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Ben Dawson
Ben Dawson is the Senior Vice President of Cisco Australia & New Zealand, responsible for delivering market leadership through the innovative use and application of Cisco technologies and services – all to help securely connect everything to make anything possible for customers and partners.
He leads a talented and diverse team across sales and marketing, customer experience, engineering and operations, including strategic country growth and
investment initiatives. While leading the team, Cisco Australia has been recognised as the #1 best place to work by Best Place to Work for five years in a row. Cisco New Zealand is also Great Place to Work certified.
Ben is committed to driving the most trusted customer experience in the industry through Cisco’s innovation, choice and amazing people. Australia is home, but he spent six years living in the heart of Silicon Valley.
While in the United States of America, Ben was the Vice President of Sales for Cisco’s Webscale business with responsibility for managing the global relationship with some of the world’s largest web and cloud companies including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple. Ben shaped Cisco’s strategy in partnering with these leading brands to drive mutual success in serving joint customers.
Since joining Cisco in 1998, Ben has served in a variety of sales roles spanning enterprise, public sector, commercial, channels and service provider in both the US and Australia. Prior to Cisco, Ben spent his career in sales with systems integrators and telcos.
Ben holds a bachelor’s degree in international Trade from Monash University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and two children.
Ben Dawson is the Senior Vice President of Cisco Australia & New Zealand, responsible for delivering market leadership through the innovative use and application of Cisco technologies and services – all to help securely connect everything to make anything possible for customers and partners.
He leads a talented and diverse team across sales and marketing, customer experience, engineering and operations, including strategic country growth and
investment initiatives. While leading the team, Cisco Australia has been recognised as the #1 best place to work by Best Place to Work for five years in a row. Cisco New Zealand is also Great Place to Work certified.
Ben is committed to driving the most trusted customer experience in the industry through Cisco’s innovation, choice and amazing people. Australia is home, but he spent six years living in the heart of Silicon Valley.
While in the United States of America, Ben was the Vice President of Sales for Cisco’s Webscale business with responsibility for managing the global relationship with some of the world’s largest web and cloud companies including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple. Ben shaped Cisco’s strategy in partnering with these leading brands to drive mutual success in serving joint customers.
Since joining Cisco in 1998, Ben has served in a variety of sales roles spanning enterprise, public sector, commercial, channels and service provider in both the US and Australia. Prior to Cisco, Ben spent his career in sales with systems integrators and telcos.
Ben holds a bachelor’s degree in international Trade from Monash University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and two children.
