As Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for Cisco, Chuck Robbins leads the company's Worldwide Sales Organization and Worldwide Partner Organization.

Robbins has more than 20 years of sales leadership experience. Prior to his current role, he was Senior Vice President of The Americas, Cisco's largest geographic region, where he led more than 8500 employees in the United States, Canada, and Latin America.

Prior to leading The Americas, Robbins was Senior Vice President of U.S. Enterprise, Commercial and Canada, and from 2007 to 2009, he led the U.S. Commercial sales organization, one of the largest growth segments in the company.

From 2003 to 2007, Robbins led the U.S. and Canada channel organization, where he was instrumental in building a world-class partner program for Cisco. He was recognized in CRN Magazine as one of the top Channel Chiefs in 2008, and VARBusiness named him one of the Top 100 Channel Executives of the year in both 2005 and 2006.

Robbins joined Cisco in 1997 as an account manager and quickly advanced into the role of regional manager and operations director.

Outside of Cisco, Robbins serves on the boards for Business Executives for National Security, the MS Society of Northern California, and the Georgia Tech Advisory Board for the President of Georgia Tech.

Prior to joining Cisco, he held management positions at Bay Networks and Ascend Communications. Robbins holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics with a computer science concentration from the University of North Carolina.