisco acquired Fibex Systems where he was Vice President of Sales. Mr. Allen has had two previous roles in the Asia Pacific theater including two years in Tokyo Japan. Mr. Allen is based in Singapore.

Mr. Allen has over sixteen years experience in direct and indirect sales, operations, marketing and business and market development. He has held leadership roles in the Service Provider, Enterprise and Commercial market spaces. He has focused throughout his career on delivering business relevance based on network solutions.