Edzard Overbeek is Senior Vice President for Cisco Services. He manages the Cisco services business portfolio, which delivers unique and strategic consulting, platform, advanced and technical services solutions to customers and partners worldwide. His focus is to help our customers transform their businesses through intelligent networked-based service offerings that support their business goals and increase their competitiveness, as well as ensuring efficient business and technical operations throughout the lifecycle of the network.

Before taking on his current role, Overbeek was the President of Cisco's Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China region. There he was responsible for the overall success of this strategic region for...

Edzard Overbeek is Senior Vice President for Cisco Services. He manages the Cisco services business portfolio, which delivers unique and strategic consulting, platform, advanced and technical services solutions to customers and partners worldwide. His focus is to help our customers transform their businesses through intelligent networked-based service offerings that support their business goals and increase their competitiveness, as well as ensuring efficient business and technical operations throughout the lifecycle of the network.

Before taking on his current role, Overbeek was the President of Cisco's Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China region. There he was responsible for the overall success of this strategic region for all customer segments and partner engagement activities by designing, implementing, and executing a strategy for the region that delivered accelerated results during the period of his leadership.

Previously, Overbeek was the President of Cisco Japan. He was also the Vice President of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, where he oversaw designing and implementing the commercial line of business. He led the mid- to long-term strategic planning for the European theater, taking the enterprise, service provider, public sector, and commercial markets through a sustained period of growth during challenging economic times. Before that, as Vice President of EMEA Channels, he developed the partner ecosystem and strategic alliances businesses in Europe. He was responsible for the activities of Linksys in EMEA, including the positioning and execution of Linksys into consumer and small/mid-sized business customers. He joined Cisco in 2000 as Managing Director of the Netherlands, and was twice named General Manager of the year.

Before joining Cisco, Overbeek held management positions within Fortune 500 companies such as Fujitsu and Siemens, developing technologies, go-to-market models, and solutions for both consumer and business-to-business markets.

Overbeek holds a master's degree in business administration from NIMBAS, University of Bradford, United Kingdom.