Alexandra Lopez

Alexandra Lopez is Chief Procurement Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Procurement Services at Cisco Systems, leading the organization responsible for the end-to-end buying ecosystem. She also leads Cisco’s enterprise contingent workforce strategy and the continuous digital transformation evolution across the holistic operation.

Her executive experience covers a broad spectrum of functions and verticals including operations, sales, marketing, strategic planning, finance, supply chain, transportation, logistics, and banking.

Prior to Cisco, Alexandra held executive leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies, including Kaiser Permanente and Hewlett Packard where her focus was on financial and strategic planning and serving as the supply chain and procurement integration lead on key acquisitions.

Alexandra is passionate about talent development, building deep business partnerships and teams, and serving our communities. She shows this commitment by serving as Board Member and Past President for the YWCA, a Silicon Valley non-profit community service organization, providing programs and services to women and girls.

In the Spring of 2022, Lopez was named Top 10 Women in Procurement by Procurement Magazine. In 2020, she was honored as one of B2Gs ‘100 Most Influential Women in Supply Chain’. YWCA Silicon Valley named Lopez with a Tribute to Women Award in 2019. Alexandra received the highly coveted Procurement Leader Award from the World Procurement Organization in 2017.